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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:white">The African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (</span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:blue"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nsZwCzvkyVCGXovjZC4yboh?domain=uj.ac.za" title="https://www.uj.ac.za/aceps">ACEPS</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;background:white">)
at the University of Johannesburg invites you to:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt">Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge Speaker Series: Opening Lecture</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212529;background:white"> ‘Ethnophilosophy as Decolonization: Revisiting the Question of African Philosophy’ by
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#F26522;background:white"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bLQECANpgjCZxAMDXs8dzya?domain=paul-irikefecardiff.com/"><span style="color:#F26522;text-decoration:none">Dr Paul Irikefe</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212529;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt">Date</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt">: Friday 20 October 2023</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt;background:white">Time</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt;background:white">: 16:00 (SAST/
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt">Venue</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt">: UJ on Empire, Ground Floor</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt">Zoom</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt">:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#242424"><a href="https://zoom.us/j/95988953869">https://zoom.us/j/95988953869</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#242424">Funding</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#242424">: National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Ethnophilosophy as Decolonization: Revisiting the Question of African Philosophy </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">:
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">In this paper, I challenge the deeply held view in African philosophy that ethnophilosophy is a form of degenerate
philosophy. I do so in two steps. First, I argue that the ethnophilosophical problems raised by the self-styled ‘professional philosophers’ in African philosophy rest on a profound mistake: the characterization of ethnophilosophy they attack does not exist
in the great works of Tempels, Mbiti, Senghor, and Kagame. Second, I argue that ethnophilosophy properly understood is a specific instance of epistemological decolonization, which among other things, invites us to question those very assumptions about the
nature of philosophy and rational belief from which the ethnophilosophical problems seem to greatly arise. I develop this second argument by drawing on a framework of decolonization that stems from the works of Anibal Quijano (2000, 2007), Ramón Grosfoguel
(2007, 2013), Walter Mignolo (2002, 2007, 2009, 2011), and Veli Mitova (2020, 2023). </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Author Bio</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#0B303B">Paul Irikefe is a President and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a Research Associate in
the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He works mainly in African philosophy, metaphilosophy, and epistemology. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#0B303B">At UC Irvine, he equally works on a campus-wide initiative led by Duncan Pritchard to embed intellectual virtues in the university curriculum
at UC Irvine and beyond. He is presently working on a book manuscript on the epistemology of philosophy. Paul Irikefe defended his PhD this year at Cardiff University with Avner Baz (Tufts University) as his external examiner and Jonathan Webber (Cardiff University)
as his internal examiner. He was supervised by Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University), Liz Irvine (Cardiff University) and Mona Simeon (University of Glasgow). </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#242424">Veli Mitova</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#242424">Professor in Philosophy and Director of ACEPS</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#242424">University of Johannesburg</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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