Epistemology for the rest of the world /

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 invariantist...

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Other Authors: Mizumoto, Masaharu (Editor), Stich, Stephen P. (Editor), McCready, Elin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Summary: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 " 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 " have important implications for epistemology? Are the properties of the English word The papers collected here discuss these questions and related issues, and aim to contribute to this important topic and epistemology in general.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages : illustrations.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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