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SPECIAL ISSUE

AFRICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD IN THE LIGHT OFPROFESSORMADUABUCHI DUKOR’S“FOUR GREAT WORKS ON AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY”

The objective of this special issue is to distillate a cosmic view fundamental enough for the renewal of political, scientific and ethical life in a globalized world. It is believed that approaching these subject matters in the light of Maduabuchi Dukor’s “four great works on African Philosophy” will refresh an insight from African philosophical point of view vis-à-vis western perspectives;THEISTIC HUMANISM OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY (Lambert Academic Publishing AG and Co. Germany, 2010,www.lap-publishing.com)SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM IN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY (Lambert Academic Publishing AG and Co. Germany, 2010,www.lap-publishing.com)AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE (Lambert Academic Publishing AG and Co. Germany, 2010,www.lap-publishing.com)AFRICAN FREEDOM: THE FREEDOM OF PHILOSOPHY (Lambert Academic Publishing AG and Co. Germany, 2009,www.lap-publishing.com)As an academic theoretical and scientific engagement, the global imports of these works will be better achieved by a free syntheses, intercourse, interrogations, conversations and critical reflections upon significant advocacies and postulations of modern, postmodern and contemporary western and African scholars such as Jurgen Habermas, Placid Tempels, Levy Bruhl, William Abraham, Kwasi Wiredu, kwame Gyekye, C.B. Okoro and so on.Concerned philosophers should employ critical discourses in Dukor’s four great works on African Philosophy in further interrogations on the nature of human problems within and outside the preview of African Philosophy.Papers are therefore elicited from multidisciplinary concerns of philosophy in science, history, anthropology, politics economics, religion such as,

African philosophy and Theistic humanism

Atheism and Pantheism

Atheism and Humanism

Scientific Paradigm

An African Science

African philosophy and Global Ethics

Global economic and social crisis

Religious fundamentalism,

African Freedom

African Identity

African Development

Globalization and so on.

Scholars are advised to googleMaduabuchi Dukorin the internet to encounter a bird’s eye of snapshots of his four great works on African Philosophy and others including the Dukorin profile.

Important Dates:

vSubmission of Manuscripts Deadline: 15 September, 2012

vNotification of Acceptance; 15 November 2012

vFinal Manuscript Submission 30 January 2013

vTentative Publication Date; February  2013

Editors

1. Dr. Olatunji Alabi Oyeshile

Snr. Lecturer

Department of Philosophy,

UniversityofIbadan

Email:alabi14@yahoo.com

2. Dr. Francis Offor

Snr. Lecturer

Department of Philosophy,

UniversityofIbadan

Email:offor66@yahoo.com

3. Dr. Paul I Ogugua

Essence library

Email:paiykeo@yaoo.com

All manuscript for this special issue should be submitted electronically to theOJPPpapersubmission system. Authors should indicate that their manuscript are being submitted for the special byadding “-special issue”after the paper title when filing the paper title in the paper submission system.