The phrase "a theory of knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing epistemology, philosophy, or the study of knowledge itself.
Example: "In her dissertation, she explored a theory of knowledge that challenged traditional views on how we acquire understanding."
Alternatives: "an epistemological framework" or "a knowledge theory".
The new rhetoric can thus contribute to the development of a theory of knowledge and to a better understanding of the history of philosophy.
David Hume, an 18th-century Scottish skeptic, developed a theory of knowledge that led him to regard both minds and bodies as collections of "impressions" ("perceptions"), the primary data of experience.
Thus, Nagarjuna arrived at an ontological monism, but he carried through an epistemological dualism (i.e., a theory of knowledge based on two sets of criteria) between two orders of truth: the conventional (samvritti) and the transcendental (paramartha).
Christine Clapp, whose two children attend Maury Elementary and are years away from high school, attended a theory of knowledge class at Eastern last year, observing students discuss how historians create knowledge and humans learn to process that knowledge as fact.
On the basis of such a theory of knowledge, the Charvakas defended a complete reductive materialism according to which the four elements of earth, water, fire, and air are the only original components of being and all other forms are products of their composition.
For examples of reliabilism as a theory of knowledge, see Dretske 1971, 1981, and Nozick 1981.
He thus develops a theory of "knowledge-constitutive interests" that are tied both to "the natural history of the human species" and to "the imperatives of the socio-cultural form of life," but are not reducible to them (ibid., 168).
A moral relativist can explain this commonplace observation with a theory of moral knowledge.
There are at least four kinds of critical questions that one can ask about counterfactual imaginability as a theory of our knowledge of metaphysical modality.
For Popper a theory of scientific knowledge was to be not a subjective or descriptive account, but a normative logic of justification and demarcation.
A theory of scientific knowledge was propagated which sought to renew empiricism by freeing it from the impossible task of justifying the claims of the formal sciences.
