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    An analysis of some contemporary alternativies to traditional epistemology
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2009) Udefi, Amaechi
    In this essay, attempt is made to show that the pre-occupation within traditional epistemology with the search for the necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge is inadequate. The assumption here is that traditional epistemologists conceive knowledge as justified true belief (J.T.B). In other words, once these conditions or criteria (i.e truth, belief and justification conditions) are satisfied, then knowledge is obtained or attained. But each of these conditions is fraught with serious problems as pointed out by Edmund Gettier whose three-page article published in 1963 served as a trenchant critique of the traditional (internalist) analysis of knowledge. It is our contention that these initial difficulties and despair with this view prompted some epistemologists to search for an alternative conception which would overcome or ameliorate these problems. These suggested alternatives further reinforce the argument or imperative for intercultural philosophy and/or social epistemology which attempts to integrate philosophical and epistemological traditions into a polylog between various philosophical, epistemological, and cultural systems? such as African epistemology, Japanese logic, Indian thought, and so on. This view is appealing because it is based on the belief that the interdependence of our world? presupposes an adoption of the principle of charity, respect and tolerance for other cultural and conceptual schemes. In other words, no such tradition should claim any privileged or absolute or overarching position over others since they are on a par.