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Expansion for Knowledge Criteria

1061 1. Philosophy
635 2. Reason
630 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1246 5. Theory of Logic
1191 6. Mathematics
1062 7. Existence
896 8. Modes of Existence
1531 9. Objects
800 10. Modality
490 11. Knowledge Aims
718 12. Knowledge Sources

636 13. Knowledge Criteria
A. Justification Problems
15 1. Justification a. Justification issues
13 b. Need for justification
10 c. Defeasibility
10 2. Justification Challenges a. Agrippa's trilemma
13 b. Gettier problem
17 c. Knowledge closure
24 3. Internal or External a. Pro-internalism
5 b. Pro-externalism
3 c. Disjunctivism
B. Internal Justification
10 1. Epistemic virtues
8 2. Pragmatic justification
17 3. Evidentialism a. Evidence
9 b. Evidentialism
16 4. Foundationalism a. Foundationalism
15 b. Basic beliefs
11 c. Empirical foundations
8 d. Rational foundations
6 e. Pro-foundations
18 f. Foundationalism critique
31 5. Coherentism a. Coherence as justification
20 b. Pro-coherentism
23 c. Coherentism critique
C. External Justification
20 1. External Justification
14 2. Causal Justification
14 3. Reliabilism a. Reliable knowledge
15 b. Anti-reliabilism
3 4. Tracking the Facts
5 5. Controlling Beliefs
18 6. Contextual Justification a. Contextualism
10 b. Invariantism
18 7. Testimony
9 8. Social Justification
7 9. Naturalised Epistemology
7 10. Anti External Justification
D. Scepticism
33 1. Scepticism
8 2. Types of Scepticism
18 3. Illusion Scepticism
3 4. Demon Scepticism
7 5. Dream Scepticism
30 6. Scepticism Critique
E. Relativism
31 1. Relativism
4 2. Knowledge as Convention
22 3. Subjectivism
12 4. Cultural relativism
7 5. Language Relativism
19 6. Relativism Critique

688 14. Science
564 15. Nature of Minds
499 16. Persons
497 17. Mind and Body
873 18. Thought
841 19. Language
323 20. Action
272 21. Aesthetics
989 22. Metaethics
1002 23. Ethics
973 24. Political Theory
773 25. Social Practice
1001 26. Natural Theory
729 27. Natural Reality
429 28. God
309 29. Religion