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8African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge (edited book)Routledge. 2023.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 philosophy, this book explores the nature of knowledge across the continent and how they are rooted in Afr…Read more
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9African Epistemology: Past, Present, and FutureIn Björn Freter, Elvis Imafidon & Mpho Tshivhase (eds.), Handbook of African Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 199-221. 2023.The chapter explores African epistemology by taking a historical approach to examining its nature and character. By doing so, it seeks to explain some distinctive features of African epistemology, such as the focus on cultural beliefs and practices in the attempt to describe the nature of African epistemology and the need to debate the question of method in African epistemology. To be sure, while the former is traced to attempts to respond to colonial subjugation of the African’s capacity for ra…Read more
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African Epistemology - Knowledge OntologisedIn Peter Aloysius Ikhane & Isaac E. Ukpokolo (eds.), African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge, Routledge. 2023.
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37African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the philosophical theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by western philosophers, but this book shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems originating within the African continent. Bringing together key voices from across the field of African philosophy, this book explores the nature of knowledge systems across the continent and how they are rooted in Africans' ontol…Read more
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4Symontosis and conceptual ambivalence in worldmakingFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 9 (3): 1-14. 2021.In this paper, I explore an African metaphysics of virtual reality. The questions that guide my analysis include: how are we to understand the changes the virtual world causes in how our knowledge and awareness of life are rooted? And how do we perceive our lived-reality as we go in and come out of a world generated by the computer? Though I take VR to denote a not-quite-actual world that stands in contrast to the physical or primary world, I show that VR is a variant of worldmaking. On this, I …Read more
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8Symontosis and conceptual ambivalence in worldmakingFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 9 (2): 1-14. 2020.In this paper, I explore an African metaphysics of virtual reality. The questions that guide my analysis include: how are we to understand the changes the virtual world causes in how our knowledge and awareness of life are rooted? And how do we perceive our lived-reality as we go in and come out of a world generated by the computer? Though I take VR to denote a not-quite-actual world that stands in contrast to the physical or primary world, I show that VR is a variant of worldmaking. On this, I …Read more
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Symontosis and Conceptual Ambivalence in WorldmakingFilosofia Theoretica 9 (3): 1-14. 2020.In this paper, I explore an African metaphysics of virtual reality. The questions that guide my analysis include: how are we to understand the changes the virtual world causes in how our knowledge and awareness of life are rooted? And how do we perceive our lived-reality as we go in and come out of a world generated by the computer? Though I take VR to denote a not-quite-actual world that stands in contrast to the physical or primary world, I show that VR is a variant of worldmaking. On this, I …Read more
Peter Aloysius Ikhane
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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University of Ibadan, Ibadan, NigeriaLecturer
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Dominican Institute, Samonda, Ibadan, NigeriaLecturer (Part-time)
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |