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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

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Front. Philos. China    2022, Vol. 17 Issue (2) : 212-243    https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-011-022-0009-8
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How Could Chinese Thinking Modes Integrate into Contemporary Western Epistemology? —A Hybrid Perspective of Both AI and the Confucian Theory of the Rectification of Names
XU Yingjin()
School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Post-Gettier contemporary epistemology is different from traditional epistemology in the sense that the former is concerned more with the normative dimension of knowledge, while the latter is concerned more with how knowledge is actually formed. Due to the cultural differences concerning how to understand key epistemological terms like “knowledge,” “belief,” and “justification,” the Chinese-speaking philosophical world, analytic thinkers precluded, has long been unable to appreciate the fruits of the post-Gettier epistemology. Two intermediate moves are proposed to take for filling the gap between post-Gettier epistemology and the Chinesespeaking intellectual community: Firstly, the fusion of AI and epistemology is encouraged, hence, such a move would provide a chance to double-check the putative universal applicability of specific conclusions of the post-Gettier epistemology from an engineering perspective; secondly, an algorithmoriented reconstruction of the Confucian theory of the rectification of names is also encouraged to bring new life to some traditional Chinese-based thoughts on the process of epistemic justification.

Keywords epistemology, knowledge, AI, rectification of names, justification     
Issue Date: 23 April 2023
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XU Yingjin. How Could Chinese Thinking Modes Integrate into Contemporary Western Epistemology? —A Hybrid Perspective of Both AI and the Confucian Theory of the Rectification of Names[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2022, 17(2): 212-243.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/Y2022/V17/I2/212
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