Table of Contents
Theme: African Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Fractured Epistemologies
Publication: Synthesis philosophica
Date: Vol. 33, No. 1 (2018)
A special edition of Synthesis philosophica on "African Philosophy
and the Reconstruction of Fractured Epistemologies" has just been
published, edited by Isaac Ukpokolo and Elvin Imafidon.
The volume is available as open access here:
https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=17555
Contents
African Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Fractured Epistemologies
(3-4)
Isaac Ehaleoye Ukpokolo, Elvin Imafidon
Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System (5-22)
Anselm Kole Jimoh
Oral Tradition, Epistemic Dependence, and Knowledge in African
Cultures (23-40)
Polycarp Ikuenobe
The Positivist Demand and the Betrayed Tradition of Tacit Knowledge
in an African Thought System. Fractures in Esan Epistemology (41-50)
Isaac Ehaleoye Ukpokolo
Reconstructing African Fractured Epistemologies for African
Development (51-76)
Wilfred Lajul
Knowledge, Power Matrix, and the Vision of African Renaissance (77-90)
Benjamin Timi Olujohungbe
Western versus African Medical Knowledge Systems. A Comparative
Epistemological Analysis (91-104)
Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi
African Experience, Development, and the Metaphysical Radicalism of
the African Humanities (105-121)
Jacob Aleonote Aigbodioh
On Indigenous African Epistemology: Mythographic Representations of
the Witchcraft Phenomenon in the Ifá Text (123-147)
Omotade Adegbindin
Cultural Reconstruction of Iwa Ji Festival in Igbo-Ukwu, and
Fractured Igbo Identity (149-164)
Francesca C Ukpokolo, Obiageli C. Okoye, Olatunde B. Lawuyi
Is the African Feminist Moral Epistemology of Care Fractured?
(165-177) Elvis Imafidon
Beyond Fractured Epistemology: A Discourse of the Idea of Personhood
and Personalism in Igbo and Yoruba Moral System (179-196)
Philip Edema
Love as the Foundation of Ubuntu (197-208)
Mpho Tshivhase
What is the Essence of an Essence? Comparing Afro-Relational and
Western-Individualist Ontologies (209-224)
Thaddeus Metz
How not to Do African Epistemology (225-236)
Peter Aloysius Ikhane
White Supremacy in Eurocentric Epistemologies: On the West’s
Responsibility for its Philosophical Heritage (237-249)
Björn Freter
A Short History of Protagoras’ Philosophy (251-262)
Janko M. Lozar
The Aporias of Kitsch (263-277)
Mirjana Radojičić
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