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Ethnophilosophy refers to bodies of belief and knowledge that have philosophical relevance and which can be redescribed in terms drawn from academic philosophy, but which have not been consciously formulated as philosophy by philosophers. These bodies of belief and knowledge are manifested in the thoughts and actions of people who share a common ...
Ivan Karp, D.A. Masolo
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Ethnophilosophy refers to bodies of belief and knowledge that have philosophical relevance and which can be redescribed in terms drawn from academic philosophy, but which have not been consciously formulated as philosophy by philosophers. These bodies of belief and knowledge are manifested in the thoughts and actions of people who share a common ...
Ivan Karp, D.A. Masolo
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Ethnophilosophy as Decolonization: Revisiting the Question of African Philosophy
Philosophical Papers, 2023 exaly +2 more sources
Logical Positivism, Analytic Method, and Criticisms of Ethnophilosophy
Metaphilosophy, 2004Abstract: I argue that the analytic method has been circularly used to analyze the concept of “philosophy,” and that the result of this analysis has also been used to criticize African ethnophilosophy as nonphilosophical. I critically examine the criticism that ethnophilosophy implies cognitive relativism and the criticism that it implies ...
Polycarp Ikuenobe
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Beyond the Universalist Critique and the Particularist Defence of Ethnophilosophy
2022exaly +2 more sources
The “Ethnophilosophy” Problem: How the Idea of “Social Imaginaries” May Remedy It
The Philosophical ForumAbstractThe work argues that engaging Africa's cultural and epistemic resources as social imaginaries, and not as metaphysical or ontological “essences,” could help practitioners of African philosophy overcome the cluster of shortcomings and undesirable features associated with “ethnophilosophy.” A number of points are outlined to buttress this claim ...
Donald Mark C Ude
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Indeterminancy, Ethnophilosophy, Linguistic Philosophy, African Philosophy
Philosophy, 1995This is a paper about philosophical methodology or, better, methodologies. Most of the material that has been published to date under the rubric of African philosophy has been methodological in character. One reason for this is the conflicts that sometimes arise when philosophers in Africa attempt to reconcile their relationships with both academic ...
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Hountondji’s Critique of Ethnophilosophy and His Notion of African Philosophy
2018Paulin Hountondji became famous for his rigorous critique of ethnophilosophy. This chapter presents the historical context of the emergence of ethnophilosophy, portrays the most important writings of this genre and discusses Hountondji’s methodological objections to the ethnophilosophical approach.
Franziska Dübgen, Stefan Skupien
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