African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9783030724474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Jonathan O. Chimakonam;L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

Opis

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Spis treści

Preface---- L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

Introduction: Decoloniality through Conversational Thinking: Basic Principles of the African System of Thought ---- Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Part 1: Metaphysics

Chapter 1 - A Theory of Nmekoka Metaphysics ----Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Chapter 2- Metaphysical Themes in Consolation Philosophy----- Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Chapter 3- Uwa Ontology---- L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

Chapter 4- Ibuanyidanda Ontology---- L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

Chapter 5- The Ontology of Personhood----- Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Part 2: Epistemology

Chapter 6- Curating Some Epistemological Ideas in African Philosophy---- L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

Chapter 7- Towards an African Theory of Knowledge---- L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

Chapter 8- A Theory of Cogno-Normative Epistemology----- Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Conclusion ---- L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

O autorze

Jonathan O. Chimakonam is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a research fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies, University of Tubingen, Germany. He is also a senior researcher at The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.

L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya is a postdoc at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and a senior researcher at The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.

Blurb

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Jonathan O. Chimakonam is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a research fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies, University of Tubingen, Germany. He is also a senior researcher at The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.

L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya is a postdoc at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and a senior researcher at The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.