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Epistemology for the Rest of the World (Hardcover)
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Epistemology for the Rest of the World (Hardcover)
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Since the heyday of ordinary language philosophy, Anglophone
epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the
English word 'know' and to English sentences used to attribute
knowledge. Even today, many epistemologists, including
contextualists and subject-sensitive invariantists are concerned
with the truth conditions of "S knows that p," or the proposition
it expresses. In all of this literature, the method of cases is
used, where a situation is described in English, and then
philosophers judge whether it is true that S knows that p, or
whether saying "S knows that p" is false, deviant, etc. in that
situation. However, English is just one of over 6000 languages
spoken around the world, and is the native language of less than 6%
of the world's population. When Western epistemology first emerged,
in ancient Greece, English did not even exist. So why should we
think that facts about the English word "know," the concept it
expresses, or subtle semantic properties of "S knows that p" have
important implications for epistemology? Are the properties of the
English word "know" and the English sentence 'S knows that p'
shared by their translations in most or all languages? If that
turned out to be true, it would be a remarkable fact that cries out
for an explanation. But if it turned out to be false, what are the
implications for epistemology? Should epistemologists study
knowledge attributions in languages other than English with the
same diligence they have shown for the study of English knowledge
attributions? If not, why not? In what ways do the concepts
expressed by 'know' and its counterparts in different languages
differ? And what should epistemologists make of all this? The
papers collected here discuss these questions and related issues,
and aim to contribute to this important topic and epistemology in
general.
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