Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy (Mestizo Spaces) - Hardcover

Hallen, Barry; Sodipo, J. Olubi

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ISBN 10: 0804728224 ISBN 13: 9780804728225

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of translation, the book investigates questions of Yoruba epistemology and of how knowledge is conceived in an oral culture.

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Barry Hallen is a Fellow of the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University. J. Olubi Sodipo is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria.

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First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W.V.O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of translation, the book investigates questions of Yoruba epistemology and of how knowledge is conceived in an oral culture.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804728224
• ISBN 13: 9780804728225
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
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