Epistemology
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Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called the theory of knowledge, it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional
Bertrand Russell originated the distinction between propositional knowledge and knowledge by acquaintance.
The analytic–synthetic distinction has its roots in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Alvin Goldman was an influential defender of externalism.
René Descartes used methodological doubt to seek certain foundations for philosophy.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. His comprehensive and systematic works in epist
Epistemology
…like ethics, logic, and metaphysics. The term can also refer to specific positions of philosophers within this branch, as in Plato's epistemology and Immanuel Kant's epistemology. Epistemology explores how people should acquire beliefs. It determines which beliefs or forms of belief acquisition meet the standards…
Portrait by Johann Gottlieb Becker, 1768
Kant's house in Königsberg in an 1842 painting
The philosopher David Hume by Allan Ramsay
Portrait of Kant by Johann Christoph Frisch, after Johann Gottlieb Becker, c. 1770