Epistemology: Theory of Knowledge, Justification, Foundationalism, and Coherentism
Epistemology (from the Greek epistēmē, “knowledge,” and logos, “account”) is the branch of philosophy that investigates the nature, sources, structure, and limits of knowledge. Its central questions look simple enough. What is it to know something? How do we know what we know? Can we be sure that we know anything at all? Yet each question unfolds into technical debates that have occupied philosophers from Plato to contemporary analytic work. ...