What Is Native to Philosophy

This response to Bruce Janz’s African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition (2023) uses the work of Martin Heidegger and Stanley Cavell to understand the relationship among philosophy, thinking, and place and, most crucially, Africa as a place from which philosophy might be thought, that is, might be proposed as native to philosophy. Invoking the late Heidegger, for whom thinking presents itself as the question, and Cavell’s use of Ralph Waldo Emerson as a thinker native to America, the difficulty is raised as to how these relations manifest themselves in Janz’s Enactivist Cognition

Enactivism · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Sociology · Western philosophy · African cultural and philosophical studies · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications