Epistemology in Japan: 2000-2005

Abstract

In recent years many significant works in epistemology from the standpoint of analytic philosophy have been published in Japan. This paper provides a survey of such research by reviewing relevant books and articles published in Japan from 2000 to 2005. The literature is divided into nine categories: foundationalism and internalism/externalism, skepticism, formal epistemology, a priori knowledge, naturalized epistemology, evolutionary epistemology, socialized epistemology, and so forth.