Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés) - Softcover

Hallen, Barry; Sodipo, J. Olubi

 
9780804728232: Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés)
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ISBN 10: 0804728232 ISBN 13: 9780804728232
Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0804728232
ISBN 13 
9780804728232
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
180

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