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No way around cross-cultural and cross-linguistic epistemology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

Edouard Machery Open the ORCID record for Edouard Machery [Opens in a new window] ,
H. Clark Barrett  and
Stephen P. Stich
Edouard Machery
Affiliation:
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA machery@pitt.edu https://www.edouardmachery.com/
H. Clark Barrett
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA barrett@anthro.ucla.edu http://www.hclarkbarrett.com/
Stephen P. Stich
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. sstich@ruccs.rutgers.edu
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e160
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