Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
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- Jonathan O. Chimakonam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8913-1434 0 ,
- Edwin Etieyibo 1 ,
- Ike Odimegwu 2
Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Department of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Department of philosophy, nnamdi azikiwe university, awka, nigeria.
Covers multiple themes within African Philosophy unified by their contemporary relevance
Brings together a selection of vocal scholars composed of old and new African philosophers
Applies philosophical reasoning to such socio-political topics as failed state syndrome
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
Front matter, eight practical issues in contemporary african philosophy.
- Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Munamato Chemhuru
How African is Philosophy in Africa?
- Paulin J. Hountondji
Doing Philosophy in the African Place: A Perspective on the Language Challenge
- Chukwueloka S. Uduagwu
The Fallacy of Exclusion and the Promise of Conversational Philosophy in Africa
- Fainos Mangena
How Conversational Philosophy Profits from the Particularist and the Universalist Agenda
- L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya
Examining the Method and Praxis of Conversationalism
- Aribiah David Attoe
Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational Account
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
African Ethics and Agent-Centred Duties
- Motsamai Molefe
On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African Ethics
Edwin Etieyibo
How to Report on War in the Light of an African Ethic
- Thaddeus Metz
Taking African Virtue Ethics and Character Training Principles to the Schools
- Jim Ijenwa Unah
Ubuntu as a Plausible Ground for a Normative Theory of Justice from the African Place
- Victor C. A. Nweke
Remedial Approach to Cultural Globalization and Intercultural Competence
- Isaiah A. Negedu, Solomon O. Ojomah
Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development
- Björn Freter
Totality by Analogy; Or: The Limits of Law and Black Subjectivity
- Leonhard Praeg
The African Philosopher and The Burden of Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS)
- Olatunji Alabi Oyeshile
Changes, Adaptation and Complementary Noetic Transformation
- Innocent I. Asouzu
Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions
- Austin E. Iyare, Elvis Imafidon, Kenneth Uyi Abudu
The Struggle to Forgive: Some Philosophical and Theological Reflections
- Mojalefa L. J. Koenane, Cyril-Mary P. Olatunji
- Contemporary Issues in African philosophy
- Conversational philosophy
- Problems in African philosophy
- Themes in African philosophy
- New perspectives in African philosophy
- Methods of African philosophy
- Schools of thought in African philosophy
About this book
This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy.
Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.
Editors and Affiliations
Ike Odimegwu
About the editors
Jonathan O. Chimakonam Ph.D, was a senior lecturer (2016-2018) at the University of Calabar, Nigeria and is now at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the convener of the professional African philosophy society, The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP) and the founding editor of Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions . He is winner of the Jens Jacobsen Research Award for Outstanding Research in Philosophy. He is the African philosophy Area Editor in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Jonathan propounded the theories of Ezumezu logic and Conversational thinking.
Edwin Etieyibo , Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, writing a dissertation on David Gauthier’s Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession, which presents a critical examination of Gauthier’s account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility. He taught for a number of years at Athabasca University and the University of Alberta before moving to the University of the Witwatersrand. His teaching and research interest broadly covers ethics, social and political philosophy, social contract theories, history of philosophy, philosophy of education and children, and African socio-political economics and philosophy.
Ike Odimegwu, PhD. is a Professor of Philosophy at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He is widely published in learned journals and international presses. He is currently the Dean of Postgraduate School at his university.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title : Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
Editors : Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Edwin Etieyibo, Ike Odimegwu
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70436-0
Publisher : Springer Cham
eBook Packages : Religion and Philosophy , Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information : The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-030-70435-3 Published: 07 November 2021
Softcover ISBN : 978-3-030-70438-4 Published: 07 November 2022
eBook ISBN : 978-3-030-70436-0 Published: 06 November 2021
Edition Number : 1
Number of Pages : XXII, 353
Topics : Philosophy, general , African History
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This a 2007 version of a Study Guide the UNISA Philosophy Dept has used to introduce to students since 2007. It is intended to be used with a textbook it was written for published in 2002 under Oxford University Press as Philosophy from Africa: A Text with Readings and then since 2003 by Routledge as The African Philosophy Reader under the editorship of Coetzee and Roux . The latter version of the text is available online as a free pdf file download if you just type the title correctly . I make this publicly available with the hope of reaching students and interested readers beyond those formally registered with us. Another resource of great value is Barry Hallen's A Short History of African Philosophy which may be obtained at bookstores.
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