History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

HAP 24 - Professionally Speaking - The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy 17.03.2019 27:49 ↓

Paulin Hountondji and other African philosophers criticize ethnophilosophy and advocate a universalist approach.

HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition 03.03.2019 38:45 ↓

An interview with Nkiru Nzegwu on matriarchy and gender fluidity in Africa.

HAP 22 - Women Have no Tribe - Gender in African Tradition 17.02.2019 24:06 ↓

What archeology and ethnography tell us about the diverse and often ambiguous roles of men and women in traditional African societies.

HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge 03.02.2019 21:42 ↓

Special forms of knowledge and the explanation of misfortunes in African tradition.

HAP 20 - I Am Because We Are - Communalism in African Ethics and Politics 20.01.2019 22:03 ↓

Emphasis on the value of community as a major theme in African philosophy.

HAP 19 - Behind the Mask - African Philosophy of the Person 06.01.2019 18:02 ↓

Traditional African ideas about personhood, which challenge assumptions about the relation between mind and body, self and other.

HAP 18 - One to Rule Them All - God in African Philosophy 23.12.2018 20:48 ↓

Is traditional African religion in some sense monotheist, despite the worship of many divinities?

HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time 09.12.2018 20:15 ↓

John Mbiti’s influential and controversial claim that traditional Africans experience time as having “a long past, a present, and virtually no future.”

HAP 16 - Samuel Imbo on Okot p'Bitek and Oral Traditions 25.11.2018 36:37 ↓

A conversation with Sam Imbo on approaching oral traditions as philosophy and the Ugandan thinker and poet Okot p'Bitek.

HAP 15 - Heard it Through the Grapevine - Oral Philosophy in Africa 11.11.2018 21:04 ↓

An introduction to the “ethnophilosophy” approach inaugurated by Placide Tempels, its promises and potential pitfalls.

HAP 14 - Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa 28.10.2018 29:36 ↓

Peter speaks to Souleymane Bachir Diagne about Islamic scholars in West Africa.

HAP 13 - Renewing the Faith - the Sokoto Caliphate 14.10.2018 21:31 ↓

Uthman Dan Fodio and his family were scholars, poets, and warriors whose jihad in 19th century Nigeria created the Sokoto Caliphate.

HAP 12 - From Here to Timbuktu - Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy 30.09.2018 20:53 ↓

The spread of Islamic scholarship in subsaharan Africa, focusing on intellectuals of the Songhay empire around the Niger River in the 15th-17th centuries.

HAP 11 - Teodros Kiros on Ethiopian Philosophy 16.09.2018 39:52 ↓

Teodros Kiros discusses the history of Ethiopian thought and how it has influenced his own work in political philosophy.

HAP 10 - Think for Yourself - Walda Heywat 02.09.2018 21:45 ↓

Walda Heywat’s reaction to the thought of his teacher Zera Yacob, and the dispute over the authenticity of these two Ethiopian philosophers.

HAP 09 - In You I Take Shelter - Zera Yacob 22.07.2018 21:02 ↓

The 17th century Ethiopian rationalist Zera Yacob, hailed as the first modern Africana philosopher.

HAP 08 - Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages - Early Ethiopian Philosophy 08.07.2018 27:57 ↓

Philosophy in Ethiopia, with translations of religious and philosophical texts into Ge’ez and a national epic called the Kebra Nagast.

HAP 07 - Richard Parkinson on Egyptian Poetry 24.06.2018 32:09 ↓

Egyptioogist Richard Parkinson joins us to talk about the context and meaning of the Eloquent Peasant and other literary works of ancient Egypt.

HAP 06 - Heated Exchanges - Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues 10.06.2018 23:32 ↓

Demands for ma’at (justice or truth) and a confrontation with the soul, in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant and Dispute Between a Man and his Ba.

HAP 05 - Father Knows Best - Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions 27.05.2018 21:37 ↓

Ethical reflection in ancient Egyptian grave inscriptions and in works of instruction, such as the Maxims of Ptahhotep and the Instructions named for Amenemope, Ani, and Merikare.

HAP 04 - Pyramid Schemes - Philosophy in Ancient Egypt 13.05.2018 19:04 ↓

Ancient Egyptian figures and writings including the Pyramid Texts, Imhotep, and the "first monotheist" Akhenaten reflect on the nature of things and questions of morality.

HAP 03 - Fertile Ground - Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia 29.04.2018 20:31 ↓

Do the cuneiform writings of Babylonian culture show that it had its own philosophy?

HAP 02 - It’s Only Human - Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa 15.04.2018 19:05 ↓

Might philosophy be as old as humankind as we know it? We investigate the implications of findings concerning the origins of humankind in Africa.

HAP 01 - Something Old, Something New - Introducing Africana Philosophy 01.04.2018 21:43 ↓

Chike Jeffers and Peter Adamson kick off the new series by explaining the scope and meaning of "Africana philosophy".

HPI 62 - Kit Patrick on Philosophy and Indian History 18.03.2018 36:03 ↓

The host of the History of India podcast joins us for the final episode on India. Coming next: Africana philosophy!