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1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages : illustrations.)
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.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Epistemology from a Sanskritic Point of View / Jonardon Ganeri -- 2. Knowledge and Belief Through the Mirror of Japanese / Takashi Iida -- 3. Multiple Chinese Verbs Equivalent to the English Verb Know / Kiyohide Arakawa and Masaharu Mizumoto -- 4. Contribution of Confucius to Virtue Epistemology / Shane Ryan and Chienkuo Mi -- 5. Know and Its Japanese Counterparts, Shitte-iru and Wakatte-iru / Masaharu Mizumoto -- 6. Gettier Was Framed! / Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, David Rose, Amita Chatterjee, Kaori Karasawa, Noel Struchiner, Smita Sirker, Naoki Usui and Takaaki Hashimoto -- 7. Justification and Truth: Evidence from Languages of the World / Lisa Matthewson and Jennifer Glougie -- 8. Knowledge, Certainty, and Skepticism: A Cross-Cultural Study / John Waterman, Chad Gonnerman, Karen Yan and Joshua Alexander -- 9. I KNOW: A Human Universal / Anna Wierzbicka -- 10. Theory of Knowledge without (Comparative) Linguistics / Allan Hazlett -- 11. On How to Defend or Disprove the Universality Thesis / Chen-hung Tsai and Chinfa Lien -- 12. Primate Social Cognition and the Core Human Knowledge Concept / John Turri.
edited by Masaharu Mizumoto, Stephen Stich, Eric McCready.
Includes bibliographical references and index.