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Title
African metaphysics, epistemology and a new logic : a decolonial approach to philosophy / Jonathan O. Chimakonam, L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya.
ISBN
9783030724450 (electronic bk.)
303072445X (electronic bk.)
3030724441
9783030724443
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 226 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-72445-0 doi
Call Number
B5321 .C45 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
199.6
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 14, 2021).
Chapter 1: Introduction: Decoloniality through Conversational Thinking: Basic Principles of the African System of Thought
Part 1: Metaphysics
Chapter 2: A Theory of Nmekoka Metaphysics
Chapter 3: Metaphysical Themes in Consolation Philosophy
Chapter 4: Uwa Ontology
Chapter 5: Ibuanyidanda Ontology
Chapter 6: The Ontology of Personhood
Part 2: Epistemology
Chapter 7: Curating Some Epistemological Ideas in African Philosophy
Chapter 8: Towards an African Theory of Knowledge
Chapter 9: A Theory of Cogno-Normative Epistemology
Chapter 9: Conclusion.