02723nam 22005894a 450 991045010240332120200520144314.00-19-978582-10-19-802737-01-281-98893-69786611988937(CKB)1000000000209815(EBL)3053103(OCoLC)318458803(SSID)ssj0000085242(PQKBManifestationID)11116128(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085242(PQKBWorkID)10007548(PQKB)11184018(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075392(MiAaPQ)EBC3053103(Au-PeEL)EBL3053103(CaPaEBR)ebr10283342(CaONFJC)MIL198893(EXLCZ)99100000000020981520030328d2004 uy 0enguruz|---auuu|txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAfrican philosophy[electronic resource] new and traditional perspectives /edited by Lee M. BrownOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (208 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-511441-8 0-19-511440-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and indexes.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.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.Philosophy, AfricanElectronic books.Philosophy, African.199/.67Brown Lee M969595MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450102403321African philosophy2203476UNINA