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Parent topics

• Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Accessibilism [r]: The position that whether someone's belief is justified supervenes only on facts to which that person has some sort of access. ^[e]
• Evidence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hadith [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Internalism and externalism [r]: Names of two contrasting theories in several areas of philosophy, Internalism has a variety of different meanings within philosophy, and for each of these meanings there is a corresponding externalist position which is just the denial of the internalist one. ^[e]
• Knowledge [r]: On one common account by philosophers, justified, true belief; often used in a looser way by everyone else to mean any truth or belief, and also a whole body of truth or a whole system of belief. ^[e]
• Mentalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Philosophical skepticism [r]: Rejection of the possibility of knowledge. ^[e]
• Rating raw intelligence [r]: The process, before intelligence analysis, in which intelligence collection managers rate individual items of "raw" collected data for plausibility and reliability ^[e]
• Reliabilism [r]: The theory that a belief is justified, or a true belief is known, if it is the product of a reliable process. ^[e]
• Reformed epistemology [r]: Philosophical approach which broadly stated is that we have innate, God-given cognitive systems that provide direct, empirical experience which give us beliefs which require no reason. ^[e]
• Virtue epistemology [r]: Add brief definition or description

Epistemologists

• William Alston [r]: (1921–2009) American philosopher and Syracuse professor, influential in Christian philosophy. ^[e]
• Aristotle [r]: (384-322 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential figures in the western world between 350 BCE and the sixteenth century. ^[e]
• Robert Audi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alfred Jules Ayer [r]: (1910–1989) British analytic philosopher famous for the verification principle. ^[e]
• Laurence BonJour [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Roderick Chisholm [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Earl Conee [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jonathan Dancy [r]: British-born philosopher with an interest in moral theory, specifically moral particularism. Lecturer at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. ^[e]
• Keith DeRose [r]: Add brief definition or description
• René Descartes [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Richard Feldman [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Richard Fumerton [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edmund Gettier [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Greco [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alvin Goldman [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Susan Haack [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gilbert Harman [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Hume [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jaegwon Kim [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hilary Kornblith [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Keith Lehrer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alvin Plantinga [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Plato [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Duncan Pritchard [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ernest Sosa [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Matthias Steup [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Barry Stroud [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Peter Unger [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Timothy Williamson [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Ontology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Semantic Web [r]: Add brief definition or description