This week’s slidesHAP 06 — Social Epistemology
Read with the three histories in view. For each reading ask: what is the fact and its evidence (History 1); what theory turns the evidence into support (History 2); what conception had to be in place for the question to arise at all (History 3).
Readings
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. “The Òrìṣà Legal Tradition.” Philosophia Africana 20(2), 2021: 107–128. PDF — §3 on the seven layers of Ifá, the training of priests, and the eight parts of an ẹsẹ Ifá (p. 124); read this before Wándé Abímbọ́lá.
- Abímbọ́lá, Wándé. Ifá: An Exposition of Ifá Literary Corpus. Oxford University Press, 1976. (Chapters 1–2) — Chapter 1 · Chapter 2 (PDF)
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account. (Chapter 4)
- Goldman, Alvin & Cailin O’Connor. “Social Epistemology.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Further reading
- Hallen, B. & J. O. Sodipo. Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy. Stanford University Press, 1997.
- Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962.
- Quine, W. V. O. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” Philosophical Review 60 (1951).