Epistemology

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Basically, this is the study of the possibility, aquisition, and extent of human knowledge. Also, it asks how we know anything at all, and how we gain information (Innate or Experience). Does anybody here have an interest in it?

Interest in it how? A lot of discussions here lately have gone back to epistemology.

I'd say that logic and empirical data are the 2 things that must be looked at to gain information. This is for the following reasons: if logic does not exist then no conclusions based off of anything can be obtained because logic must tell us whether or not something is valid, and empirical data gives us information about the physical world which is believed by most to be real and given that reality is real then observations on reality can then be used to construct useful models for determining the nature of said reality. I tend to reject any form of acquisition of knowledge that does not or cannot fall back on to those 2 as the last 2 are objective but other measures tend not to be.

Certainly - I have an interest in hard A.I. consciousness and self-consciousness - it logically follows then, that I should have an interest in epistemology.

I have been interested in epistemology (to the point of obsession) for about fifteen years.

Oh yes, I've read about epistemology and philosophy of science.

Ever read Theory and History by Ludwig von Mises?
(I don't agree with everything in it. Actually, I only finished half of it and was meaning to pick it up again)

http://www.mises.org/th.asp

I'm also interested in Bayesian epistemology.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epist ... -bayesian/