EPISTEMOLOGY IN TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSPHY OF SCIENCE

Abstract

The problem to which this dissertation is devoted can hardly be called new. It had already been posed in antiquity. However, in spite of the fact that attempts to solve it have given rise to a voluminous literature, one can say that the results achieved have not given a satisfactory answer to it. The problem has remained topical to the present day. Not only has interest in epistemology (theory or knowledge) not diminished in recent times but there has been a tendency, on the contrary, for it to mount, evoking lively discussions among both philosophers concerned with theory of knowledge and scientists concerned with the philosophy of science.