Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030704353)

Jonathan O. Chimakonam Ph.D, was a senior lecturer (2016-2018) at the University of Calabar, Nigeria and is now at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the convener of the professional African philosophy society, The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP) and the founding editor of Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions. He is winner of the Jens Jacobsen Research Award for Outstanding Research in Philosophy. He is the African philosophy Area Editor in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Jonathan propounded the theories of Ezumezu logic and Conversational thinking.

Edwin Etieyibo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, writing a dissertation on David Gauthier's Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession, which presents a critical examination of Gauthier's account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility. He taught for a number of years at Athabasca University and the University of Alberta before moving to the University of the Witwatersrand. His teaching and research interest broadly covers ethics, social and political philosophy, social contract theories, history of philosophy, philosophy of education and children, and African socio-political economics and philosophy.

Ike Odimegwu, PhD. is a Professor of Philosophy at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He is widely published in learned journals and international presses. He is currently the Dean of Postgraduate School at his university.