African philosophy : new and traditional perspectives /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description:	xiv, 193 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophy, African. Philosophy, African.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5060326

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	African philosophy
Other authors / contributors:	Brown, Lee M.
ISBN:	019511440X 0195114418 (pbk)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and indexes. Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions.
Standard no.:	9780195114409

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
African Philosophy
1. Seeing Through the Conceptual Languages of Others
Notes
2. Akan and Euro-american Concepts of the Person
Notes
3. Truth and an African Language
Notes
4. An Outline of a Theory of Destiny
Notes
5. Personal Identity in African Metaphysics
Notes
6. The Concept of the Person in Luo Modes of Thought
Notes
7. Nature, Agency, and Causation in African Traditional Thought
Notes
8. Witchcraft, Science, and the Paranormal in Contemporary African Philosophy
Notes
9. Understanding and Ontology in Traditional African Thought
Notes
Selected Bibliography of Epistemological and Metaphysical Perspectives in African Philosophical Thought
Index of Names
Subject Index

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