Abstract

Epistemological problem has been one of the central in philosophy in the post-Soviet area for the last forty years. This sphere of philosophy had less ideological pressure and there were opportunities for a research work. Here, interesting philosophers appeared with their original conceptions who created their own schools. Live discussions were conducted and fruitful links were established with some special sciences such as psychology, history of science, and linguistics. The situation has changed at present. New disciplines have appeared the existence of which in philosophy was impossible, such as political philosophy and philosophy of religion. In essence, the history of Central Asian philosophy has been studied anew. For the irst time it has become possible to discuss seriously those problems related to social philosophy or ethics. In this new situation epistemological problem has become less important. It seems that the main approaches to its solution are known and developed in detail while one cannot say that about the other sections of philosophy.