1st Edition

Ethno-Epistemology New Directions for Global Epistemology

Edited By Masaharu Mizumoto, Jonardon Ganeri, Cliff Goddard Copyright 2020
288 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Jonardon Ganeri is the Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His previous publications include Philosophy in Classical India (Routledge), The Concealed Art of the Soul, The Self, Attention Not Self, and Classical Indian philosophy (A History of Philosophy without any Gaps, Vol. 5).

Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University. His research interests include semantics, ethnopragmatics, language description, and accessible communication. His recent books include Words and Meanings (with Anna Wierzbicka; 2014) and the edited collection Minimal English for a Global World (2018). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

Masaharu Mizumoto is associate professor of Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His area of interest includes experimental epistemology, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, etc. He is the first editor of Epistemology for the Rest of the World (2018).

 

 

"This is a timely and exciting volume, addressing from various directions the question of whether contemporary analytic epistemology is ‘Anglophone’ in some problematic way, and exploring the prospects for cross-linguistic and cross-cultural epistemology. These are important issues, and the present volume makes a compelling case for their relevance." – Allan Hazlett, Washington University in St. Louis, USA