Epistemology for the rest of the world / Stephen Stich, Masaharu Mizumoto, and Eric McCready.
2018
BD161 .E62283 2018
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Title
Epistemology for the rest of the world / Stephen Stich, Masaharu Mizumoto, and Eric McCready.
ISBN
9780190865115 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
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BD161 .E62283 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
121.09
Summary
Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word 'know' and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge. Many contemporary epistemologists, including contextualists and subject-sensitive invariantists, are concerned with the truth-conditions of 'S knows that p,' or the proposition it expresses. However, there are over 6000 languages in the world. Thus, it is not clear why we should think that subtle facts about the English verb 'know' have important implications for epistemology. Are the properties of the English word 'know' and sentences of the form 'S knows that p' shared in their translations into most or all other languages? This, what has been termed the universality thesis, raises many novel questions in the field of epistemology, whether it turns out to be true or false.
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Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word 'know' and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge. Many contemporary epistemologists, including contextualists and subject-sensitive invariantists, are concerned with the truth-conditions of 'S knows that p,' or the proposition it expresses. However, there are over 6000 languages in the world. Thus, it is not clear why we should think that subtle facts about the English verb 'know' have important implications for epistemology. Are the properties of the English word 'know' and sentences of the form 'S knows that p' shared in their translations into most or all other languages? This, what has been termed the universality thesis, raises many novel questions in the field of epistemology, whether it turns out to be true or false.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 20, 2018).
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