Concept
Metaepistemology
Overview
metaphilosophical study of epistemology, studying the underlying assumptions made in debates in epistemology
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Here psychology gets its revenge upon those who would rule it out of possession of important philosophical bearing. As a matter of fact, the larger part of the questions that are being discussed in current epistemology and what is termed metaphysic of logic and ethic arise out of (and are hopelessly compromised by) this original assumption of “consciousness as such”--in other words, are provoked by the exact reason…
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
States what Metaepistemology is.
Statement of these conditions constitutes logic, and is capable of being an important aid in proper guidance of further attempts at knowing. But this logical problem of knowledge is at the opposite pole from the epistemological. Specific problems are about right conclusions to be reached--which means, in effect, right ways of going about the business of inquiry.
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
States what Metaepistemology is.
Now moral philosophy alone contains a code of laws—for the regulation of our actions—which are deduced from principles entirely à priori. Hence the metaphysic of ethics is the only pure moral philosophy, as it is not based upon anthropological or other empirical considerations. The metaphysic of speculative reason is what is commonly called metaphysic in the more limited sense. But as pure moral philosophy properly…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
States what Metaepistemology is.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
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- D. Reidel
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- Philosophical Studies
- Reflective equilibrium
- Transcendental argument
- Jonathan Dancy
- Canadian Journal of Philosophy
- Practical reason
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- Roderick Firth
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- Barry Stroud
- Emotional intelligence
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- Linguistic description
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- Explication
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