Monica Anderson: I am an Experimental AI Epistemologist. We are a pretty small crowd. Since January 1, 2001 I have used Deep Neural Networks of my own design to test my theories about Learning, Understanding, Reasoning, Abstraction and other Epistemological concepts. site 
Science was created to stop people from overrating correlations and jumping to erroneous conclusions on scant evidence and then sharing those conclusions with others, leading to compounded mistakes and much wasted effort.
Consequently, promoting a Holistic Stance has long been a career-ending move in academia, and especially in Computer Science.
Ignorance of these stances leads people to develop significant personal cognitive dissonances which is why discussions about these issues are very unpopular among people with solid STEM educations. But the dichotomy is real; we need to deal with it.
Epistemology is, just like Philosophy in general, an armchair thinking exercise and the results are judged on internal coherence and consistency with other accepted theory rather than by proofs or experiments.
However, the availability of Understanding Machines such as DNNs now suddenly provides the opportunity for actual experiments in Epistemology. post