"epistemological turn" meaning in English

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          "text": "1980, Robert Greene, \"Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature\" (review of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty), MLN, vol. 95, no. 5, p. 1387,\nHe spends several of the book's eight chapters giving an account of \"the epistemological turn\" of modern philosophy, dealing primarily with the thought of Descartes, Locke, and Kant."
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