This Is Epistemology

If you catch an epistemologist in a pithy moment, and you ask So, what is epistemology?" they might say something like this: "Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that concerns the nature and scope of human knowledge." This isn't a bad answer. Epistemologists do care about what knowledge is (i.e., its nature). As a case in point, just look at their track record: since about the early 1960s, epistemologists have left about a 50-year paper trail that includes just about every attempt you can think ofto fill in this blank :"--