What is the difference between epistemology and philosophy?

Melina Minneweather: Philosophy is very general term, actually. Use it in everyday conversation and someone is bound to ask what you mean particularly.I sum it as basically just thinking. Philosophy as a scholarly endeavor is really just that. From there it branches into several sub-categories. Thinking about knowledge and how that is obtained is epistemology. Thinking about how things exist and why they are named is ontology. Thinking about thinking is just called philosophy....Show more

Rickey Vrieze: @Theyre hereThinking about thinking is called metacognition.

Sunshine Holets: I give up. What?

Marcelina Schossow: Epistemology is a branch of Philosophy that deals specifically with how we know things. I took a course in it in Seminary as one of the Philosophy requirements. Philosophy is much broader - reality, what there is to know, how we do it, influences, and, and, and.... Epistemology is only one tiny part of that.