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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.



	Aenesidemus
	Agrippa the Skeptic
	William Alston
	Elizabeth Anscombe
	Thomas Aquinas
	Aristotle
	Robert Audi
	A. J. Ayer
	Francis Bacon
	Thomas Bayes
	George Berkeley
	Harry Binswanger
	David Bohm
	Laurence Bonjour
	Berit Brogaard
	Mario Bunge
	Judith Butler
	David Chalmers
	Noam Chomsky
	Jonathan Dancy
	Simone de Beauvoir
	Keith DeRose
	René Descartes
	Fred Dretske
	Margaret Elizabeth Egan
	Catherine Elgin
	James Frederick Ferrier
	Heinz von Foerster
	Edmund Gettier
	Ernst von Glasersfeld
	Alvin Goldman
	Emma Goldman
	Nelson Goodman
	John Greco
	Paul Grice
	Susan Haack
	Donna Haraway
	Sandra Harding
	Gilbert Harman
	Sally Haslanger
	Friedrich A. Hayek
	G.W.F. Hegel
	John Hawthorne
	Thomas Hobbes
	David Hume
	James VI and I
	Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins
	Immanuel Kant
	Søren Kierkegaard
	Peter D. Klein
	Hilary Kornblith
	Jennifer Lackey
	Keith Lehrer
	Isaac Levi
	David Lewis
	Peter Lipton
	John Locke
	Norman Malcolm
	John McDowell
	Terence McKenna
	Trenton Merricks
	Ludwig von Mises
	G.E. Moore
	Edgar Morin
	Robert Nozick
	William of Ockham
	George Pappas
	L.A. Paul
	Judea Pearl
	Leonard Peikoff
	Jean Piaget
	Gualtiero Piccinini
	Alvin Plantinga
	Plato
	Louis Pojman
	Karl Popper
	Duncan Pritchard
	Pyrrho
	W.V.O. Quine
	Ayn Rand
	Sherrilyn Roush
	Bertrand Russell
	John Searle
	Susanna Schellenberg
	Sextus Empiricus
	Susanna Siegel
	Baruch Spinoza
	Socrates
	David Sosa
	Ernest Sosa
	Walter Terence Stace
	Rudolf Steiner
	P. F. Strawson
	Barry Stroud
	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
	Peter Unger
	Jules Vuillemin
	Giambattista Vico
	Gerhard Vollmer
	Phillip H. Wiebe
	Karla Jessen Williamson
	Jessica Wilson
	Ludwig Wittgenstein
	Xenophanes
	Eliezer Yudkowsky
	Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski



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Epistemology

	Epistemologists	
	Thomas Aquinas
	Augustine of Hippo
	William Alston
	Robert Audi
	A. J. Ayer
	George Berkeley
	Laurence BonJour
	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
	more...




	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
	Common sense
	Descriptive knowledge
	Exploratory thought
	Gettier problem
	Induction
	Internalism and externalism
	Justification
	Knowledge
	Objectivity
	Privileged access
	Problem of induction
	Problem of other minds
	Perception
	Procedural knowledge
	Proposition
	Regress argument
	Simplicity
	Speculative reason
	Truth
	more...




	Related articles	
	Outline of epistemology
	Faith and rationality
	Formal epistemology
	Meta-epistemology
	Philosophy of perception
	Philosophy of science
	Social epistemology




	
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