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Kwasi Wiredu

Philosophy

#503

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#1036

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Logic

#5585

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#6994

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Kwasi Wiredu's Degrees

Bachelors Philosophy University of Ghana
Masters Philosophy University of Ghana
PhD Philosophy University of Ghana

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According to Wikipedia, Kwasi Wiredu was a Ghanaian philosopher. Often called the greatest African philosopher of his generation, his work contributed to the conceptual decolonisation of African thought. Life and career Wiredu was born in Kumasi, Gold Coast , in 1931, and attended Adisadel College from 1948 to 1952. It was during this period that he discovered philosophy, through Plato and Bertrand Russell. He gained a place at the University of Ghana, Legon. After graduating in 1958, he went to University College, Oxford to read for the B.Phil.

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Kwasi Wiredu's Published Works

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Cultural universals and particulars : an African perspective (1999) (284)
Philosophy and an African culture (1981) (190)
A Companion to African Philosophy (2004) (178)
Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion (1997) (107)
Person and Community Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I (1992) (98)
Social Philosophy in Postcolonial Africa: Some Preliminaries Concerning Communalism and Communitarianism (2008) (69)
An Oral Philosophy of Personhood: Comments on Philosophy and Orality (2009) (64)
Cultural Universals and Particulars (1996) (62)
DEMOCRACY AND CONSENSUS IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL POLITICS: A PLEA FOR A NON-PARTY POLITY (2016) (58)
Person and Community (1992) (53)
Are There Cultural Universals (1990) (51)
Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time (2007) (49)
Conceptual decolonization as an imperative in contemporary African philosophy : some personal reflections (2002) (38)
Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy Four Essays (1995) (37)
Conceptual decolonization in African philosophy (1995) (32)
The state, civil society and democracy in Africa (1998) (25)
Society and democracy in Africa (1999) (24)
Prolegomena to an African philosophy of education : perspectives on higher education (2005) (23)
The concept of mind with particular reference to the language and thought of the Akans (1987) (20)
Democracy by Consensus: Some Conceptual Considerations (2001) (16)
Democracy by Consensus: Some Conceptual Considerations (2007) (16)
Philosophy and social reconstruction in Africa (2009) (14)
Truth and an African Language (2004) (12)
Epistemology and the tradition in Africa (2003) (10)
On the idea of a global ethic (2005) (10)
Can Philosophy Be Intercultural? (1998) (8)
PHILOSOPHY AND AUTHENTICITY (2007) (8)
Canons of Conceptualization (1993) (7)
African Religions from a Philosophical Point of View (2010) (6)
REPLY TO ENGLISH AND HAMME (1996) (5)
Reflections on Cultural Diversity (2005) (5)
Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind (2007) (5)
Knowledge, Truth and Fallibility (1995) (4)
African philosophy and inter-cultural dialogue (1997) (3)
The Humanities and the Idea of National Identity (2019) (3)
Ethnophilosophy and its critics: a trialogue (1995) (2)
Language Problem in African Philosophy : The Igala Case (2)
On the necessity of S4 (1979) (2)
Conduct (2021) (1)
An African Religions Perspective (2010) (1)
Truth and Dialogue (2013) (1)
Free Will (2021) (0)
African Philosophy in Search of ldentity (review) (2008) (0)
The study of African philosophy shares some imperatives with the study of Caribbean philosophy. Let us work our way to some of these from the African angle. (2007) (0)
Obligation (2021) (0)
Immortality (2021) (0)
Existence (2021) (0)
The Role of Philosophy in Intercultural Dialogue: An African Perspective (2007) (0)
Reincarnation (2021) (0)
Agent (Ethical) (2021) (0)
Mysticism (2021) (0)
Attribute (2021) (0)
Thinking On/After the Move: Language, Genres and Strategies of Reflexive Practice (2013) (0)
Act (Mental) (2021) (0)
Time (2018) (0)
IDENTITY AS AN INTELLECTUAL PROBLEM (2004) (0)
L'empiricalisme : une philosophie africaine contemporaine (2004) (0)
Dualism (2021) (0)
Morality (2021) (0)
Morals (2021) (0)
Order (2021) (0)
Individual as Community Member (2021) (0)
Public-private partnerships in poverty reduction (2003) (0)

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