Imafidon E., Tshivhase M., Freter B. (Eds.) Handbook of African Philosophy

Springer Cham, 2023. — XX, 880 p. — (Handbooks in Philosophy). — ISBN 978-3030778989.This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies.Introduction
The Meaning of African Philosophy / Isaac E. Ukpokolo
Afro-communitarian Philosophy
African Philosophy of Communalism / F. Ochieng`-Odhiambo
Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy / Elvis Imafidon
Afro-communitarianism and Transhumanism / Amara Esther Chimakonam
Social Robots as Persons in Community / Mpho Tshivhase
Robots and Dignity: An Afro-communitarian Argument in Eldercare / Karabo Maiyane
Ethics
African Ethics / Fainos Mangena
Doing Moral Philosophy Through Personhood / Motsamai Molefe
African Research Ethics / Joseph Balatedi Radinkudikae Gaie
Ubuntu and Bioethics / Nancy S. Jecker
Personal Autonomy and Shared-Value in Bioethics: An African Communal Ethics Outlook / Samuel J. Ujewe
Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Logic
African Epistemology: Past, Present, and Future / Peter Aloysius Ikhane
Knowledge and Testimony in African Communitarian Epistemology / Anselm Kole Jimoh
Exploring Ignorance and Injustice in African Epistemology / Kenneth Uyi Abudu
Trivalent Logic, African Logic, and African Metaphysics / Edwin Etieyibo
Political Philosophy
African Political Philosophy / Joseph Balatedi Radinkudikae Gaie
Doing Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy from Below / Yeelen Badona Monteiro
The Philosophy of Human Rights: The Akan Model / Joseph Osei
Technologies of Human Rights Protection, Sovereignty, and Freedom / Uchenna Okeja
African Philosophy of Development / Monday Lewis Igbafen
Feminist Philosophy
Gender and Afro-personhood / Lindokuhle B. Gama
An African Feminist Interrogation of Existential Epistemology: Women as the “Other of the Other” in (Post)Colonial Africa / Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola
Philosophy and the Nonhuman
The Nonhuman in African Philosophy / Alena Rettová
The Animal in African Philosophy / Kai Horsthemke
Existentialism and Phenomenology
Key Concerns in African Existentialism / Austine E. Iyare
African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life / Aribiah David Attoe and Yolanda Mlungwana
African Phenomenology: Introductory Perspectives / Abraham Olivier
Philosophy of Religion
Toward a Philosophy of African Endogenous Religions / Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
God’s Existence and the Problem of Evil in African Philosophy of Religion / Ada Agada
Philosophy of Education
A Sketch of an Ubuntu Philosophy of Education / Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu
Imfundo, Ubulumko, Nomthetho: A South African Philosophy of Education / Siseko H. Kumalo
Future Considerations
African Philosophy and the Question of the Future / Bruce B. Janz
Index