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

Barry Hallen & J. Olubi Sodipo (authors); W. V. O. Quine (foreword)

ISBN 10: 0804728232 / ISBN 13: 9780804728232

Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804728232
• ISBN 13: 9780804728232
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 13.97W x 21.59H x 1.17D centimeters 13.97 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 1.17 centimeters depth
• Weight: 227 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion & Spirituality
  • African Studies
  • Philosophy

About this title

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.

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.