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Topic
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Readings
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January 30
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Introduction + Ancient Egypt
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•Barry Hallen, A Short History of African Philosophy, “The Historical Perspective,” pp. 3-12
•Chike Jeffers, “Embodying Justice in Ancient Egypt: The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant as a Classic of Political Philosophy,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2013) Vol. 21(3):421-442.
•Instructions of Ptah-hotep
•Bill Manley, Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners, pp. 10-31
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February 6
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Early Modern African Philosophy: Zera Yacob and Anton Wilhelm Amo
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•Zera Yacob, Treatise of Zera Yacob
•Claude Sumner, The Significance of Zera Yacob's Philosophy
•Teodros Kiros, "Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy," in Blackwell Companion to African Philosophy, pp. 183-185
•Dwight Lewis, “Anton Wilhelm Amo: The African Philosopher in 18th Europe,” APA Blog Post; “Anton Wilhelm Amo: Introduction & English Translation”
•Dag Herbjørnsrud, "The African Enlightenment," Aeon
•Chris Meyns, “Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophy of Mind,” Philosophy Compass (2019)
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February 13
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Modern African Philosophy (1): anthropology and ethnophilosophy
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•Marcel Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli, pp. 1-34, 123-129
•Placide Tempels, Bantu Philosophy, Chapters 1 and 2
•Paulin Hountondji, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality, pp. 47-54
•DA Masolo, African Sage Philosophy, SEP
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February 27
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Modern African Philosophy (2): ordinary language philosophy
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•J. Olubi Sodipo and Barry Hallen, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft
--pp. 1-14, 127-141
--pp. 40-41, 45-81
•Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow, "Whither Whorf" in Language in Mind
•Anna Wierzbicka, excerpts from Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English
•J.L. Austin, "A Plea for Excuses"
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March 5
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Gender, Identity, Tradition
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•Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu, Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture, pp. 1-21, 209-229, 233-239
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March 26
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Olmec, Maya, Aztec/Nahua Metaphysics
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•James Maffie, “Pre-Columbian Philosophies,” in A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, pp. 9-21
•James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion
--pp. 1-12, 21-40
•L. Sebastian Purcell, "Eudaimonia and Neltiliztli: Aristotle andthe Aztecs on the Good Life," pp. 10-20 of APA Newsletter on Hispanics in Philosophy
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April 9
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Gender, Identity, and Tradition
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•Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, pp. 21-61
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April 16
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Ethics and Identity
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•Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, pp. 75-113
•Mariana Ortega, In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self, pp. 17-46
•María Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Traveling, and Loving Perception”
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April 30
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Native American Epistemology and Ethics
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•Brian Yazzie Burkhart, “What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us: An Outline of American Indian Epistemology,” in American Indian Thought, pp. 15-26
•Gregory Cajete, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, pp. 57-83
•Dennis McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb, “Values, Land, and the Integrity of the Person: Cross-Cultural Considerations,” in Indian from the Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal, pp. 94-125
•Anne Waters, “Structural Disadvantage and a Place at the Table”
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May 7
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Life, History, Identity
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•Wub-e-ke-niew, We Have the Right To Exist: A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought
--pp. xiii-liii, 1-9
--pp. 34-35, 54-57, 67-74, 78-96
--pp. 194-243
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