An Epistemological Thesis Against a Post-Modern Autopsy of Epistemology: Kant-Popper-Rorty

This article opens a discussion on the thesis of the death of epistemology on the basis of whether there is a real problem that is the cause of epistemology. While this discussion is carried out in two sub-positions (Popper versus Rorty), it is argued that epistemology has a real problem beyond intertextual contexts and language games. This advocacy is developed especially through the theory of science and it is argued that today's concrete problem of epistemology is a science problem. Accordingly, the two opposing positions differ in particular over Kant’s epistemology. This framework of the advocacy is based on the meta-hypothesis that the historical line of epistemology-theory of knowledge- theory of science is an evolutionary process that diversifies with Kant. Kant is the genetic ancestor of the Popper Theory at the source of this hypothesis. On the other hand, in the thesis of the death of the epistemology framed by the Rorty Theory as a meta-theory, Kant is the historical break and even proof of the death of epistemology. When the Popper Theory is used as a meta-theory on epistemology, two meta-theories intersect in Kant and can be positioned as cousin-theories diversified through Kant. When this hypothesis is accepted and followed it has been tried to show that the hypothesis is very strong which argued that theories of science on science problem has empirical contents and that they can intervene in reality as long as they are true. The power of the hypothesis comes from the concept of representation and pragmatism. Epistemology is a meta-theory that has evolved evolutionarily in its relation to its object, and its current form is the response to the Einstein Revolution, and so epistemology is still alive. This result is a meta-hypothesis that can be developed on epistemology (at least at the limits of this study) and has a potential to illuminate an entire network of problems associated with the problem of the death of epistemology. Also it has a potantial to solve a large part of this network