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The philosophical examination of epistemology itself—the study of how we study knowledge. Metaepistemology doesn't ask "what is knowledge?" but rather: what are the methods, assumptions, and goals of epistemological inquiry? Is epistemology descriptive (how we actually know) or normative (how we should know)? Are epistemological questions answerable, or do they lead to infinite regress? What counts as a good epistemological theory? Metaepistemology is epistemology's self-reflection, its attempt to understand its own foundations, its own limits, its own point. Without metaepistemology, epistemology risks becoming dogmatic—assuming its questions are the right ones without asking why.
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