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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.
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 -- The 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and indexes.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
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