Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy

1 Introduction

Part I African Philosophy and History

2 African Philosophy in History, Context and Contemporary Times

3 The Journey of African Philosophy

4 History of Philosophy as a Problem: Our Case

5 The State of African Philosophy in Africa

Part II Method in African Philosophy

6 Questions of Method and Substance and the Growth of African Philosophy.

7 Between the Ontology and Logic Criteria of African Philosophy

8 The "Demise" of Philosophical Universalism and the Rise of Conversational Thinking in Contemporary African Philosophy

9 Is, Ought and All: In Defense of a Method

Part III Substance of African Philosophy

10 An Examination of Menkiti's Conception of Personhood and Gyekye's Critique

11 Justification of Moral Norms in African Philosophy

12 The Importance of an African Social Epistemology to Improve Public Health and Increase Life Expectancy in Africa

13 The Question of Rationality in Kwasi Wiredu's Consensual Democracy

14 How to Ground Animal Rights on African Values: A Constructive Approach

Part IV African Philosophy and Its Future

15 Philosophy and the State in Africa

16 Jéan-Paul Sartre and the Agenda of an Africanist Philosophy of Liberation

17 The Shaping of the Future of African Philosophy