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Title:Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledge: An African Perspective
Author:Masolo, D.A.ISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:50
Issue:2
Period:Fall/Winter
Pages:21-38
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Africa
Subjects:indigenous knowledge
philosophy
ethnophilosophy
Health and Nutrition
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v050/50.2masolo.pdf
Abstract:Rooted in the 1940s, the debate on African ethnophilosophy foreshadowed and preempted what was to become a global debate on philosophy and indigenous knowledge, whose tenets have now brought the natural and social sciences close together. Mediated by philosophers' scepticism toward objectivism (also called realism), scientists on both sides clearly agree that all knowledge is human-centred or driven by human interests, and therefore indigenous in various respects. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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