W. V. Quine is one of the most prominent advocates of the naturalistic approach to epistemology and he argues that epistemology should be naturalized and transformed into a sub-discipline of psychology and hence a chapter in science. In his famous paper " Epistemology Naturalized, " Quine starts to compare epistemology with the logical and set-theoretical studies of the foundations of mathemati...

Personal epistemology and information management activity can deeply affect each other; the links between them are attracting more and more attention. By comparing with the organizational information management, the connections between PIM (personal information management) and PKM (personal knowledge management) are analyzed. Based on the development of PIM, a new personal epistemology model is...

Bayesian epistemology addresses epistemological problems with the help of the mathematical theory of probability. It turns out that the probability calculus is especially suited to represent degrees of belief (credences) and to deal with questions of belief change, confirmation, evidence, justification, and coherence. Compared to the informal discussions in traditional epistemology, Bayesian ep...

virtue epistemology is a class of recent approaches to epistemologythat, in contrast with analytic epistemology, focuses on epistemicevaluation of persons’ properties, rather than properties of beliefs.this paper seeks to explain the nature of virtue epistemology as wellas its main approaches. explaining the nature of epistemic virtue as areliable belief-forming faculty and the character traits...

In Malayalam there are two prevailing orthographies traditional and reformed both are written as digital text using same Malayalam encoding. Today the difference between them is manifested by both spelling and typographic conventions (i.e., renderings). Traditional orthography rendering accommodates a lot more C2-conjoining ligatures, while reformed orthography would instead use nominal con...

This paper examines the influence of racial epistemologies on social science research methods and knowledge production. Neo-liberal understandings of positivism and the institutional power that perpetuates them are criticized in favor of epistemological diversity in the academy. Drawing on the insider/outsider debate in sociology, particularly the dialogue with the “new Black sociology” movemen...

Formal epistemology is the study of crucial concepts in general or mainstream epistemology including knowledge, belief (-change), certainty, rationality, reasoning, decision, justification, learning, agent interaction and information processing using a spread of different formal tools. These formal tools may be drawn from fields such as logic, probability theory, game theory, decision theory, f...

Ernest Sosa has long defended bi-level virtue epistemology on the grounds that it offers the best overall treatment of epistemology’s central issues. A surprising number of problems “yield to” the approach (Sosa 1991: 9). Sosa applies bi-level virtue epistemology to diagnose and bypass ongoing disputes in contemporary epistemology, including the disputes between foundationalists and coherentist...

In Malayalam there are two prevailing orthographies traditional and reformed both are written as digital text using same Malayalam encoding. Today the difference between them is manifested by both spelling and typographic conventions (i.e., renderings). Traditional orthography rendering accommodates a lot more C2-conjoining ligatures, while reformed orthography would instead use nominal con...