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Poverty Research and its Discontents: Review and Discussion of Issues Raised in Dimensions of Poverty. Measurement, Epistemic Injustices and Social Activism (Beck, V., H. Hahn, and R. Lepenies eds., Springer, Cham, 2020)

, 2021
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 530-544, June 2021.
Svenja Flechtner
wiley   +1 more source

Conversations in African Philosophy [PDF]

, 2015
Conversational philosophy is articulated by Jonathan O. Chimakonam as the new wave of philosophical practice both in “place” and in “space”. This journal adopts and promotes this approach to philosophizing for African philosophy.
Chimakonam, JO
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Engaging with Aribiah Attoe’s Predeterministic Historicity

Arụmarụka, 2022
In this essay, I critically engage with Aribiah Attoe’s new book on African Metaphysics, Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity, by reflecting on some of the philosophical issues that it provokes. Attoe
Amara Esther CHIMAKONAM
doaj   +1 more source

Ubuntu and modernity in Africa: a critical examination of Ubuntu and its challenges in modern philosophical discourses. [PDF]

, 2020
Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.The debate between Bernard Matolino and Wenceslaus Kwindingwi’s ‘The end of ubuntu’ and Thaddeus Metz’s ‘Just the beginning for ubuntu [..]’ has been a major force to be reckoned with ...
Magoso, Kwanele Protas.
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Philosophical Counselling as a Method of Practising Contemporary African Philosophy: Setting the Context for a Conversation between Serequeberhan and Chimakonam [PDF]

Philosophical counselling is typically conceptualised as a praxis going beyond academic and theoretical philosophy. However, two problems soon follow, namely the lack of agreed-upon methods and a substantial neglect of different philosophical traditions ...
Louw, Jaco
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Book Review: Conversational Philosophy in Practice [PDF]

, 2015
A review of [Arguments and Clarifications: A Philosophical Encounter between J. O. Chimakonam and M. I. Edet on the Ibuanyidandaness of Complementary Ontology], 2014. 3RD Logic Option: Calabar. Paperback. Pp147Authors: Mesembe I.
Irem, MO
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The ethics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and transhumanism: a personhood-based approach

Data & Policy
In this article, I will consider the moral issues that might arise from the possibility of creating more complex and sophisticated autonomous intelligent machines or simply artificial intelligence (AI) that would have the human capacity for moral ...
Amara Esther Chimakonam
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Superlongevity and African Ethics

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 832-850, July 2025.
ABSTRACT I apply African moral precepts to the topic of ‘superlongevity’. I make the case that African theories give rise to three specific sorts of moral concern about life extension that are distinct from similar objections in Western literature: first, superlongevity presents a challenge to identity; second, significantly longer lives face increased
Christopher S. Wareham
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Book Review: African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women

, 2019
Book Title: African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of WomenBook Authors: Jonathan O.
Awugosi, Chukwuemeka I., Chukwuemeka I. Awugosi   +1 more
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‘Conversational Decoloniality’: Re-Imagining Viable Guidelines for African Decolonial Agenda [PDF]

, 2023
This article identifies the agenda of decoloniality as a call to seek solutions to Africa’s problems from within herself (Africa). This call has its hold in colonial and post-independent attempts by African Nationalists, writers, freedom fighters and ...
Oyekunle, Akinpelu A., Akinpelu A. Oyekunle   +1 more
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