epistemology
Theory of knowledge and justification across the Western philosophical tradition. Covers the tripartite analysis (justified true belief), Gettier problems, foundationalism vs. coherentism vs. reliabilism, skepticism (Cartesian and external world), rationalism vs. empiricism, Kant's synthesis, social and feminist epistemology, pragmatist epistemology, naturalized epistemology, and philosophy of science (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend). Use when analyzing claims about knowledge, evidence, certainty, justification, or scientific method.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill epistemology --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Epistemology Epistemology is the study of knowledge — what it is, how we get it, and how we can tell genuine knowledge from mere belief. It asks: What can we know? How can we justify our beliefs? Is certainty possible? These questions are not academic curiosities — they underpin every scientific claim, every legal verdict, every decision made under uncertainty. **Agent affinity:** aristotle (logic and epistemology, Opus), beauvoir (existentialism and phenomenology, Opus) **Concept IDs:** philo-epistemology-basics, philo-knowledge-justification, philo-empiricism-rationalism ## The Epistemology Landscape at a Glance | # | Domain | Core question | Key thinkers | |---|--------|---------------|--------------| | 1 | Tripartite analysis | What is knowledge? | Plato, Gettier | | 2 | Theories of justification | What makes beliefs justified? | Descartes, BonJour, Goldman | | 3 | Skepticism | Can we know anything at all? | Descartes, Hume, Putnam | | 4 | Rationalism vs. empiricism | Where does knowledge come from? | Descartes, Locke, Hume, Leibniz | | 5 | Kant's synthesis | How do mind and world cooperate? | Kant | | 6 | Social epistemology | How does knowledge depend on others? | Fricker,
- The Epistemology Landscape at a Glance
- 1 — The Tripartite Theory of Knowledge
- Gettier Problems (1963)
- Post-Gettier Responses
- 2 — Theories of Justification
- Foundationalism
- Coherentism
- Reliabilism
- 3 — Skepticism
- Cartesian Skepticism
- Responses to Skepticism
- 4 — Rationalism vs. Empiricism
- The Great Debate
- Descartes' Rationalism
What does the epistemology skill do?
Theory of knowledge and justification across the Western philosophical tradition. Covers the tripartite analysis (justified true belief), Gettier problems, foundationalism vs. coherentism vs. reliabilism, skepticism (Cartesian and external world), rationalism vs. empiricism, Kant's synthesis, social and feminist epistemology, pragmatist epistemology, naturalized epistemology, and philosophy of science (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend). Use when analyzing claims about knowledge, evidence, certainty, justification, or scientific method.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill epistemology --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.