Ethno-Epistemology as a Meta-Epistemological Inquiry

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370010
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Mizumoto Masaharu 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 先端科学技術研究科, 准教授 (70451458)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MCCREADY E 青山学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (30433692) ; ITO YASUNOBU 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 先端科学技術研究科, 准教授 (40369864) ; SADANOBU TOSHIYUKI 京都大学, 文学部, 教授 (50235305)
• Research Collaborator: KARASAWA KAORI 東京大学, 教授 ; Stich Stephen Rutgers University, Professor ; Machery Edouard University of Pittsburgh, Professor ; Ganeri Jonardon New York University, Professor
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: epistemology / experimental philosophy / philosophy of language / meta-epistemology / ethno-epistemology / cross-linguistic study / lexical semantics / disagreement

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With Stephen Stich, Jonardon Ganeri,and others, we held in 2016 the conference entitled "Ethno-Epistemology," an international conference that focused on the epistemological consequences of linguistic and cultural diversity, which was also an inter-disciplinary conference, inviting keynote speakers from the fields of linguistics, social psychology, and cultural anthropology.
Also, with S. Stich and E. McCready we edited the volume "Epistemology for the Rest of the World", which is to be published from Oxford University Press. This is the first collection ever which focused solely on the ethno-epistemolgical issues.
Involved in this collection is my paper on Japanese knowledge predicates "shitte-iru" and "wakatte-iru", whose radical difference in some epistemologically important contexts suggests the pluralism of the concept of knowledge.

Free Research Field

Analytic Philosophy