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1. Epistemology of
Science

2. Greek words
2
1 Logos (account, argument, reason)
Episteme (knowledge,
understanding, acquaintance)
Epistemology

3. Definition of
Epistemology
 Epistemology concerns itself with ways of knowing and
how we know.
 Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of
philosophy concerned with knowledge

4. According to Linda Martin
Alcoff, 1998
Epistemology is a philosophical inquiry into the nature of
knowledge, what justifies a belief, and what we mean when we say
that a claim is true.

5. 1
2
Epistemological Requirements
3
Justification
Systematic System
Intersubjective
The reason that
someone holds a
rationally admissible
belief, on the assumption
that it is a good
reason for holding it.
Means something that
applying systematic or
logical sequence and
nature.
Knowledge that is
acquired by a person,
he/she can provide the
proves and there are also
admissions from other
people

6. What is Science?
• Science is a human investigative endeavor whose object is the
natural world and natural phenomenon.
• Science is a tool developed and employed by human when
human interrogate natural world.
• Science looks to understand the natural world.

7. 1
Epistemology of Science
Epistemology of science refers to how knowledge is constructed
within science. The model of epistemology for science involves
examining learners’ interaction with knowledge about the natural
world and making sense of whether and how those interactions are
productive for constructing knowledge.

8. Epistemology are generally
clustered into four streams
1
3
2
4
Empiricism
Criticism
Positivism
Rationalism

9. Epistemology aims to answer questions such as
 What do we know?
 What does it mean?
 What do people know that?
 How do we understand the concept of justification?
 What is its structure?
 etc

10. 2
The function of Epistemology
for Science
 Jacques Martain said “the goal of epistemology is not main thing to
answer the question, but to find requirement that allow me to know”.
 Epistemology teaches us appreciate every process to reach dream.
When a man has proceeded as well as possible, he will get a good
result. Moreover epistemology is a foundations for human to behave in
daily life.

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