Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft
Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy

Barry Hallen (Author), J. Olubi Sodipo (Author), W. V. O. Quine (Foreword by)

9780804728232

Paperback / softback, published 1 August 1997

180 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.227 kg

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.