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Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought

Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought

Chimakonam, Jonathan O.

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy

General PsychologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesLogic

ISBN10: 1622738829
ISBN13: 9781622738823
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: Apr 15 2020
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought aims to put African intellectual history in perspective, with focus on the subjects of racism, logic, language, and psychology. The volume seeks to fill in the gaps left by the exclusion of African thinkers that are frequent in the curricula of African schools concerning history, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies.
The book is divided into four parts that are preceded by an introduction to link up the essays and emphasise their sociological implications. Part one is comprised of essays that opened the controversy of whether logic can be found in traditional African cultures as well as other matters like the nature of the mind and behaviour of African peoples. The essays in part two are centred on the following question: are the laws of thought present in African languages and cultures? Part three brings together essays that sparkle the debate on whether there can be such a thing as African logic, which stems from the discussions in part two. Part four is concerned on the theme of system-building in logic; contributions are written by members of the budding African philosophy movement called the Conversational School of Philosophy based at the University of Calabar, and the main objective of their papers is to formulate systems of African logic.

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