Every epistemology (theory of knowledge) necessarily entails a theory of the knower—a philosophical psychology—because knowledge always involves some person doing the knowing, and different philosophers' conceptions of mind and consciousness are characteristic of and directly tied to their entire philosophical projects.

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every philosophy every philosophy that talks about knowledge also has to talk about a theory of the knower... a theory of knowledge and a theory of the knower always lead to a sort of philosophical psychology either explicitly or implicitly

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Great Minds - Introduction to the Problems and Scope of PhilosophyMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:13:01 PM

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