Themes, Issues and Problems in African Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9783319821863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 399 str.

Isaac E. Ukpokolo

Spis treści

1. Revisiting the Terms of African Philosophy

C.B.N. Ogbogbo

1. Metaphysics in Africa: Traditional and Modern Discussions

Wilfred Lajul

1. Critical Notes on the Metaphysics of Metallurgy in an African Culture

Omotade Adegbindin

1. An Overview of African Ethics

Thaddeus Metz

1. Transnational Ethics, Justice and Anyiam-Osigwe’s Philosophy of the Family

Ronald Olufemi Badru<

1. Towards an African Moral Theory

Thaddeus Metz

An African Theory of Knowledge

Anselm K. Jimoh

1. Epistemic Insight from an African Way of Knowing

Peter A. Ikhane

1. The Imperative of Epistemic Decolonization in Contemporary Africa

Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola

1. A Gendered Interrogation of Virtue Ascription in an African Thought System

Isaac E. Ukpokolo

1. Women Agency and the Re-negotiation of Gender Depiction in an African Media Space

Benjamin Timi Olujohungbe

1. The Imperative of Developing African Eco-philosophy

Kevin Behrens

The Nature of African Aesthetics

Mathew A. Izibili

1. Philosophy and Existence in an African Condition

Anthony Akinwale

1. Human Life and the Question of Meaning in African Existentialism

Monday Lewis Igbafen

1. Western Specifications, African Approximations: Time, Color and Existential Attitudes

Elvis Imafidon

Probable Limits of Particularism in African Existential Discourse

Wale Olajide

1. Philosophy in Africa and the Challenge of Development
<Peter A. Ikhane
1. Political Philosophy and the African Experience
Joseph Osei
1. Concepts of Justice in Africa: Past and Present

Anke Graness

African Worldview and the Question of Democratic Substance

Christopher O. Agulanna & Peter Osimiri

1. Philosophy: Interrogating the Public Space and Culture

O. B. Lawuyi

O autorze

Isaac E. Ukpokolo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He specialises in Epistemology, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture. He is the author of several essays published in learned journals including the Journal of Black Studies, and Cultura: International Journal of the Philosophy of Culture and Axiology.