KWASI WIREDU (1931 - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.
  • Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy: Four Essays.  Ed. Olusegun Oladipo.  Ibadan: Hope, 1995.
  • Philosophy and an African Culture.  Cambridge: CUP, 1980. 
• Edited Works:
  • A Companion to African Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
  • Person and Community.  Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I.  Ed. Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye.  Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1992.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • "African Philosophy, Anglophone."  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Ed. Edward Craig.  London: Routledge, 1998.
  • "Are There Cultural Universals?"  The Monist 78.1 (1995): 52-64. 
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  21-33.
  • "Custom and Morality: a Comparative Analysis of Some African and Western Conceptions of Morals."  African Philosophy: Selected Readings.  Ed. Albert G. Mosley.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.  389-486. 
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  61-77.
  • "Knowledge, Truth and Fallibility."  The Concept of Knowledge.  Ed. I. Kucuradi and R. S. Cohen.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1995.
  • "Metaphysics in Africa."  A Companion to Metaphysics.  Ed. J. Kim and E. Sosa.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.  
  • "The Need for Conceptual Decolonisation in African Philosophy."  Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy: Four Essays.  Ed. Olusegun Oladipo.  Ibadan: Hope, 1995.  
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  136-144.
  • "Post-colonial African Philosophy."  Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy: Four Essays.  Ed. Olusegun Oladipo.  Ibadan: Hope, 1995.  
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  145-153.
  • "Canons of Conceptualisation."  The Monist 76.4 (1993): 450-476.
  • "African Philosophical Tradition: a Case Study of the Akan."  Philosophical Forum 24.1-3 (1992-1993): 35-62. 
    • African American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions.  Ed. John P. Pittman.  London: Routledge, 1996.  35-62.
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  113-135.
  • "The African Concept of Personhood."  African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics.  Ed. Harley E. Flack and Edmund D. Pellegrino.  Washington: Georgetown UP, 1992.
  • "Formulating Modern Thought in African Languages."  The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness, 1947-1982.  Ed. V. Y. Mudimbe.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.  301-332. 
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  81-104.
  • "The Moral Foundations of African Culture."  African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics.  Ed. Harley E. Flack and Edmund D. Pellegrino.  Washington: Georgetown UP, 1992.
  • "Problems of Africa’s Self-Definition in the Contemporary World."  Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I.  Ed. Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye.  Washington DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1992.  59-70.
  • "The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language."  Philosophy in Africa: Trends and Perspectives.  Ed. P. O. Bodunrin.  Ile-Ife: U of Ife P, 1985.  43-54. 
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  105-112.
  • "Philosophical Research and Teaching In Africa: Some Suggestions [Toward Conceptual Decolonization]."  Teaching and Research in Philosophy: Africa.  Paris: UNESCO, 1984.
  • "Survey: Philosophy Teaching and Research in English-Speaking Africa."  Teaching and Research in Philosophy: Africa.  Paris: UNESCO, 1984.
  • "Some Issues in Philosophy in Africa Today."  Teaching and Research in Philosophy: Africa.  Paris: UNESCO, 1984.
  • "The Akan Concept of Mind."  Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies (1983): . 
    • "The Concept of Mind with Particular Reference to the Language and Thought of the Akans."  African Philosophy.  Vol. 5 of Contemporary Philosophy: a New Survey.  ed. Guttorm Floistad.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1987.
  • "Morality and Religion in Akan Thought."  Philosophy and Cultures: Proceedings of the Second Afro-Asian Philosophy Conference, Nairobi, October/November 1981.  Ed. H. Odera Oruka and D. A. Masolo.  Nairobi: Bookwise, 1983.  6-13.  
  • "Philosophy in Africa Today."  11th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Africa Studies, University of Calgary, May 1981.  Into the 80's: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Africa Studies.  Ed. Donald I. Ray, Peter Shinnie, and Donovan Williams.  Vancouver: Thantalus Research, 1981. 
    • "On Defining African Philosophy."  African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan.  St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1991.  87-110.
  • "A Philosophical Perspective on the Concept of Human Communication."  International Social Science Journal 32.2. (1980): . 
    • Cultural Universals and Particulars: an African Perspective.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.  13-19.
  • "How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought."  Ch'Indaba 2 (1976): 4-8. 
    • African Philosophy: Selected Readings.  Ed. Albert G. Mosley.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.  159-171.
    • African Philosophy: the Essential Readings.  Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan.  St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1991.
    • African Philosophy: an Introduction.  Ed. Richard Wright.  Lanham: UP of America,  1977.
  • "Logic and Ontology."  Second-Order: an African Journal of Philosophy:
    • Part IV.  4.1 (1975): 25-43.
    • Part III.  3.2 (1974): .
    • Part II.  2.2 (1973): 21-38.
    • Part I.  2.1 (1973): 71-82.
  • "On an African Orientation in Philosophy."  Second Order: an African Journal of Philosophy 1.2 (1972): 3-13.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Philosophy and Authenticity Shibboleths: Journal of Comparative Theory 1.2 (2007): .

  • Some Comments on Contemporary African Philosophy Florida Philosophical Review 3.1 (2003)

  • Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion African Studies Quarterly 1.4 (1998)

  • Person and Community (1992):

    • Introduction: Ghanaian Tradition of Philosophy

    • Chapter 2: Problems in Africa's Self-Definition in the Contemporary World

    • Chapter 7: Death and the Afterlife in African Culture

    • Chapter 9: The Moral Foundations of an African Culture

• Selected Interviews:

  • Language Matters!  Decolonization, Multilingualism, and African languages in the Making of African Philosophy (Interviewed by Kai Kresse, Polylog)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Oladipo, Olusegun, ed.  The Third Way in African Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Kwasi Wiredu.  Lagos: Hope, 2002.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Osha, Sanya.  Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: the Text, Writing and Thought in Africa.  Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA, 2005.

On-Line:

• Granes, Anke, ed.  Kwasi Wiredu's Ethics of Consensus: an African Model Polylog 2 (2000): .

• Osha, Sanya: Kwasi Wiredu and the Problems of Conceptual Decolonisation Quest 13 (): .

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Kwasi Wiredu

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