Africa - Anthropology & Sociology, Witchcraft, Wicca & Paganism - Historical, Witchcraft, Wicca & Paganism - Modern, Religion - Africa, Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge), Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Characteristics & Qualities

Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy

Name: Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
Author: Barry Hallen
ISBN: 9780804728225

by Barry Hallen, B. Hallen, W. V. O. Quine

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Overview

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.

Synopsis

This is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy.

About the Author, Barry Hallen

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.