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Zusatztext The volume represents a significant advancement to the epistemological discussions involving the universality thesis.Because it challenges traditional universalist epistemological approaches and offers a diversity of scholarship, this volume will be an invaluable resource for those studying epistemology...Summing Up: Essential. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Stitch is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. Masaharu Mizumoto is Associate Professor at the School of Knowledge Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Elin McCready is Professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University. Klappentext Today the use of English is dominant, and even epistemologists in the "rest of the world" use English, using "know." But why, and to what extent can this be justified? As the first volume ever to be dedicated solely to this topic, the papers collected here will contribute to this important topic and in epistemology in general. Zusammenfassung Today the use of English is dominant, and even epistemologists in the "rest of the world" use English, using "know." But why, and to what extent can this be justified? As the first volume ever to be dedicated solely to this topic, the papers collected here will contribute to this important topic and in epistemology in general. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Stephen Stich and Masaharu Mizumoto 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 4. The Contribution of Confucius to Virtue Epistemology Shane Ryan and Chienkuo Mi 5. "Know" and 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, 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 Tsai Cheng-hung and Chinfa Lien 12. Primate Social Cognition and the Core Human Knowledge Concept John Turri ...
