Outline of Epistemology - Branches of Epistemology

Branches of Epistemology

  • Alethiology – the study of the nature of truth
  • Formal epistemology – subdiscipline of epistemology that uses formal methods from logic, probability theory and computability theory to elucidate traditional epistemic problems.
  • Meta-epistemology – metaphilosophical study of the subject, matter, methods and aims of epistemology and of approaches to understanding and structuring our knowledge of knowledge itself.
  • Social epistemology

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