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the significance of community. This analysis will enable fair engagement with Mbiti's conception of community.Keywords : Mbiti; community; personhood; Afro-communitarianism; African political philosophy. ... political philosophy Introduction Mbiti is one of the precursors of modern African philosophy. His work sets the stage for major philosophical problems in African thought, in which the relation
the significance of community. This analysis will enable fair engagement with Mbiti's conception of community.Keywords : Mbiti; community; personhood; Afro-communitarianism; African political philosophy. ... political philosophy Introduction Mbiti is one of the precursors of modern African philosophy. His work sets the stage for major philosophical problems in African thought, in which the relation
the significance of community. This analysis will enable fair engagement with Mbiti's conception of community.Keywords : Mbiti; community; personhood; Afro-communitarianism; African political philosophy. ... political philosophy Introduction Mbiti is one of the precursors of modern African philosophy. His work sets the stage for major philosophical problems in African thought, in which the relation
This paper offers an explanation for why some parts of philosophy have made no progress. Philosophy has made no progress because it cannot make progress. And it cannot because of the nature of the ... . This version is the Problem of the Subjective and Objective. Then it is argued that the unsolvability of this latter problem is why there are other unsolvable philosophy problems. Consciousness; Mind
circle . In: Philosophical papers 1913- 1946 . Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 48 - 51 Parekh B ( 1991 ) Nehru and the national philosophy of India . Econ Political Weekly 26 ( 1-2 ): 35 -48 Sokolov AV ... the affirmation of intercultural philosophy and internationalism but it goes well beyond cultural and geographic cosmopolitanism. To embrace global philosophy is to reject any approach to philosophy
Elsewhere I have tried to provide the justification of both the irreducible (transcendental) distinction of science and philosophy and their inevitable (naturalistic) complementarity. Unlike ... decades, we need a new concept of philosophy of science, which must not only recur to epistemology, formal logic and philosophy of language, but also to ethics, social and political philosophy, axiology
Much of the work in moral philosophy and the political debate on abortion has focused on when in human development personhood begins. In this article, using a variant of Derek Parfit’s view on ... criteria proposed by philosophers, legal theorists and political activists to answer the question—when, if ever, is abortion permissible? Entering into this moral and political fray means one must generally
African philosophy, at least the modern modality of its practice, is said to have been initiated by the overwhelming question concerning its existence: Is there an African philosophy? No doubt such ... concerning "knowledges" from Africa is determined by an overarching, indeed imperial, definition of what is understood to be "philosophy"; in other words, this question sought to determine whether those
Republic of China (PRC). In particular, this ideological critique will employ second-wave feminism's "personal as political" theoretical lens, as well as both Jacques Lacan's theory of discourse and Pierre ... is the strength of the unwanted. (Pearl S. Buck [赛珍珠] Letter from Peking 1957) cross-cultural feminist analysis; marriage practices; the personal as political; dominant gender discourse(s); People's
The history of philosophy is not just an academic discipline, but considered to be a philosophical activity itself. It has been instrumental in shaping our understanding of philosophy, our ... influence of social, political, ideological and epistemological conditions and power relationships, are of immense importance to the new study of the history of philosophy in Africa. All of these conditions
Since its inception as an academic discipline, African philosophy has positioned itself at the centre of the struggle for justice and self-determination, and by that jettisoning-and rightly so-the ... colonialism in Africa resulting in the political, economic, and intellectual subordination of the continent. For that reason, African philosophy had (out of necessity) to emerge and shape itself both in
for the nominalist philosophy of mathematics. But in the end it can lead to a serious challenge to the nominalist account of mathematical objectivity if some minimal assumptions about the relation ... mathematical realism on the other. But this attitude is not shared by every nominalist. For instance, in Hellman’s view, the first desideratum of a philosophy of mathematics should “rest on the view that the
clash between science and philosophy: Zeno's paradoxes, the Frame Problem, and a recent attempt to experimentally refute skepticism. In all three cases, the relevant science claims to have resolved the ... Problem; Geometric series; Infinity; Knowledge; Relevance; Semantics; Skepticism; Zeno's Paradoxes 1 Introduction This paper provides arguments that three famous philosophy problems are not solved or even
" that exposes the quadripartite alliance of a postmodernist Western philosophy, technoscience, commercial interests, and politics as the systemic drivers of this technocratic philosophical anthropology ... : Artificial Intelligence (AI); Covid-19; philosophical anthropology; philosophy of technology; technological posthumanism; transhumanism Introduction The motif of this article is that the manner in
. To a certain degree, he was both. From traces of this awareness of his origin in the coastal area of today's Ghana, we argue for his place in African philosophy by pursuing the thesis that he should be ... , educated in German philosophical traditions and critically engaged in enlightenment philosophy. Keywords: Anton Wilhelm Amo; African philosophy; German enlightenment; African traditions; history of
Ethno-philosophy, as a philosophical project, has had its fair share of criticism from some professional African philosophers, with Paulin Hountondji as an outstanding critic. Ethno-philosophy is ... [sic] the thinking of most Universalists ... indigeneity remains an integral part of a people's philosophy" (Mangena 2014b, 102). Tilting towards the political, Mangena (2014b, 103) writes that: In
argue that epistemologies of mathematics ought to account for questions of exposure to and choice of attention to mathematical ideas, and remark on the political relevance of such epistemologies. ... relevance of the DEI literature to the philosophy of mathematics. In Sect. 6 we use this connection to argue for the political relevance of a thick epistemology of mathematics. 3 Background In the last
We argue that African philosophy scholars are sometimes blinded by Eurocentric tendencies in the practice of African philosophy, and that it is important to identify and overcome these problems. The ... -theoretical" attitude to ethico-political matters (Chase and Reynolds 2014, 8). Using the philosophical figures approach, analytic philosophy refers to a style of doing philosophy with an emphasis on argument
for evaluating whether this prospect holds up. Philosophy of perception; Perceptual pluralism; Naïve realism; Cognitive penetrability of perception; Theory-ladenness of observation; Perspectival ... realism 1 Introduction The cognitive penetrability of perception (CPP) is one of the heated current topics lying at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. The debate is doubly motivated
2008; Asper 2008) detail how Euclidean style mathematics was designed as a project of social and political distinction along a theory–practice divide. On the one hand, classical Greek geometry ... and manipulative arguments that prevailed in political assemblies, courts of law, and debates among philosophers (even though some the latter attempted to steer clear of the sophistic style, or at least
