Description
This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology. It brings together philosophers, linguists, and scholars working on knowledge traditions to advance work in epistemology that moves beyond the Anglophone sphere.
The first group of chapters provide evidence of cross-linguistic or cultural diversity relevant to epistemology and discuss its possible implications. These essays defend epistemic pluralism based on Sanskrit data as a commitment to pluralism about epistemic stances, analyze the use of two Japanese knowledge verbs in relation to knowledge how, explore the Confucian notion of justification, and surveys cultural differences about the testimonial knowledge. The second group of chapters defends "core monism"—which claims that despite the cross-linguistic diversity of knowledge verbs, there is certain core epistemological meaning shared by all languages—from both a Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) and skeptical perspective. The third cluster of essays considers the implications of cultural diversity for epistemology based on anthropological studies. These chapters explore real disparities in folk epistemology across cultures. Finally, the last two chapters discuss methods or perspectives to unify epistemology despite and based on the diversity of folk intuitions and epistemological concepts.
Ethno-Epistemology is an essential resource for philosophers working in epistemology and comparative philosophy, as well as linguists and cultural anthropologists interested in the cultural-linguistic diversity of knowledge traditions.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Epistemic Pluralism: From Systems to Stances
Jonardon Ganeri
2. Knowing how and two Japanese knowledge verbs in Japanese
Masaharu Mizumoto, Shun Tsugita, and Yu Izumi
3. “The Rectification of Names" as a Theory of Epistemic Justification
Yingjin Xu
4. Testimony, Credit, and Blame
Shane Ryan, Chienkuo Mi, and Masaharu Mizumoto
5. Linguistic Strategies against Epistemic Injustice
Elin McCready
6. Overcoming the linguistic challenges for ethno-epistemology: NSM perspectives
Cliff Goddard
7. Skeptical arguments, conceptual metaphors, and cross-cultural challenges
Julianne Chung
8. Delusions in Two Worlds
Dominic Murphy
9. Challenges for an Anthropology of Knowledge
Søren Harnow Klausen
10. How to Buy Knowedge in Ende
Satoshi Nakagawa
11. Conceptual Construction in Epistemology
Thomas Grundmann
12. Experimental Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy in the Reflection of Comparative Philosophy
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya & Purushottama Bilimoria
