Gobbo, F. and Russo, F. (2019) Epistemic diversity and the question of Lingua Franca in science and philosophy. [Preprint]
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Epistemic diversity is the ability or possibility of producing diverse and rich epis- temic apparati to make sense of the world around us. In this paper we discuss whether, and to what extent, different conceptions of knowledge – notably as ‘justified true belief’ and as ‘distributed and embodied cognition’ – hinder or foster epistemic diversity. We then link this discussion to the widespread move in science and philosophy towards monolingual disciplinary environments. We ar- gue that English, despite all appearance, is no Lingua Franca, and we give rea- sons why epistemic diversity is also deeply hindered is monolingual contexts. Finally, we sketch a proposal for multilingual academia where epistemic diver- sity is thereby fostered.
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Keywords: | Epistemic diversity; Lingua Franca; language of science; linguistic justice. | |||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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Depositing User: | Dr Federica Russo | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 25 May 2019 14:29 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 25 May 2019 14:29 | |||||||||
Item ID: | 16045 | |||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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Date: | 2019 | |||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16045 |
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