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African Mind, Culture, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives

Autor Yamikani Ndasauka
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iul 2024
This book provides a philosophical investigation of technology in Africa, articulating conceptual foundations and analyses rooted in African worldviews and communitarian values. It aims to spur discourse and understanding of how technology can be justly shaped for human advancement in Africa. Yamikani Ndasauka highlights the need to understand African conceptions of existence, ethics, and values as foundations for envisioning more humanistic technological applications. A historical contextualisation traces the layered origins of African technology philosophy in indigenous innovation, resistant adaptation of external systems, and creative fusion of endogenous and exogenous knowledge. The book develops African frameworks to assess and design technology in accord with human dignity and collective advancement.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031629785
ISBN-10: 3031629787
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: XI, 185 p. 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Why African Philosophy of Technology?.- Chapter 2: Historical Origins of Technology in Africa.- Chapter 3: Decoding the Digital Revolution.- Chapter 4: Technologising Tradition or Traditionalising Technology?.- Chapter 5: Rethinking Technology Through African Philosophy.- Chapter 6: An African Social Constructivism of Technology.- Chapter 7: Harmonising Technology and Humanity through Ubuntu.- Chapter 8: The Spirits in the Machine.- Chapter 9: African Philosophy and the Quest for Just Technologies.

Notă biografică

Yamikani Ndasauka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Malawi.

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This book provides a philosophical investigation of technology in Africa, articulating conceptual foundations and analyses rooted in African worldviews and communitarian values. It aims to spur discourse and understanding of how technology can be justly shaped for human advancement in Africa. Yamikani Ndasauka highlights the need to understand African conceptions of existence, ethics, and values as foundations for envisioning more humanistic technological applications. A historical contextualisation traces the layered origins of African technology philosophy in indigenous innovation, resistant adaptation of external systems, and creative fusion of endogenous and exogenous knowledge. The book develops African frameworks to assess and design technology in accord with human dignity and collective advancement.
Yamikani Ndasauka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Malawi.

Caracteristici

Fills a knowledge gap, as academic literature lacks comprehensive work discussing African perspectives on technology Argues for decolonising technology by valuing African voices, perspectives Distills insights and principles to shape future African philosophies and policies on technology