Handbook of African Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9783031251481 / Angielski

Elvis Imafidon; Mpho Tshivashe; Bjoern Freter

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This Handbook provides succinct and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas within the ever evolving discipline of African philosophy in one volume.  This text fills a gap with its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as procreative ethics, bioethics, meta-epistemology, logic, philosophy of education, philosophy of disability, animal philosophy, philosophy of decolonisation, phenomenology, and feminism. Leading philosophers in the field also contribute chapters on more traditional fields and topics like ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy and communitarian philosophy. The essays in this Handbook appropriately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy and show the richness and depth of the tradition. This reference work appeals to students and researchers within academic African philosophy.

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Preface

Foreword

Introduction: The Meaning of African Philosophy

Isaac E. Ukpokolo

 

Part I: African Philosophy from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

1.      The Multidisciplinarity of African Philosophy

Thaddeus Metz

2.      Doing Philosophy in African Universities: A Sociological Analysis

Stefan Skupien

 

Part II:  African Ethics

3.      African Ethics

Fainos Mangena

4.      Doing Moral Philosophy through Personhood

Motsamai Molefe

5.      Going Global: Bioethics and Ubuntu

Nancy S. Jecker

6.      Personal Autonomy and Shared-Value in Bioethics: An African Communal Ethics Outlook

Samuel J. Ujewe

7.      African Procreative Ethics

Asheel Singh

8.      African Research Ethics

Joseph B. R. Gaie

9.      The Philosophy of Human Rights: The Akan Model

 

Part III: African Epistemology

10.  African Epistemology: Past Discourses and Present Concerns

Peter A. Ikhane

11.  Meta-Epistemology in Africa: Past, Present, and Future

Paul Irikefe

12.  Toward Africa’s Indigenous Theory of Knowledge

Amaechi Udefi

13.  Two Key Themes in African Epistemology

Kenneth U. Abudu

14.  Testimony and African Communitarian Epistemology

Anselm K. Jimoh

15.  Epistemic Restitution

Siseko H. Kumalo

 

Part IV: African Metaphysics and African Logic

16.  An African Theory of Being

Elvis Imafidon

17.  Some Problematic in African Logic

Jonathan O. Chimakonam

18.  On the Relationship between African Logic and African Metaphysics

Edwin Etieyibo

 

Part V: African Communitarian Philosophy

19.  African Philosophy through the Conception of Ubuntu

Msekeli Ngquba

20.  African Philosophy of Communalism

F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo

21.  Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy

Elvis Imafidon

 

Part VI: African Philosophy of Education

22.  Sketching an African Philosophy of Education

Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu

23.  African Philosophy of Education

Yvette Freter

24.  Imfundo, Ubulumko, Nomthetho: A South African Philosophy of Education

 

Part VII: African Philosophy of Disability

25.  Theorizing African Philosophy of Disability

Elvis Imafidon

26.  Proverbs and African Philosophy of Disability

Tafadzwa Rugoho

 

Part VIII: African Animal Philosophy

27.  Conventions, Significations and Animals in Traditional African Belief Systems

Clive Tendai Zimunya

28.  The Animal in African Philosophy

Kai Horsthemke

 

Part IX: African Philosophy of Religion

29.  Towards a Philosophy of African Endogenous Religions

Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi

30.  God’s Existence and the Problem of Evil in African Philosophy of Religion

Ada Agada

 

Part X: African Existentialism

31.  Key Concerns in African Existentialism

Augustine A. Iyare

32.  The Meaning of Life

Aribiah David Attoe

 

Part X: Other Subject Areas:

33.  African Feminist Philosophy

Nompumelelo Marzini

34.  African Philosophy of Colonialism

Bjorn Freter

35.  African Indigenous Philosophy of Science

Clive Tendai Zinmuya

36.  African Phenomenology

Abraham Olivier

37.  African Political Philosophy

Joseph B. R. Gaie

38.  African Philosophy of Development

Monday Lewis Igbafen

39.  African Philosophy of Race

Kenneth Uyi Abudu

40.  The Emergence of Conversational Philosophy

Victor C. A. Nweke and Jonathan O. Chimakonam

O autorze

Elvis Imafidon (PhD) lectures in the Department of Religions and Philosophies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the Director of the Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies at the same institution and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His background is in the philosophy of difference, philosophy of corporeality, philosophy of healthcare, philosophy of disability, comparative philosophy, ethics, and ontology, primarily from African philosophical perspectives. He is the author and editor of several books including Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics (Lexington Books 2014), The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race (Routledge 2019), Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference (Springer 2020), and Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change (Peter Lang 2022).

Mpho Tshivhase (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, existential uniqueness, personhood, and themes of love, autonomy, authenticity, death, aspects of race and feminism, as well as African ethics. Mpho has worked on different interdisciplinary institutional projects at the University of Pretoria that were hosted by the Center for Human Rights, the Human Sciences Research Council, and the Center for Advancement of Scholarship. She was a member of the Moralities Research group at the Bayreuth University in Germany where she was invited as a visiting scholar. Mpho recently completed a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is a Rresearch Associate in the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research: AI & Society Research Group.

Björn Freter (PhD) received his doctorate with his thesis, On Facticity and Existentiality in 2014 from Free University, Berlin, Germany. Until 2023 he was Lecturer for World Philosophy at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, UK and works now as Visiting Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including pre-Socratic philosophy, Baroque and Classical German literature as well as Decolonization, White Supremacy and Veganism. His current main research project aims at the Desuperiorization of Philosophy by developing a radically anti-oppressive moral philosophy, and at the Foundation of Superaltern Studies, a research area investigating the western superiorist traditions and its self-representation as a global moral authority.