 This section briefly surveys four methodological issues in epistemology, each of which raise (different) and contested issues about the best ways of doing epistemology. The focus in particular will be on  (§3.1)  the legitimacy of assumptions we make about the nature and scope of knowledge in the course of investigating these very things;  (§3.2)  what kind of analyses (conceptual, semantic, metaphysical) our epistemological inquiries should be understood as seeking; and  (§3.3)  the place of experimental results in epistemology.