Barry Hallen
Biographic Data
| ID | 82025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Hallen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Hallen |
| SIGNATURE | HALLEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Morehouse College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Some comments on Africanising a philosophy curriculum
Students of African philosophy had best beware of two approaches to the subject that have been dismissed as flawed by most philosophers in and of Africa. One has been labelled “ethnophilosophy” because it does nothing more than report passively held beliefs in African cultures, sometimes identified as “traditions”, that are in its most extreme form said to be shared by all the peoples and cultures of Africa. A second flawed approach to African ph…
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
Barry Hallen, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture.Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, 256 pp., US39.95, ISBN 0 253 33806 9 hard covers, US$17.95 (£12.95), 0 253 21416 5 paperback. - Volume 73 Issue 2
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY Barry Hallen. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 20001. xiv + 219 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Barry Hallen. A Short History of African Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. ix + 130 pp. Bibliography. $29.95. Cloth. $14.95. Paper. What is important in a study such as this is to be careful-t…
A Short History of African Philosophy
In Memoriam: Keith Nicklin (1946-2002)
African Witchcraft and Otherness: A Philosophical and Theological Critique of Intersubjective Relations
Science and an African Logic
Does two and two equal four? Ask almost anyone and they will unequivocally answer yes. A basic equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? In this text, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question by looking at science, mathematics, and logic come to life in Yoruba primary school. Drawing on her experience as a teacher in Nigeria, Verran describes how she went from the radical conclusion that logic and maths are cu…
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
African Philosophy in a New Key
African Meanings, Western Words
African studies are often characterized as interdisciplinary in nature. One wonders whether, as time passes and specific disciplinary studies become distinguished by ever more technical methodologies, this will be less true. However, since the objects of study are entire cultures that are for the most part alien to the researchers who study them, this interdisciplinary spirit may well endure. With regard to the inventory of sub-disciplines within…
Some Observations about Philosophy, Postmodernism and Art in Contemporary African Studies
Within African studies, one of the few generalizations that may be hazarded-without qualification-is that no area has been more deliberately, consistently, indeed agonizingly self-critical than African philosophy. Western academic philosophy is supposedly well-known for identifying, evaluating and defending the presuppositions upon which it grounds itself. With respect to African philosophy, however, a clear consensus has yet to be reached-after …
Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
Foreword W. V. O. Quine Preface Barry Hallen Foreword Dorothy Emmet Introduction 1. Indeterminacy and the translation of alien behaviour 2. An African epistemology: the knowledge-belief distinction and Yoruba discourse 3. The secrecy of the 'aje ' Conclusion Afterword Barry Hallen Appendix Bibliography Index
Some Observations about Philosophy, Postmodernism and Art in Contemporary African Studies
Within African studies, one of the few generalizations that may be hazarded-without qualification-is that no area has been more deliberately, consistently, indeed agonizingly self-critical than African philosophy. Western academic philosophy is supposedly well-known for identifying, evaluating and defending the presuppositions upon which it grounds itself. With respect to African philosophy, however, a clear consensus has yet to be reached-after …
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
Barry Hallen, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture.Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, 256 pp., US39.95, ISBN 0 253 33806 9 hard covers, US$17.95 (£12.95), 0 253 21416 5 paperback. - Volume 73 Issue 2
African Witchcraft and Otherness: A Philosophical and Theological Critique of Intersubjective Relations
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY Barry Hallen. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 20001. xiv + 219 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Barry Hallen. A Short History of African Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. ix + 130 pp. Bibliography. $29.95. Cloth. $14.95. Paper. What is important in a study such as this is to be careful-t…
African Meanings, Western Words
African studies are often characterized as interdisciplinary in nature. One wonders whether, as time passes and specific disciplinary studies become distinguished by ever more technical methodologies, this will be less true. However, since the objects of study are entire cultures that are for the most part alien to the researchers who study them, this interdisciplinary spirit may well endure. With regard to the inventory of sub-disciplines within…
Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
Foreword W. V. O. Quine Preface Barry Hallen Foreword Dorothy Emmet Introduction 1. Indeterminacy and the translation of alien behaviour 2. An African epistemology: the knowledge-belief distinction and Yoruba discourse 3. The secrecy of the 'aje ' Conclusion Afterword Barry Hallen Appendix Bibliography Index
Some Observations about Philosophy, Postmodernism and Art in Contemporary African Studies
Within African studies, one of the few generalizations that may be hazarded-without qualification-is that no area has been more deliberately, consistently, indeed agonizingly self-critical than African philosophy. Western academic philosophy is supposedly well-known for identifying, evaluating and defending the presuppositions upon which it grounds itself. With respect to African philosophy, however, a clear consensus has yet to be reached-after …
African Meanings, Western Words
African studies are often characterized as interdisciplinary in nature. One wonders whether, as time passes and specific disciplinary studies become distinguished by ever more technical methodologies, this will be less true. However, since the objects of study are entire cultures that are for the most part alien to the researchers who study them, this interdisciplinary spirit may well endure. With regard to the inventory of sub-disciplines within…
African Philosophy in a New Key
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
In Memoriam: Keith Nicklin (1946-2002)
African Witchcraft and Otherness: A Philosophical and Theological Critique of Intersubjective Relations
Science and an African Logic
Does two and two equal four? Ask almost anyone and they will unequivocally answer yes. A basic equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? In this text, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question by looking at science, mathematics, and logic come to life in Yoruba primary school. Drawing on her experience as a teacher in Nigeria, Verran describes how she went from the radical conclusion that logic and maths are cu…
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
Barry Hallen, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture.Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, 256 pp., US39.95, ISBN 0 253 33806 9 hard covers, US$17.95 (£12.95), 0 253 21416 5 paperback. - Volume 73 Issue 2
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY Barry Hallen. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 20001. xiv + 219 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Barry Hallen. A Short History of African Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. ix + 130 pp. Bibliography. $29.95. Cloth. $14.95. Paper. What is important in a study such as this is to be careful-t…
A Short History of African Philosophy
Some comments on Africanising a philosophy curriculum
Students of African philosophy had best beware of two approaches to the subject that have been dismissed as flawed by most philosophers in and of Africa. One has been labelled “ethnophilosophy” because it does nothing more than report passively held beliefs in African cultures, sometimes identified as “traditions”, that are in its most extreme form said to be shared by all the peoples and cultures of Africa. A second flawed approach to African ph…
African cultural and philosophical studies (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works)