Paulin Hountondji and the Science Question in Africa

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Paulin Hountondji and the Science Question in Africa is written by Zeyad el Nabolsy and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031897757 (ISBN 10) and 9783031897757 (ISBN 13).

This book offers a systematic reconstruction of Paulin Hountondji’s contributions to the debate about the place of modern science on the African continent. The book shows that Hountondji develops an account of modern science that is sociologically sensitive to the entanglement between modern science and colonialism on the African continent without falling into epistemic relativism about the claims of modern science. It is argued that Hountondji’s views on modern science express a strong historical materialist influence, and that he develops a theory of science that draws both on the Hessen-Grossmann hypothesis and dependency theory. Thus, this book brings together two strands of historical materialist thought about science that have hitherto been isolated from one another. This book is of interest to scholars who specialize in African philosophy, history and philosophy of science, global philosophy, and African studies.