History of Epistemology

 

Table of Contents

 

 

What is Epistemology?                                                                   1

Introduction to Epistemology                                                         1

Scripture on Knowledge                                                                 5

Greek Philosophy                                                                            13

            The Milesians                                                                       13

            The Eleatics                                                                          13

            Three Alternatives to Parmenides                                                16

            Plato                                                                                       18

            Aristotle                                                                                  20

            Pyrrho, Scepticism                                                              22

            Plotinus                                                                                 23

Some Oriental Philosophers                                                         24

Augustine                                                                                         26

Anselm                                                                                              27

Thomas Aquinas                                                                             30

Later Medieval Developments                                                       35

John Calvin                                                                                      36       

Continental Rationalism                                                                37

            René Descartes                                                                   37

            Baruch Spinoza                                                                   38

            G. W. von Leibniz                                                                38

British Empiricism                                                                           39

            John Locke                                                                           39

            George Berkeley                                                                  40

            David Hume                                                                         41

Blaise Pascal                                                                                    42

Joseph Butler                                                                                   46

Thomas Reid                                                                                                49

Immanuel Kant                                                                                51

Idealism: G. W. Hegel                                                                     57

G. E. Lessing                                                                                    60

F. D. E. Schleiermacher                                                                 61

Albrecht Ritschl                                                                                67

Wilhelm Herrmann                                                                          71

Adolf Harnack                                                                                  72

Sǿren Kierkegaard                                                                          74

Friedrich Nietzsche                                                                         80

Charles S. Peirce                                                                             82

Edmund Husserl                                                                             84

Martin Heidegger                                                                             85

Karl Barth                                                                                          87

Emil Brunner                                                                                                103

Rudolf Bultmann                                                                             107

Hans-Georg Gadamer                                                                    113

Ferdinand de Saussure                                                                 114

Claude Levi-Strauss                                                                       114

Deconstruction                                                                                 115

Jürgen Moltmann                                                                            115

Theology of Liberation                                                                    120

Wolfhart Pannenberg                                                                     137

Twentieth-Century Language Analysis                                       153

            Introduction                                                                           153

            Logical Atomism (Russell, Wittgenstein)                                    154

            Logical Positivism                                                                156

            Ordinary Language Philosophy (later Wittgenstein)     159

Topics in Contemporary Epistemology (Jay Wood)                  162

            Foundationalism                                                                 163

            Coherentism                                                                         165

            Reliabilism                                                                            165

            Relation to Biblical Epistemology                                     167

Alvin Plantinga                                                                                167

Gordon H. Clark                                                                               168

Cornelius Van Til                                                                             174