ABSTRACT
This chapter advances the importance of comparative epistemology in relation to experimental and analytic investigation into universality thesis (UT). It draws more interest in comparative epistemology because of the way it helps improve experimental and analytical methods in epistemology. The chapter argues that the development of modern universities in light of colonialism makes it very hard to get intuitions from subjects who were not already partially trained to think from a Western point of view. It shows that a combined effort that unifies analytical, experimental, and comparative philosophy in the investigation of UT is far superior to one that only focuses on either analytical approaches or experimental approaches alone. Experimental studies aimed at collecting intuitions about supposedly different populations will ultimately depend for their validity on non-experimental intuitions derived from conceptual analysis and research about populations with respect to selecting a conception of a concept for designing and testing.
