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.

Author: Barry Hallen, J. Olubi Sodipo
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 08/01/1997
Series: Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.48w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780804728232