Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics

Grivas Muchineripi Kayange is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Out-going Dean of Humanities at Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He was a visiting scholar at the Center of Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006 and a Post-graduate visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh from 2008 to 2009. He graduated in philosophy at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome in 2007. His expertise includes Theories/logic and practice, African philosophy, Analytic philosophy, and Ethics. He has done research and published in different areas since 2008; some of his most recent books include; Meaning and Truth in African Philosophy (2018), Capitalism and Freedom in African Philosophy (2020), Co-editor Addiction in East and Southern Africa (2020), and Ethics in Malawi (2021). Some of his commonly read articles include ‘Restoration of Ubuntu as an Autocentric Virtue-Phronesis Theory’ (2020), ‘Rethinking African Analytic Philosophy: A Perspectival Approach’ (2019), and ‘An Alternative to Giere’s Perspectival Realism’ (2019).

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Chapter 1. General introduction.- Chapter 2. Subject-verb-object ontology.- Chapter 3. Action-Language Ontology.- Chapter 4. The question of space and time in analytic metaphysics.- Chapter 5. Modality.- Chapter 6. Causation in analytic metaphysics.- Chapter 7. Determinism and Indeterminism: Freedom of actions.- Chapter 8. Body and mind metaphysics.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.