List of Epistemologists

This is a list of epistemologists, that is, people who theorize about the nature of knowledge, belief formation and the nature of justification.

See also: Index of epistemology articles
  • William Alston
  • St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Robert Audi
  • A. J. Ayer
  • George Berkeley
  • Harry Binswanger
  • Laurence Bonjour
  • Berit Brogaard
  • Mario Bunge
  • Judith Butler
  • David Chalmers
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Jonathan Dancy
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • René Descartes
  • Fred Dretske
  • Margaret Elizabeth Egan
  • Catherine Elgin
  • Heinz von Foerster
  • Edmund Gettier
  • Ernst von Glasersfeld
  • Alvin Goldman
  • Emma Goldman
  • Nelson Goodman
  • John Greco
  • Paul Grice
  • Donna Haraway
  • Sandra Harding
  • Gilbert Harman
  • Sally Haslanger
  • John Hawthorne
  • David Hume
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Peter D. Klein
  • Hilary Kornblith
  • Keith Lehrer
  • Isaac Levi
  • David Lewis
  • John Locke
  • Niklas Luhmann
  • Norman Malcolm
  • Trenton Merricks
  • Ludwig von Mises
  • Jean-Louis Le Moigne
  • George Edward Moore
  • Edgar Morin
  • Mioara Mugur-Schächter
  • Robert Nozick
  • George Pappas
  • L.A. Paul
  • Leonard Peikoff
  • Jean Piaget
  • Gualtiero Piccinini
  • Alvin Plantinga
  • Plato
  • Louis Pojman
  • W.V.O. Quine
  • Ayn Rand
  • Sherrilyn Roush
  • Bertrand Russell
  • John Searle
  • Susanna Schellenberg
  • Susanna Siegel
  • Socrates
  • David Sosa
  • Ernest Sosa
  • Walter Terence Stace
  • P. F. Strawson
  • Barry Stroud
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Peter Unger
  • Giambattista Vico
  • Gerhard Vollmer
  • Phillip H. Wiebe
  • Karla Jessen Williamson
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Xenophanes
  • Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
  • James Frederick Ferrier
Epistemology
Epistemologists
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Augustine of Hippo
  • William Alston
  • Robert Audi
  • A. J. Ayer
  • George Berkeley
  • Laurence BonJour
  • René Descartes
  • Edmund Gettier
  • Alvin Goldman
  • Nelson Goodman
  • Paul Grice
  • David Hume
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • John Locke
  • G. E. Moore
  • Robert Nozick
  • Alvin Plantinga
  • Plato
  • Hilary Putnam
  • P. F. Strawson
  • W.V.O. Quine
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • Vienna Circle
Theories
  • Coherentism
  • Constructivist epistemology
  • Contextualism
  • Determinism
  • Empiricism
  • Evolutionary epistemology
  • Fallibilism
  • Feminist epistemology
  • Foundationalism
  • Genetic epistemology
  • Holism
  • Infinitism
  • Innatism
  • Internalism and externalism
  • Naïve realism
  • Naturalized epistemology
  • Phenomenalism
  • Positivism
  • Reductionism
  • Reliabilism
  • Representative realism
  • Rationalism
  • Skepticism
  • Theory of Forms
  • Transcendental idealism
  • Uniformitarianism
Concepts
  • A priori knowledge
  • Analysis
  • Analytic–synthetic distinction
  • Belief
  • Causality
  • Common sense
  • Descriptive knowledge
  • Exploratory thought
  • Gettier problem
  • Justification
  • Knowledge
  • Induction
  • Objectivity
  • Problem of induction
  • Other minds
  • Perception
  • Proposition
  • Regress argument
  • Simplicity
  • Speculative reason
  • Truth
  • more...
Related articles
  • Outline of epistemology
  • Alethiology
  • Faith and rationality
  • Formal epistemology
  • Meta-epistemology
  • Philosophy of perception
  • Philosophy of science
  • Social epistemology
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