Epistemology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Notes=== {{Reflist|30em|group=note| refs= <!--{{Refn|name=Floridiargument|group=note|In the context of a lexicographical analysis of the concept of "knowledges" versus "knowledge", [[Luciano Floridi]] mentions {{Harv|Floridi|1996}}: "the attention to historical data in general conceals a deep dissatisfaction with contemporary analytic philosophy, whose intentional lack of concern for the past I find almost sacrilegious."}} {{Refn|name=Stroudargument|group=note|[[Barry Stroud]] {{harv|Stroud|2011}} claims that doing epistemology competently requires the historical study of past attempts to find philosophical understanding of the nature and scope of human knowledge. He argues that since inquiry may progress over time, we may not realize how different the questions that contemporary epistemologists ask are from questions asked at various different points in the history of philosophy.}} --> {{Refn|group=note|name=AlstonEpistemologyVsPsychology|Some philosophers such as [[William Alston]] say {{harv|Alston|2006}} that "if anything is clear with respect to those portions of the work of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, and Reid—to mention a few—that have been treated in the twentieth century as contributions to epistemology, it is not only that they are intimately connected with cognitive psychology but that they are best classified as cognitive psychology, with the result that extensive surgery is required to extract those portions that we are inclined to regard as 'pure' epistemology."}} {{Refn|group=note|name=Scots_witVsken|In Scots, the distinction is between {{lang|sco|wit}} and {{lang|sco|[[wikt:ken#Scots|ken]]}}}} {{Refn|group=note|name=PlatoCaveVsBrainVat|[[Skeptical scenario]]s in a similar vein date back to [[Plato]]'s ''[[Allegory of the Cave]]'', although Plato's Allegory was quite different in both presentation and interpretation. In contemporary philosophical literature, something akin to evil demon skepticism is presented in [[brain in a vat]] scenarios. See also {{harvsp|IEP New Evil}}.}} }} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page