Rules for the Direction of Mind (René Descartes), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (John Locke), A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (George Berkeley), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume), New Essays on Human Understanding (Gottfried Leibniz) or Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant). Kant placed his central epistemological views under the label "transcendental aesthetic', following the meaning of aisthesis as referring to cognition by senses. As a matter of fact, Kant also used (in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgement) the term "aesthetics', more precisely, its German counterpart Aesthetik, in a more contemporary fashion, i.e., to denote matters of beauty. Earlier, Alexander G. Baumgarten in his Sciagraphia encyclopaediae philosophicae (1769) proposed the word gnoseologia,which gained some popularity and is sometimes employed even now. The German word "Erkenntnistheorie' (theory of knowledge) became popular after Eduard Zeiler's influential paper "Bedeutung and Aufgabe der Erkenntnistheorie" (1862), but this name and its cognates were used earlier. Thomas Krug's, Allgemeine Handwörterbuch der philososophischen Wissenschaften (1827) proposed the label "Erkenntnislehre'. Ernst Reinhold (the son of Karl L. Reinhold, a leading post-Kantian philosopher) in Versuch einer neuen Theorie der menschlichen Vorstellung-svermögen and Metaphysik (1832) had the term "Theorie der Erkenntnis". It was James E Ferrier who introduced the label "epistemology' in his Institutes of Metaphysics (1854). Other words were also proposed to baptize our field: Wissenschaftslehre' (Johann G. Fichte, Bernard Bolzano), Wissenschaftstheorie' (Eugen Dühring), "criterology' (Neo-Thomists), and "noetics' (also NeoThomists). However, the words "epistemology' and "Erkenntnistheorie' (as well as their translations into other languages) are most popular nowadays." /> The history of epistemology - Woleński Jan | sdvig press