The Geography of Philosophy Project

Grupo Interdisciplinario de Investigación Mente y Lenguaje

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Funded by the JohnTempleton Foundation

International Workshop
Lima, PUCP
7-9 November 2019

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 7

9:00 - 9:15 Pablo Quintanilla (Philosophy, PUCP), Welcome and Project

presentation.

9:15 - 10:30 Clark Barrett (Anthropology, UCLA), Deciding what to observe:

Possibilities and challenges for a new generation of cross-cultural research.

10:30 – 11:45 Roberto Zariquiey (Linguistics, PUCP), Knowledge and

understanding in Kakataibo language.

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:15 Pilar Valenzuela (Linguistics, Chapman University), Knowledge

and evidential markers in Shipibo language.

13:15 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 -16:15 Stephen Stich (Philosophy, Rutgers University), Epistemology for

the Rest of the World.

16:15 - 17:30 Edouard Machery (Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh), What is

the function of the concept of knowledge?

Friday, November 8

9:00 – 9:45 Emanuele Fabiano (Anthropology, PUCP) Fieldwork in Peru:

Quechua, Shipibo, Urarina and Spanish languages.

9:45 – 10:30 Joshua Homan (Anthropology, Universidad de San Francisco)

Quito), Fieldwork in Ecuador: Shiwiar, Shuar, Huaorani, Kichwa del Napo
languages.

10:30 – 11:15 Josien Reijer (Sociology, University of South Africa), Fieldwork in

South Africa: Afrikaans, isiZulu, Setswana languages.

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break

 11:30 – 13:15 Brainstorming session: What comes next?

13:15 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:15 Pedro Romero (Economics, Universidad San Francisco, Quito),

Experiments: A comparison of large and small scale societies.

16:15 – 17: 30 Luis Andrade (Linguistics, PUCP), Knowledge and Wisdom in

Quechua language.

Saturday, November 9

9:00 - 12:00 Round table: Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom in native

Peruvian languages.

Gavina Córdova (Anthropology, Universidad Nacional José María Argüedas de

Andahuaylas/PUCP).

Luis Mujica (Anthropology, Universidad Nacional José María Argüedas de

Andahuaylas/PUCP).

Samuel Nuribe (Urarina community)

Humberto Nuribe (Urarina community)

Jeiser Suarez (Shipibo community)

12:30 Lunch