Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft - Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy

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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About the author

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.

Summary

This is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy.

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• Authors: B. Hallen, Barry Hallen, W. V. O. Quine, J Olubi Sodipo, J. Sodipo, J. Olubi Sodipo
• Assisted by: W. V. O. Quine (Foreword)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780804728225
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2822-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 223 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Series: Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés; Mestizo Spaces =; Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses; Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés; Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works