List of epistemologists

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This is a list of epistemologists, that is, people who theorize about the nature of knowledge, belief formation and the nature of justification. This list is by necessity incomplete, since countless other philosophers also deal with epistemological issues in their work.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

## Ancient philosophy

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* Aenesidemus
* Augustine of Hippo
* Agrippa the Skeptic
* Aristotle
* Democritus
* Epicurus
* Heraclitus
* Mencius
* Mozi
* Nausiphanes
* Parmenides
* Plato
* Protagoras
* Pyrrho
* Sextus Empiricus
* Socrates
* Theodorus the Atheist
* Theophrastus
* Timon of Phlius
* Zeno of Citium
* Xenophanes

## Medieval philosophy

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* Thomas Aquinas
* Avicenna
* Averroes
* Roger Bacon
* Al-Farabi
* Marsilio Ficino
* Gaṅgeśa
* Al-Ghazali
* Al-Kindi
* Francisco Suárez
* Ibn Taymiyya
* William of Ockham

## Modern philosophy

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* Francis Bacon
* Thomas Bayes
* Pierre Bayle
* George Berkeley
* William Kingdon Clifford
* René Descartes
* John Dewey
* James Frederick Ferrier
* G.W.F. Hegel
* Thomas Hobbes
* David Hume
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* John Locke
* Michel de Montaigne
* William James
* Immanuel Kant
* Søren Kierkegaard
* Nicolas Malebranche
* Charles Sanders Peirce
* Karl Leonhard Reinhold
* George Santayana
* Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
* F. C. S. Schiller
* Friedrich Schlegel
* Friedrich Schleiermacher
* Baruch Spinoza
* Rudolf Steiner
* Giambattista Vico

## Contemporary philosophy

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* William Alston
* G. E. M. Anscombe
* Robert Audi
* A. J. Ayer
* Gregory Bateson
* Harry Binswanger
* Laurence Bonjour
* Mario Bunge
* Jonathan Dancy
* Gilles Deleuze
* Keith DeRose
* Fred Dretske
* Margaret Elizabeth Egan
* Catherine Elgin
* Paul Feyerabend
* Richard Fumerton
* Edmund Gettier
* Ernst von Glasersfeld
* Alvin Goldman
* Nelson Goodman
* Paul Grice
* Susan Haack
* Sandra Harding
* Gilbert Harman
* Sally Haslanger
* John Hawthorne
* Friedrich A. Hayek
* Carl Hempel
* Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins
* Peter D. Klein
* Hilary Kornblith
* Thomas Kuhn
* Jennifer Lackey
* Keith Lehrer
* Isaac Levi
* David Deutsch
* David Lewis
* Peter Lipton
* John McDowell
* G.E. Moore
* Robert Nozick
* George Pappas
* Jean Piaget
* Alvin Plantinga
* Karl Popper
* Duncan Pritchard
* Hilary Putnam
* W.V.O. Quine
* Ayn Rand
* Sherrilyn Roush
* Bertrand Russell
* Susanna Schellenberg
* John Searle
* Susanna Siegel
* Ernest Sosa
* Richard Clyde Taylor[1][2][3]
* Walter Terence Stace
* Colin Murray Turbayne
* P. F. Strawson
* Barry Stroud
* Nassim Nicholas Taleb
* Peter Unger
* Gerhard Vollmer
* Jules Vuillemin
* Phillip H. Wiebe
* Jessica Wilson
* Karla Jessen Williamson
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski

## References

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1. ^ "The Review of Metaphysics"; "Dare to be Wise" Vol. 21 No. 4 (June 1968) pp.615-629 "Dare to be Wise" by Richard Taylor on JSTOR.org
2. ^ Taylor, Richard (1974) [1963]. Metaphysics. New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs. ISBN 9780135784686.
3. ^ "Metaphysics." Taylor, Richard. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1963) Introduction p. 2

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Epistemology

Epistemologists|

* William Alston
* Aquinas
* Robert Audi
* Augustine
* A. J. Ayer
* George Berkeley
* Laurence BonJour
* Gilles Deleuze
* Keith DeRose
* René Descartes
* John Dewey
* Fred Dretske
* Edmund Gettier
* Alvin Goldman
* Nelson Goodman
* Paul Grice
* Anil Gupta
* Susan Haack
* David Hume
* Immanuel Kant
* Søren Kierkegaard
* Peter Klein
* Saul Kripke
* Hilary Kornblith
* David Lewis
* John Locke
* G. E. Moore
* John McDowell
* Robert Nozick
* Alvin Plantinga
* Plato
* Duncan Pritchard
* James Pryor
* Hilary Putnam
* W. V. O. Quine
* Thomas Reid
* Bertrand Russell
* Gilbert Ryle
* Wilfrid Sellars
* Susanna Siegel
* Ernest Sosa
* P. F. Strawson
* Baruch Spinoza
* Timothy Williamson
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Nicholas Wolterstorff
* Vienna Circle
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Theories|

* Coherentism
* Constructivism
* Contextualism
* Empiricism
* Evolutionary epistemology
* Fallibilism
* Feminist epistemology
* Fideism
* Foundationalism
* Holism
* Infinitism
* Innatism
* Naïve realism
* Naturalized epistemology
* Phenomenalism
* Positivism
* Rationalism
* Reductionism
* Reliabilism
* Representational realism
* Skepticism
* Transcendental idealism

Concepts|

* A priori knowledge
* A posteriori knowledge
* Analysis
* Analytic–synthetic distinction
* Belief
* Certainty
* Common sense
* Descriptive knowledge
* Exploratory thought
* Epistemic injustice
* Epistemic virtue
* Gettier problem
* Induction
* Internalism and externalism
* Justification
* Knowledge
* Meta
* Objectivity
* Privileged access
* Problem of induction
* Problem of other minds
* Perception
* Procedural knowledge
* Proposition
* Regress argument
* Simplicity
* Truth
* Uncertainty

Related articles|

* Faith and rationality
* Formal epistemology
* Metaepistemology
* Philosophy of perception
* Philosophy of science
* Social epistemology
* Virtue epistemology

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