African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and the Social Sciences

This book is a symposium of leading voices addressing philosophical questions and considerations that psychological and other forms of social science research and practice raise. It will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in psychology, African studies, philosophy and social science.

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.