Call for Articles: African Philosophy & the Analytic Tradition, 05/01

Date: 5 Jul 2000
From: Philosophy News Service <richard@PhilosophyNews.com>

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Call for Papers: "African Philosophy and the Analytic Tradition"

Special edition of PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS

Guest editor: Richard H. Bell, Dept of Philosophy, The College of Wooster (USA)

Article submissions are welcome on any topic relevant to the relationship between African philosophy and the analytic tradition in philosophy. This includes, but is not restricted to, such topics as:

* The relevance, use or limitations of the analytic approach for African philosophy.
* The relevance, use or limitations of African philosophy to topics of traditional interest to analytic philosophers. * The analysis of concepts particular to the contemporary African context, including such as race and racism, justice, human rights and democracy, amnesty and reconciliation, issues in development ethics or issues related to cultural diversity and multiculturalism in Africa. * The nature of African philosophy in terms of its similarity to and distinctness from the analytic tradition.

Deadline for submission of manuscripts is 15 May 2001. The issue will appear in October of 2001, and will be comprised of both invited and submitted articles.

Interested contributors should send two hard copies of the manuscript, as well as a copy saved on a new 3.5-inch diskette, to Philosophical Papers, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.

Further enquiries may be addressed to either Professor Bell <rbell@acs.wooster.edu> or Ward Jones (Editor, Philosophical Papers): <w.jones@ru.ac.za>