This week’s slidesHAP 02 — Historical Methods
Read with the three histories in view. For each reading ask: what is the fact and its evidence (History 1); what theory turns the evidence into support (History 2); what conception had to be in place for the question to arise at all (History 3).
Readings
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. “The Òrìṣà Legal Tradition.” Philosophia Africana 20(2), 2021: 107–128. PDF — §3 on the three senses of culture (communal practices, individual beliefs, practical beliefs) and Herskovits’ eight characteristics: the framework this week uses.
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account. Ìrókò Academic Publishers, 2006. (Introduction)
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. “Reason versus Ian Hacking’s Styles of Scientific Reasoning.”
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. “Culture and the Principles of Biomedical Ethics.” Journal of Commercial Biotechnology 19(3), 2013: 31–39.
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. “Questions and Answers: The Logic of Preliminary Fact Investigation.” Journal of Law and Society 29(4), 2002: 533–559.
- Outlaw, Lucius T. “Africana Philosophy.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.