Pankaj Mishra

Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.

Indian Novelist

Gregory Benford

In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

American Physicist

Jean Piaget

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Swiss Psychologist

Gregory Bateson

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

British Scientist

Ken Goldberg

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

American Educator

Paul Ryan

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

American Politician

Trevor Paglen

I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

American Artist

Imre Lakatos

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

Hungarian Philosopher

Theodore Bikel

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Austrian Actor

John Polkinghorne

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

British Physicist

Epistemology is a branch of philosophy, so it's commonly discussed in philosophical and academic texts.

Philosophical Branch

'Epistemology' doesn't just mean knowledge; it's about the theory of how we know what we know.

Understanding 'Knowledge'

The term is not used in everyday conversation, but in academic and intellectual discussions.

Not Everyday Use

 And I talked with him about this and he said, "This is one of the oldest and most central problems in philosophy. It goes back to the Skeptics and up through Descartes. It's the issue of epistemology, the study of how do we know that something is true."

Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...

 has been allowed to remain standing. At their best, nominalizations help us express complex ideas, perception, intelligence, epistemology. At their worst, they impede clear communication.