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Shedding the Subaltern Condition: Karl Popper and the New Cosmopolitanism
One of the possible ways of conceptualising the overwhelming challenges now facing the countries of the African continent is to say that the people...
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Popper’s Critical Rationalism and the Legitimacy of an African Epistemic System
This paper examines the legitimacy of African knowledge system, in the light of Karl Popper’s Critical Rationalism, with a view to assessing whether...
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Tolerance, Multiculturalism and the Search for National Unity
Contemporary views of African states paint pictures of nation-states where the right not to tolerate the intolerant is erroneously applied, with...
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Popper’s Politics in the Light of African Values
Karl Popper is famous for favoring an open society, one in which the individual is treated as an end in himself and social arrangements are subjected...
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Interrogating Edmund Gettier’s Idea of Justification with Karl Popper’s Anti-Foundationalism
Karl Popper’s ‘non-foundationalist’ critical rationalism had been established before Edmund Gettier came up with his analysis of knowledge. Popper’s...
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General Conclusion
The essays in the present volume on Popper and Africa have made essential contributions to the cross-cultural study of Western and African...
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Correction to: Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development
This book was inadvertently published with the funder acknowledgment excluded in chapters 4 and 15.
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Karl Popper, Tribalism and the Question of Africa’s Development
In his Open Society and Its Enemies, Popper defends the enlightenment values of individual freedom against any form of totalitarianism. Popper likens...
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A Popperian Perspective on Poverty and Epistemic Injustice in Africa
This chapter investigates the problem of knowledge production on economic poverty in Africa as, largely, an instance of epistemic injustice. It...
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Towards an Ethos of Toleration in Multicultural Societies: The Significance of Popper’s Critical Rationalism
One fundamental challenge that most post-colonial African states have to grapple with is how to contain the pull of centrifugal forces emanating from...
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“How Far May We Tolerate the Intolerant?” Assessing Popper’s Reflections on Tolerance from the Nigerian Polity
Popper emphasizes that one makes her problem very clear in research. Following Popper, allow me to state clearly my problem – the skepticism tied to...
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Verificationism and Falsificationism from an African Indigenous Knowledge Perspective
As a consequence of his attack on the verification criterion which was employed by the Vienna Circle, Popper proposed an alternative through his idea...
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Situating Postcolonial Africa within Popper’s Critique of Nationalism
The resurgence of nationalist sentiments, from the United States to Europe as well as Africa has fuelled rising political divisions, the drift...
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Falsificationism: In Defence of the Scientific Status of Marxism
This paper attempts to justify the scientific status of Marxism within the parameter of Popper’s falsification principle as a methodology of science....
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Karl Popper on Nationalism and the Issue of Indigenization in Lagos
At the core of his liberal politics, Karl Popper rejected the idea of nationalism on the premise that it possesses a potential for totalitarianism....
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Karl Popper’s Critique of Nationalism: Exorcising Tribal Mentality in Modern African Society
Karl Popper believes that anti-nationalist posture enhances societal peace and harmony. He is therefore averse to tribalism most especially in a...
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General Introduction
This edited volume on Karl Popper’s philosophy adds to the existing literature in the study and the research of the central ideas of critical...
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Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development
This book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper’s critical rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of criticism on...
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Karl Popper, the Nigerian State and Democratic Consolidation
It is a truism that African states emerged from the ashes of colonialism. This historical circumstance has always compelled the inherited states of...
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The Distinctive Character of Popper’s Critical Rationalism
Popper was also a critic of the idea that it was possible – or necessary – to give a positive response to the problem of induction. He was also a...