Source: Stanford Encyclopedia
History
Plato
Plato’s epistemology was an attempt to understand what it was to know, and how knowledge (unlike mere true opinion) is good for the knower.
Lock
Locke’s epistemology was an attempt to understand the operations of human understanding.
Kant
Kant’s epistemology was an attempt to understand the conditions of the possibility of human understanding.
Russell
Russell’s epistemology was an attempt to understand how modern science could be justified by appeal to sensory experience.
Modern
How our degrees of confidence are rationally constrained by our evidence
The ways in which interests affect our evidence, and affect our rational constraints more generally.