Kwame Gyekye | Academic Influence

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Kwame Gyekye

Philosophy

#1412

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#2581

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Ethics

#155

World Rank

#189

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Logic

#8112

World Rank

#10096

Historical Rank

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PhD Philosophy University of Oxford
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Bachelors Philosophy University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Kwame Gyekye was a Ghanaian philosopher, and an important figure in the development of modern African philosophy. Gyekye was an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Ghana, and a visiting professor of philosophy and African-American studies at Temple University. He is known for theorizing the concept of person-hood on the basis of Akan cultural paradigm in debate with Kwasi Wiredu, which is seen as one of the defining moments of modern African philosophy.

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Kwame Gyekye's Published Works

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An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme (1987) (502)
Tradition and modernity (1997) (422)
Person and Community Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I (1992) (98)
The Terms "Prima Intentio" and "Secunda Intentio" in Arabic Logic (1971) (57)
Person and Community (1992) (53)
Beyond cultures : perceiving a common humanity (2004) (46)
The unexamined life: philosophy and the African experience (1988) (43)
Al-Fārābī on the Logic of the Arguments of the Muslim Philosophical Theologians (1989) (33)
Developing a Community-Based Resilience Assessment Model with reference to Northern Ghana (2014) (30)
Logic in Classical Islamic Culture (1971) (21)
Arabic logic: Ibn al-Ṭayyib's commentary on Porphyry's Eisagoge (1979) (20)
Theology and Law in Islam (1972) (15)
Earth System Governance in Africa: knowledge and capacity needs (2015) (15)
The Akan Concept of a Person (1978) (14)
Technology and Culture in a Developing Country (1995) (12)
Taking Development Seriously (1994) (10)
Unemployment in Limpopo Province in South Africa: Searching for Factors (2012) (5)
Aristotle and a modern notion of predication (1974) (4)
Akan Language and the Materialist Thesis: A Short Essay on the Relation Between Philosophy and Language (1977) (3)
What do others think is the point of design and technology education (2015) (3)
Aristotle on predication: an analysis of Anal. Post. 83a (1979) (3)
Our Cultural Values and National Orientation (2008) (3)
The Term Istithnā' in Arabic Logic@@@The Term Istithna' in Arabic Logic (1972) (3)
Examining Farm Management Practices and Implications for Food Crop Production in Semi-arid Ghana (2018) (2)
Political Corruption: A Moral Pollution (1997) (2)
Aristotle on Language and Meaning (1974) (2)
Person and Community: In Defense of Moderate Communitarianism (1997) (2)
The unexamined life (1988) (2)
Identity and the Question of African Philosophy@@@African Philosophy@@@Contemporary Philosophy: African Philosophy@@@African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine@@@An Essay on African Philosophical Thought (1991) (2)
Ghana @50 Anniversary Lectures (2008) (1)
Relationship between religion and science (2009) (1)
Traditional Political Ideas, Values, and Practices: Their Status in the Modern Setting (1997) (1)
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE: AN OVERVIEW (2015) (1)
An Examination of the Bundle-Theory of Substance (1973) (1)
Philosophy and Human Affairs (1997) (1)
Ibn al-Ṭayyib's commentary on Prophyry's eisagoge (1975) (0)
Al-Farabi on 'Analysis' and 'Synthesis' (1972) (0)
Ethnicity, Identity, and Nationhood (1997) (0)
The Socialist Interlude (1997) (0)
Quandaries in the Legitimation of Political Power (1997) (0)
A CRITICAL EXPOSITION OF (2003) (0)
Epilogue: Which Modernity? Whose Tradition? (1997) (0)
Interval-valued Uncertainty Capability Indices with South African Industrial Applications (2014) (0)

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