Philosopher

Kwasi Wiredu

Overview

Kwasi Wiredu (3 October 1931 – 6 January 2022) was a Ghanaian philosopher. Often called the greatest African philosopher of his generation, his work contributed to the conceptual decolonisation of African thought.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Ideas Kwasi Wiredu discusses

• Gilbert Ryle
• African philosophy
• Le Monde
• Immanuel Kant
• Akan people
• John Dewey
• Plato
• P. F. Strawson
• United States
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Bertrand Russell
• David Hume
• Epistemology
• University of Ghana

Place in the tradition

Part of Akan philosophy.

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