Abstract This paper is broadly concerned with the question of what epistemic decolonization might involve. It is divided into two parts. The first part begins by explaining the specifically epistemic problem to which calls for epistemic decolonization respond. I suggest that calls for decolonization are motivated by a perceived epistemic crisis consisting in the inadequacy of the dominant Eurocentric paradigm to properly theorize our modern world. I then discuss two general proposals, radical and moderate, for what epistemic decolonization might involve. In the second part, I argue that the inadequacy of Eurocentric epistemic resources constitutes a hermeneutical injustice caused by an irreducible form of epistemic oppression. I then argue that addressing this form of epistemic oppression requires thinking ‘outside’ of the Eurocentric paradigm because the paradigm might fail to reveal and address the epistemic oppression sustaining it. This lends further plausibility to the radical proposal that epistemic decolonization must involve thinking from ‘outside’ the Eurocentric paradigm, but also accommodates the moderate proposal that adopting critical perspectives on Eurocentric thought is an important part of epistemic decolonization.

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认知非殖民化克服了欧洲中心主义的解释学不公正

摘要本文广泛涉及认知非殖民化可能涉及的问题。它分为两个部分。第一部分从解释特定的认知问题开始，对认知非殖民化的呼吁做出了回应。我建议人们对非殖民化的呼吁是出于一种认识上的危机，这种危机包括占主导地位的以欧洲为中心的范式不足以恰当地对我们的现代世界进行理论化。然后，我讨论关于认知非殖民化可能涉及的两个基本建议，即激进和适度。在第二部分中，我认为，以欧洲为中心的认知资源的不足构成了由不可抑制形式的认知压迫引起的解释学上的不公正。然后，我认为解决这种形式的认知压迫需要思考欧洲中心范式的“外部”，因为这种范式可能无法揭示和解决维持它的认知压迫。这进一步证明了这样一个激进的提议，即认知非殖民化必须涉及“欧洲中心”范式的“外部”思考，但也容纳了适度的建议，即对欧洲中心思想采取批判性观点是认知非殖民化的重要组成部分。