| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Akan and Euro-American concepts of the person / K. Anthony Appiah -- Truth and an African language / Kwasi Wiredu -- An outline of a theory of destiny / Segun Gbadegesin -- Personal identity in African metaphysics / Leke Adeofe -- Concept of the person in Luo modes of thought / D.A. Masolo -- Physical and metaphysical understanding: nature, agency, and causation in African traditional thought / I.A. Menkiti -- Witchcraft, science, and the paranormal in contemporary African philosophy / Albert Mosley -- Understanding and ontology in traditional African thought / Lee M. Brown -- Selected bibliography of epistemological and metaphysical perspectives in African philosophical thought. |
| Summary |
This is a collection of essays that address epistemological and metaphysical concerns that have emerged from the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The focus of the book is on traditional African conceptions of mind, person, personal identity, truth, knowledge, understanding, objectivity and reality. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, African.
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Philosophy, African. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Lee M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African philosophy. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 019511440X 9780195114409 (DLC) 2003048695 (OCoLC)51984905 |
| ISBN |
9780198027379 (electronic book) |
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0198027370 (electronic book) |
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019511440X |
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9780195114409 |
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0195114418 (paperback) |
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9780195114416 (paperback) |
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