1st Edition
African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and the Social Sciences
Foreword
Preface
Paul M.W. Hackett, Marian N. Alike, Husein Inusah and Ava Gordley-Smith
Chapter 1: Introduction: African Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Paul M.W. Hackett, Marian N. Alike, Husein Inusah and Ava Gordley-Smith
Chapter 2: Reflections on “The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge”
Fasil Merawi
Chapter 3: Personhood in African Philosophy and the Possibility of Social, Psychological, and Cognitive Science
Bruce B. Janz
Chapter 4: African Holistic Perspectives, the Vital Force Orientation, and Panpsychism
Ada Agada
Chapter 5: Decolonizing the Philosophical Underpinnings of Development Research: The Perspective of African Philosophy
Husein Inusah, Angela Dziedzorm Akorsu
Chapter 6: Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship Between African Philosophy and the Social Sciences: the Example of Conversational Thinking
Paul M.W. Hackett
Chapter 7: The Contrasts between Western Philosophy and African Philosophy, With respect to the social sciences
Gideon Benedict Akoje
Chapter 8: The Fundamentals of African Eco-Philosophy: Its Substance, Sources and Constituent Elements
Emmanuel Kelechi Iwuagwu
Chapter 9: An Ubuntu Way of Knowing
Leyla Taverno-Haidrian
Chapter 10: The Philosophy of Paulin Hountondji: A Declarative Mapping Analysis
Paul M W Hackett and Ava Gordley-Smith
Chapter 11. Discussing the Linearity of African Philosophies
Ava Gordley-Smith
Chapter 12. African Relational Ontology
Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
Chapter 13. African Philosophy and the Social Sciences: Key Concepts and Essential Readings
Paul M.W. Hackett
Chapter 14. A Day of Reflections: A Sociologist's Life in Nigeria
Mirian Alike Ngozi and Paul M.W. Hackett
Chapter 15. Conclusions: Where Now?
Mirian N. Alike, Husein Inusah, Paul M.W. Hackett, and Ava Godley-Smith
Appendix 1: Reading List on the Relationship Between African Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Index
Biography
Paul M.W. Hackett has wide experience in social science and humanities research and is the originator of the declarative mapping approach to qualitative research. His research interests span many aspects of behaviour and experience focussing upon the investigation of ontologies and epistemologies that have originated in the African continent.
Husein Inusah is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Cape Coast Ghana. He earned his PhD from the University of Ghana in 2014 and received the 2015/16 University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor's Award for the Most Outstanding PhD Dissertation in the Humanities Category.
Ava Gordley-Smith is a PhD candidate at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Outside of her PhD research, Gordley-Smith focuses more broadly on both theoretical and applied methodologies in the social sciences, creative disciplines and communication studies.
Mirian Ngozi Alike, PhD, is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, and a Fellow of The Ife Institute of Advanced Studies. Her areas of expertise include Metaphysics and African Philosophy, with a special interest in Cultural Studies and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, she is conducting research on Gender Issues, Sustainable Pre-Colonial Religious Beliefs, and Racism against Africans.
