Contemporary Debates in African and Western Philosophy
Analytic and Intercultural Approaches
Herausgeber: Whitaker, Monique; Chimakonam, Jonathan O
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Analytic and Intercultural Approaches
Herausgeber: Whitaker, Monique; Chimakonam, Jonathan O
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The first volume to combine African and Western philosophical approaches to current issues in language, logic, metaphysics and ethics.
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The first volume to combine African and Western philosophical approaches to current issues in language, logic, metaphysics and ethics.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781350334007
- ISBN-10: 1350334006
- Artikelnr.: 64267280
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781350334007
- ISBN-10: 1350334006
- Artikelnr.: 64267280
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Monique Whitaker is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Jonathan O. Chimakonam is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Research Fellow in the Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Philosophy at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Germany.
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Monique Whitaker and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
PART I: Language
1 The need to go beyond linguistic rebellion in African scholarship: A case
for dis-structuring
Joseph N. Agbo and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
2 Revisiting the language question in African philosophy: Why
conversationalism is a viable alternative
Chukwueloka S. Uduagwu
3 Alterity in African and Levinasian ethics: A comparative analysis
Pius M. Mosima and Mbih Jerome Tosam
4 The social nature of the human being: A metaphysical foundation for Akan
ethics and the primacy of duty in Akan ethics and Chinese Confucian
philosophy
Robert Elliott Allinson
5 Searching for a plausible intercultural philosophy in Africa
Dennis Masaka
PART II: Logic
6 Wiredu contra Lewis on the right modal logic
David B. Martens
7 On the system of three-valued logic: An African contribution
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
8 Contradiction is the rule of truth
Elena Ficara
viii CONTENTS
9 Formal language and philosophy
Ryan M. Nefdt
10 Why the logic of the natural language conditional needs a ceteris
paribus clause
Monique Whitaker
PART III: Metaphysics
11 What is the essence of an essence? Comparing Afro-relational and
Western-individualist ontologies
Thaddeus Metz
12 Becoming and balance: The metaphysical doctrines of the Anlo and process
philosophy
Roseline Elorm Adzogble
13 Embracing nature: The survival of mythological narratives based on
naturalistic experiences at Yorùbá communities in Brazil
Andreza Bispo dos Anjos Santos and Frederik Moreira dos Santos
14 The embodiment of moral philosophy in ancient Africa
Rob Baum
15 The African understanding of the principle of cause: A case of free will
or determinism?
Joyline Gwara
16 Revisiting Asouzu's Ibuanyidanda (complementary) metaphysical theory in
African philosophy: Exploring the idea of singular complementarity
Aribiah David Attoe
17 The body in Amo's philosophy of mind
Abraham Olivier
18 Event metaphysics in Lao-Tzu's notion of Tao and ?`rúnmìlà's concept of
Ìwà
Emmanuel Ofuasia
Index
Preface
Introduction
Monique Whitaker and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
PART I: Language
1 The need to go beyond linguistic rebellion in African scholarship: A case
for dis-structuring
Joseph N. Agbo and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
2 Revisiting the language question in African philosophy: Why
conversationalism is a viable alternative
Chukwueloka S. Uduagwu
3 Alterity in African and Levinasian ethics: A comparative analysis
Pius M. Mosima and Mbih Jerome Tosam
4 The social nature of the human being: A metaphysical foundation for Akan
ethics and the primacy of duty in Akan ethics and Chinese Confucian
philosophy
Robert Elliott Allinson
5 Searching for a plausible intercultural philosophy in Africa
Dennis Masaka
PART II: Logic
6 Wiredu contra Lewis on the right modal logic
David B. Martens
7 On the system of three-valued logic: An African contribution
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
8 Contradiction is the rule of truth
Elena Ficara
viii CONTENTS
9 Formal language and philosophy
Ryan M. Nefdt
10 Why the logic of the natural language conditional needs a ceteris
paribus clause
Monique Whitaker
PART III: Metaphysics
11 What is the essence of an essence? Comparing Afro-relational and
Western-individualist ontologies
Thaddeus Metz
12 Becoming and balance: The metaphysical doctrines of the Anlo and process
philosophy
Roseline Elorm Adzogble
13 Embracing nature: The survival of mythological narratives based on
naturalistic experiences at Yorùbá communities in Brazil
Andreza Bispo dos Anjos Santos and Frederik Moreira dos Santos
14 The embodiment of moral philosophy in ancient Africa
Rob Baum
15 The African understanding of the principle of cause: A case of free will
or determinism?
Joyline Gwara
16 Revisiting Asouzu's Ibuanyidanda (complementary) metaphysical theory in
African philosophy: Exploring the idea of singular complementarity
Aribiah David Attoe
17 The body in Amo's philosophy of mind
Abraham Olivier
18 Event metaphysics in Lao-Tzu's notion of Tao and ?`rúnmìlà's concept of
Ìwà
Emmanuel Ofuasia
Index
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Monique Whitaker and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
PART I: Language
1 The need to go beyond linguistic rebellion in African scholarship: A case
for dis-structuring
Joseph N. Agbo and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
2 Revisiting the language question in African philosophy: Why
conversationalism is a viable alternative
Chukwueloka S. Uduagwu
3 Alterity in African and Levinasian ethics: A comparative analysis
Pius M. Mosima and Mbih Jerome Tosam
4 The social nature of the human being: A metaphysical foundation for Akan
ethics and the primacy of duty in Akan ethics and Chinese Confucian
philosophy
Robert Elliott Allinson
5 Searching for a plausible intercultural philosophy in Africa
Dennis Masaka
PART II: Logic
6 Wiredu contra Lewis on the right modal logic
David B. Martens
7 On the system of three-valued logic: An African contribution
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
8 Contradiction is the rule of truth
Elena Ficara
viii CONTENTS
9 Formal language and philosophy
Ryan M. Nefdt
10 Why the logic of the natural language conditional needs a ceteris
paribus clause
Monique Whitaker
PART III: Metaphysics
11 What is the essence of an essence? Comparing Afro-relational and
Western-individualist ontologies
Thaddeus Metz
12 Becoming and balance: The metaphysical doctrines of the Anlo and process
philosophy
Roseline Elorm Adzogble
13 Embracing nature: The survival of mythological narratives based on
naturalistic experiences at Yorùbá communities in Brazil
Andreza Bispo dos Anjos Santos and Frederik Moreira dos Santos
14 The embodiment of moral philosophy in ancient Africa
Rob Baum
15 The African understanding of the principle of cause: A case of free will
or determinism?
Joyline Gwara
16 Revisiting Asouzu's Ibuanyidanda (complementary) metaphysical theory in
African philosophy: Exploring the idea of singular complementarity
Aribiah David Attoe
17 The body in Amo's philosophy of mind
Abraham Olivier
18 Event metaphysics in Lao-Tzu's notion of Tao and ?`rúnmìlà's concept of
Ìwà
Emmanuel Ofuasia
Index
Preface
Introduction
Monique Whitaker and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
PART I: Language
1 The need to go beyond linguistic rebellion in African scholarship: A case
for dis-structuring
Joseph N. Agbo and Jonathan O. Chimakonam
2 Revisiting the language question in African philosophy: Why
conversationalism is a viable alternative
Chukwueloka S. Uduagwu
3 Alterity in African and Levinasian ethics: A comparative analysis
Pius M. Mosima and Mbih Jerome Tosam
4 The social nature of the human being: A metaphysical foundation for Akan
ethics and the primacy of duty in Akan ethics and Chinese Confucian
philosophy
Robert Elliott Allinson
5 Searching for a plausible intercultural philosophy in Africa
Dennis Masaka
PART II: Logic
6 Wiredu contra Lewis on the right modal logic
David B. Martens
7 On the system of three-valued logic: An African contribution
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
8 Contradiction is the rule of truth
Elena Ficara
viii CONTENTS
9 Formal language and philosophy
Ryan M. Nefdt
10 Why the logic of the natural language conditional needs a ceteris
paribus clause
Monique Whitaker
PART III: Metaphysics
11 What is the essence of an essence? Comparing Afro-relational and
Western-individualist ontologies
Thaddeus Metz
12 Becoming and balance: The metaphysical doctrines of the Anlo and process
philosophy
Roseline Elorm Adzogble
13 Embracing nature: The survival of mythological narratives based on
naturalistic experiences at Yorùbá communities in Brazil
Andreza Bispo dos Anjos Santos and Frederik Moreira dos Santos
14 The embodiment of moral philosophy in ancient Africa
Rob Baum
15 The African understanding of the principle of cause: A case of free will
or determinism?
Joyline Gwara
16 Revisiting Asouzu's Ibuanyidanda (complementary) metaphysical theory in
African philosophy: Exploring the idea of singular complementarity
Aribiah David Attoe
17 The body in Amo's philosophy of mind
Abraham Olivier
18 Event metaphysics in Lao-Tzu's notion of Tao and ?`rúnmìlà's concept of
Ìwà
Emmanuel Ofuasia
Index







