Jonathan Chimakonam

Dr. Jonathan O. Chimakonam obtained his doctorate from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. He specializes in Logic and African Philosophy. A member of The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA), the Nigerian Philosophical Association (NPA), International Organisation for Scientific Research (IOSR) and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) to name a few. He has published vastly on African philosophy and thought including his 2012 book Introducing African Science: Systematic and Philosophical Approach (Bloomington Indiana). He is the producing author of Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis and Values in African Philosophy (Minnesota: Paragon House), a co-author of Njikoka Amaka: Further Discussions on the Philosophy of Integrative Humanism (A Contribution to African and Intercultural Philosophies) – London: 3rd Logic Option Publishing (2014). He has presented a number of conference papers including “Building African logic as an Algorithm for Africa’s Development’. Presented at African Studies Institute Conference, The University of Georgia USA Nov. 8-10, 2012 and “Ezumezu: A Variant of Three-valued Logic-Insights and Controversies” paper presented at the annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, The Free State University, Bloemfontein South Africa, Jan, 2014. Some of his works on African thought have appeared on the Journal of Pan African Studies, African Studies Quarterly, etc. He is the editor of Atuolu Omalu: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy (New York Lanham: University Press of America, 2015) and the Editor of Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis and Values in African Philosophy by Ada Agada (Mineasota: Paragon House, 2015 He is also the Area Editor, African Philosophy in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Martin. Dr. Chimakonam is currently leading a team of researchers that are working on the first Dictionary of African Philosophy project at the Calabar School of Philosophy. Recently honoured and described by Sun Newspaper Nigeria (National Daily) as “the Philosopher with an African Lens” (cf. May 12, 2013 p. 32). He has presented a couple of conference papers within and outside Nigeria. He teaches at the University of Calabar, Nigeria where he is the convener of the intellectual forum, The Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP). He is the current editor of Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions.

The Calabar School of Philosophy is an intellectual forum based at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. It promotes social, African and intercultural philosophies and studies and encourages African thinkers to aspire to inform, critique and develop their societies through rigorous and dialogical individual thinking and engagements of social institutions using the reflective method of Interrogatory Theory. The watch word of the CSP is: “the problems which the philosophers cannot solve, they can at least prevent”. Website: www.csp.unical.edu.ng; email: [email protected]