African Epistemology

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.

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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

Inhalt

Part One: Knowledge and Knowing in African Epistemology 1. African Epistemology Knowledge Ontologised 2. Knowledge and Truth as Interaction between the Knower and Being: Knowing in African Epistemology 3. Exploring the Theory of Communo-Cognition Part Two: On the Object of Knowledge in African Epistemology 4. Understanding a Thing's Nature: Comparing Afro-Relational and Western-Individualist Ontologies 5. Being as the Object of Knowledge in African Spaces 6. The Ontological Foundation of African Knowledge: A Critical Discourse in African Communitarian Ontology Part Three: Context-discourse of African Epistemology 7. Truth in African (Esan) Philosophy 8. From Ontology to Knowledge Acquisition in Africa and the Caribbean: What can be known for Certain? 9. EòleòìeòÌriì as OmoòluìaÌbiì: The Interface of Epistemic Justification and Virtue Ethics in an African Culture Part Four: African Epistemology in Applied Context 10. Onto-normative Monism in the (hòteta) of Zera Yaqob: Insights into Ethiopian Epistemology and Lessons for the Problem of Superiorism 11. Personalism and an African Epistemology of Personhood 12. Knowledge, Being, and the Case for an African Epistemology