African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and the Social Sciences

African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and the Social Sciences is a symposium of leading voices addressing philosophical questions and considerations that psychological and other forms of social science research and practice raise.

In doing so, it offers a unique introduction to the philosophical understanding of the methods of social science research from the perspective of a range of African philosophers. There are many features of predominantly qualitative research that will be presented and considered in this book forming a repository of African philosophical writings that consider the nature and processes involved in qualitative, psychological, and social science research. The questions address include, but are not limited to, fundamental metaphysical questions, questions about the nature of the data or information that will be gathered and how this is collected, the types of enquiries being engaged and the form those enquiries may take, the position of the researcher within the research process coupled with reflexivity. African Philosophy and Psychology in Social Science is an up-to-date collection of essays on the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences from the perspective of philosophy that has developed and exists in Africa.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in psychology, African studies, philosophy and social science.

Paul M.W. Hackett has wide experience in social science and humanities research and is the originator of the declarative mapping approach to qualitative research. His research interests span many aspects of behaviour and experience focussing upon the investigation of ontologies and epistemologies that have originated in the African continent.

Husein Inusah is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Cape Coast Ghana. He earned his PhD from the University of Ghana in 2014 and received the 2015/16 University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor's Award for the Most Outstanding PhD Dissertation in the Humanities Category.

Ava Gordley-Smith is a PhD candidate at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Outside of her PhD research, Gordley-Smith focuses more broadly on both theoretical and applied methodologies in the social sciences, creative disciplines and communication studies.

Mirian Ngozi Alike, PhD, is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, and a Fellow of The Ife Institute of Advanced Studies. Her areas of expertise include Metaphysics and African Philosophy, with a special interest in Cultural Studies and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, she is conducting research on Gender Issues, Sustainable Pre-Colonial Religious Beliefs, and Racism against Africans.