{"id":8,"date":"2024-02-29T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empiricalepistemology.stir.ac.uk\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:50:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/empiricalepistemology.stir.ac.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About the Empirical Epistemology Network<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Epistemology investigates the nature of knowledge, how subjects may acquire and lose it, and the varieties of cognitive success and failure. While epistemology is often characterized as an armchair discipline, in recent decades increasing numbers of epistemologists have become open to the idea that the findings of sciences like psychology and comparative cognition may be relevant to address epistemological questions and have thereby shown interest in empirical research. At the same time, many empirical researchers in the humanities, social and natural sciences who have a stake in notions such as knowledge, justified belief, evidence are realizing that they stand to benefit from engaging with conceptual frameworks offered by epistemology. In the light of this, the Empirical Epistemology Network has two goals: <\/p>\n\n\n\n