International Conference on Ethno-Epistemology: Culture, Language, and Methodology
June 2 (Thu) thru June 5 (Sun), 2016, Kanazawa, Japan
(June 2nd is a day for excursion around the city of Kanazawa. For Kanazawa, a great old city of Japan, see http://www.kanazawa-tourism.com/)
The conference is a follow-up and an extension to the Epistemology for the Rest of the World conference, held in Tokyo in
2013 (http://worldepistemology.org/). Following the success of that conference, we will broaden the perspective, inviting not only linguists and philosophers, but also social psychologists and anthropologists. The conference will explore whether linguistic and/or cultural differences affect our knowledge attribution or other epistemological practices, and the epistemological implication of such possible variance for debates over metaphysical questions (e.g. whether knowledge is a natural kind), methodological questions (e.g. the relevance of folk data, corpus or questionnaire-elicited data), and questions about epistemology is (e.g. whether it is an investigation of universal core of knowledge attribution practice common to all languages and cultures). Detailed information about the submission of papers for presentation will be announced soon. Keynote speakers:
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)
Kaori Karasawa (Tokyo University)
Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
Jason Stanley (Yale University)
Conference Committee:
Jonardon Ganeri (New York University)
Yasunobu Ito (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kobe University)
Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
