📚 Epistemology

How we know what we know: justification, scepticism, and the Gettier problem that reopened the definition.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject epistemology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Philosophical essays concerning human understanding	David Hume	1900	157
	Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung	Arthur Schopenhauer	1819	82
	Θεαίτητος / Σοφιστής	Plato	1921	60
	A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge	Alfred Klemmt	1710	49
	Appearance and reality	F. H. Bradley	1893	19
	What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Language?	Gary Kemp	2013	14
	Possibility	Scott Buchanan	1927	12
	Ideas y creencias	José Ortega y Gasset	1940	12
	Conceptions of Inquiry	John Fauvel	1981	12
	Philosophy of Perception	William Fish	2010	12
	What is value?	Everett W. Hall	1952	11
	The Signal and the Noise	Nate Silver	2012	10
	Kant's Theory of Knowledge	Graham Bird	1962	9
	Contemporary hermeneutics	Josef Bleicher	1980	9
	Reason Without Freedom	David Owens	2000	9
	An analysis of knowing	John Hartland-Swann	1958	8
	Belief and Unbelief	Michael Novak	1965	8
	Is nothing sacred?	Ben Rogers	2002	8
	Perception	Barry Maund	2003	8
	Oxford Studies in Epistemology	Tamar Szabo Gendler	2005	8
	Hume on causation	Helen Beebee	2006	8
	Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy	Edouard Machery	2014	8
	Our knowledge of the external world	Bertrand Russell	1926	7
	Kant's solution for verification in metaphysics	D. P. Dryer	1966	7
	Cause and chance	Phil Dowe	2003	7
	Bare facts and naked truths	George Englebretsen	2005	7
	Rationality, Hermeneutics And Dialogue	Paul Healy	2005	7
	Objectivity	Lorraine Daston	2007	7
	Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics	Jeff Malpas	2014	7
	What Is Truth?	Edo Pivcevic	1997	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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