No way around cross-cultural and cross-linguistic epistemology

Edouard Machery; H. Clark Barrett; Stephen P. Stich

doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001831

No way around cross-cultural and cross-linguistic epistemology

Edouard Machery, H. Clark Barrett, Stephen P. Stich

School of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy

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Abstract

Phillips and colleagues claim that the capacity to ascribe knowledge is a basic capacity, but most studies reporting linguistic data reviewed by Phillips et al. were conducted in English with American participants - one of more than 6,500 languages currently spoken. We highlight the importance of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research when one is theorizing about fundamental human representational capacities.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e160
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	44
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001831
State	Published - Nov 19 2021

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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