Contemporary Debates in African and Western Philosophy

Monique Whitaker is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Jonathan O. Chimakonam is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Research Fellow in the Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Philosophy at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Germany.

Part I. Language
1. The Need to go Beyond Linguistic Rebellion in African Scholarship: A Case for Restructuring, Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Joseph N. Agbo (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
2. Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy: Why Conversationalism is a Viable Alternative, Chukwueloka S. Uduagwu (Conversational School Philosophy, University of Calabar, Nigeria)
3. Alterity in African and Levinasian Ethics: A Comparative Analysis, Mbih Jerome Tosam & Pius M. Mosima (University of Bamenda, Cameroon)
4. The Social Nature of the Human Being: A Metaphysical Foundation for Akan Ethics and the Primacy of Duty in Akan Ethics and Chinese Confucian Philosophy, Robert Elliott Allinson (Soka University of America, USA)
5. Searching for a plausible Intercultural Philosophy, Dennis Masaka (Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe, and University of the Free State, South Africa)
Part II. Logic
6. Wiredu contra Lewis on the Right Modal Logic, David B. Martens (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
7. On the System of Three-Valued Logic: Jan Lukasiewicz and I, Jonathan O. Chimakonam (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
8. What Does it Mean that Contradiction is the Rule of Truth?, Elena Ficara (Universität Paderborn, Germany)
9. Formal Language and Philosophy, Ryan Nefdt (University of the Cape Town, South Africa)
10. A Logic for the Natural Language Conditional, Monique Whitaker (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Part III. Metaphysics
11. What is the Essence of an Essence?: Comparing Afro-Relational and Western-Individualist Ontologies, Thaddeus Metz (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
12. Metaphysical doctrines of the Anlo of Ghana and Process Philosophy, Adzogble Roseline Elorm (Université Clermont-Auvergne, France)
13. Embracing Nature: The Survival of Mythological Narratives Based on Naturalistic Experiences at Yoruba Communities in Brazil, Andreza Bispo dos Anjos Santos and Frederik Moreira dos Santos (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil)
14. The Embodiment of Moral Philosophy in Ancient Africa, Rob Baum (University of Cape Town, South Africa, & John F Kennedy University, United States)
15. The African Understanding of the Principle of Cause: A Case of Freewill or Determinism?, Joyline Gwara (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
16. Revisiting Asouzu’s Ibuanyidanda (Complementary) Metaphysical Theory in African Philosophy: Introducing Singular Complementarity, Aribiah David Attoe (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)
17. The Body in Amo’s Philosophy of Mind, Abraham Olivier (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)
18. Event Metaphysics in Lao-Tzu’s Notion of Tao and O?`ru´nmi`la`’s Concept of Ìwà, Emmanuel Ofuasia (National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria)
Index