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African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge book cover

1st Edition

African Epistemology Essays on Being and Knowledge

Edited By Peter Aloysius Ikhane, Isaac E. Ukpokolo Copyright 2023
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge
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This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by the Western approach to the discourse of knowledge. This book however shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems originating within the African continent. Bringing together key voices from across the field of African... Read more

Part One: Knowledge and Knowing in African Epistemology

1. African Epistemology – Knowledge Ontologised

Peter Aloysius IKHANE

2. Knowledge and Truth as Interaction between the Knower and Being: Knowing in African Epistemology

Anselm `Kole JIMOH

3. Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition

Elvis IMAFIDON

Part Two: On the Object of Knowledge in African Epistemology

4. Understanding a Thing’s Nature: Comparing Afro-Relational and Western-Individualist Ontologies

Thaddeus METZ

5. Being as the Object of Knowledge in African Spaces

Wilfred LAJUL

6. The Ontological Foundation of African Knowledge: A Critical Discourse in African

Communitarian Ontology

Munamato CHEMHURU

Part Three: Context-discourse of African Epistemology

7. Truth in African (Esan) Philosophy

Isaac UKPOKOLO

8. From Ontology to Knowledge Acquisition in Africa and the Caribbean: What can be known for Certain?

Sandra McCALLA

9. EòleòìeòÌriì as OmoòluìaÌbiì: The Interface of Epistemic Justification and Virtue Ethics in an African Culture

Abosede Priscilla IPADEOLA

Part Four: African Epistemology in Applied Context

10. Onto-normative Monism in the ሐተታ (hòāteta) of Zera Yaqob: Insights into Ethiopian Epistemology and Lessons for the Problem of Superiorism

Björn FRETER

11. Personalism and an African Epistemology of Personhood

Philip EDEMA

12. Knowledge, Being, and the Case for an African Epistemology

Dennis MASAKA

Biography

Peter Aloysius Ikhane is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Isaac E. Ukpokolo is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

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