English Explanatory Dictionary

epistemological turn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In the history of Western philosophy, the shift in philosophical attention from the classical and medieval focus on themes of metaphysics to a primary focus on themes and issues relating to human knowledge, usually considered to have occurred during the period from Descartes (1596-1650) through Kant (1724-1804).

Word forms

epistemological turn epistemological turns

Related words

linguistic turn
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