SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY: A JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND POLICY invites
submissions (3000-4000 words) in comparative philosophy or
comparative anthropology of knowledge, sociology of knowledge, religion,
or history of ideas that address the following topic: How important is
truth to epistemology and knowledge? While submissions may be grounded
primarily in one philosophical tradition (e.g. African, East Asian, South
Asian, Latin American, Western [Anglo-American or Continental]), they must
discuss the topic in a comparative manner.

While truth has long occupied the center stage of many Western,
South Asian, Post-Han East Asian, and Arican epistemologies and
conceptions of knowledge, many Western philosophers have recently begun to
question and reject the centrality of truth and develop alternative,
non-truth-centered conceptions of epistemology and knowledge.The apparent
aberrant character of these alternatives is diminished by recent
scholarship in Pre-Han East Asian philosophies such as Confucianism and
Taoism which argues that these philosophical traditions lacked the concept
of truth and thus did not employ the notion of truth in their
epistemologies or conceptions of knowledge. Is truth essential to
knowledge and to epistemology? Do all philosophical traditions possess the
concept of truth and incorporate it into their epistemologies? If they do
not, what they they use instead of truth?
 

Inquiries and submissions should be directed to:

James Maffie
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1781
USA

e-mail: maffiej@lamar.colostate.edu