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16Atuolu Omalu: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy (edited book)Upa. 2014.That African philosophy began with frustration and not with wonder as it is in Western tradition is a radical statement with far-reaching implications. Implications that are, as challenging as they are intellectually refreshing thus reinvigorating interest in the African discourse. As the discipline of African philosophy vitiated in the post debate disillusionment met with a new generation critical fire; methodic, technical and theoretic demands and issues unresolved in the old order surface. Ol…Read more
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14Indigenous African Religions (IARs) and the Relational Value of ToleranceFilosofia Theoretica 11 (1): 97-113. 2022.This essay argues that the inherent value of Indigenous African Religions, which ensures that the belief in different gods does not eclipse the fact of common humanity might be of importance to contemporary Africa plagued by ceaseless conflicts. The IAR ideology contrasts, for example, with that of Christianity which views the Christian God as the one true God and regards those who worship a different God as pagans and gentiles. It also contrasts with the ideology of Islam, which views Allah as …Read more
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13Are Digital Technologies Transforming Humanity and Making Politics Impossible?Dialogue and Universalism 30 (1): 209-223. 2020.My question in this paper is whether digital technologies transform humanity and make politics impossible. Digital technologies, no doubt, are revolutionary. But I argue that what they have done in the Post-Cold War era are: (1) to further contract the spaces between politicians and the people; (2) transform actors from subjects to objects, such that we may in addition to social identities, talk about digital identities; (3) relocate the public sphere from squares to ilosphere where individuals …Read more
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13The end of ubuntu or its beginning in Matolino-Kwindingwi-Metz debate: An exercise in conversational philosophySouth African Journal of Philosophy 35 (2): 224-234. 2016.
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12On the System of Conversational Thinking: An OverviewArụmarụka 1 (1): 1-45. 2021.As more researchers are either discussing the approach of Conversational Thinking or deploying it in their work, one question persists; what is the nature of Conversational Thinking? In investigating this question, I will trace the roots of Conversational Thinking as a theory of meaning-making rather than a theory of meaning. I conceptualise meaning-making as an attempt, through the process of creative struggle, to create ‘presence’ from the ‘metaphysics of absence’ and to demonstrate their comp…Read more
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10IntroductionIn Aribiah David Attoe, Segun Samuel Temitope, Victor Nweke, John Umezurike & Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam (eds.), Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-5. 2023.Philosophy of mind as a branch of philosophy has been growing. With a vast array of literature stemming from Plato to Descartes, down to Daniel Dennett and Paul and Patricia Churchland, there is no doubt that a lot has been said in that area regarding the mind-body problem, consciousness, the role of the human brain, etc. More so, with the advancement in neuroscience, newer and more interesting discussions linking neuroscience to philosophy of mind is inevitable. Equally as interesting, is the p…Read more
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10Logic and African philosophy: seminal essays on African systems of thought (edited book)Vernon Press. 2020.Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought aims to put African intellectual history in perspective, with focus on the subjects of racism, logic, language, and psychology. The volume seeks to fill in the gaps left by the exclusion of African thinkers that are frequent in the curricula of African schools concerning history, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies. The book is divided into four parts that are preceded by an introduction to link up the essays and …Read more
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8Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational AccountIn Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Edwin Etieyibo & Ike Odimegwu (eds.), Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 91-106. 2021.In this chapter, I seek to problematise the normative account of personhood put forward by Ifeanyi Menkiti and variously defended by those who could be described as menkitians. I argue that the normative account is grossly inadequate because it makes some weak and dangerous assumptions. I show how these assumptions deflate Menkiti’s theory, and I contend that a person can be better conceptualised as a ‘being in conversation.’ When one thinks of personhood as a ‘capacity’ in a person to engage in…Read more
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7Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African philosophy in the postmodern era (edited book)Vernon Press. 2018.This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled 'The journey of reason in African philosophy', and part two is titled 'African philosophy and postmodern thinking'. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book…Read more
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7African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women (edited book)Routledge. 2018.This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over women make it difficult for the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the feminine epistemic perspective, to become obvious. Contributors address these issues from both theoretical and practical p…Read more
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4EditorialFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 4 (2). 2015.No abstract.
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4Ududo reasoning in African thought: a postmodern formalist method for logicFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 3 (2): 90-105. 2014.The dominance of methods of mathematical reasoning such as the axiomatic method in modern logic has taken a toll on the independent development of logic as a separate discipline. However, the emergence of other non-standard systems of logic which could be described as postmodernist shows how a radical break might be necessary in salvaging logic from the grip of mathematics. Our goal in this essay would be to propose and articulate a post modern formalist method called Ududo Reasoning for logic.
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2Can conversational thinking serve as a suitable pedagogical approach for philosophy education in African Schools?Journal of Philosophy of Education. forthcoming.This essay investigates whether Conversational Thinking can suitably serve as a pedagogical approach for philosophy education in African schools (primary and secondary levels). We argue that there is a need to introduce and teach philosophy in schools in Africa. Additionally, we argue that it would be apropos to adopt a decolonial approach in developing such curricula, which, among others, could accommodate African approaches to philosophy. We contend that the promotion of African home-grown fra…Read more
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2Addressing Uduma's Africanness of a Philosophy Question and Shifting the Paradigm from Metaphilosophy to Conversational PhilosophyFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 4 (1): 33-50. 2015.This conversation is inspired by Uduma O. Uduma’s essay entitled “The Question of the ‘African’ in African Philosophy: In search of a Criterion for the Africanness of a Philosophy”. In this essay, Uduma coined what he calls “the Africanness of a Philosophy Question which consists in the ultimate criterion for African philosophy. He was not the first to dwell on the Africanness issue in African philosophy but he was the first, to my knowledge, to christen it as such. Before Uduma framed the quest…Read more
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2African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation (edited book)Routledge. 2017.African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy. The issue of the environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies, academics and specifically, philosophers in the sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which give a place of privilege to one thing over the other, as for example men over women, is the same attitude that privileges humans over the environment. Th…Read more
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1Proof in Alonzo Church’s and Alan Turing’s Mathematical Logic: Undecidability of First Order LogicUniversal-Publishers. 2012.
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1EditorialFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 5 (1). 2016.No.
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Interrogatory theory: patterns of social deconstruction, reconstruction and the conversational order in African philosophyFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 3 (1): 1-25. 2014.Africa is in economic and social terms widely regarded as an underdeveloped continent even though we in interrogatory theory would prefer the term developing instead. Its societies are characterized by unstable institutions. Societies ride on the wheels of institutions. Institutions are social structures or building blocks of any society. Repressive colonial times replaced traditional institutions with non-compatible ones ignoring any usable part of tradition and admitting without censorship eve…Read more
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Environmental thinking in African philosophy : a defence of biocentrism using the notion of nma nduIn Inkeri Koskinen, David Ludwig, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli & Luis Reyes-Galindo (eds.), Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Routledge. 2021.
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Jonathan O Chimakonam
University of Pretoria
University of Calabar
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University of CalabarRegular Faculty