On October 21-22 2024 the University of Tromsø (the Arctic University of Norway) will organize a «Conference on Non-Western and decolonial philososophy» («Konferanse om ikke-vestlig og dekolonial filosofi«). The global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud delivers the opening Keynote1 (in Norwegian) on Global Philosophy 101: Introduction to Written Philosophy from Africa, Asia, Meso-America, and Europe (Globalfilosofi 101: Introduksjon til skriftlig filosofi fra Afrika, Asia, Meso-Amerika og Europa), on Monday October […]
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As of March 2020, five articles of the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI) have been listed at the website of «Pieces on Non-‘Western’ Philosophy: for a General Audience: A List.» This list of texts on philosophy is made by Abiral Chitrakar Phuyal, New York University/Shanghai. LINK. The 5 texts of Herbjørnsrud: General/comparative: ‘First women of philosophy’, Aeon, 23 November, 2018. Africa: ‘The African Enlightenment’, Aeon, 13 December, 2017 Africa: ‘The […]
On the 25th of February 2020, Yale NUS professor Bryan W Van Norden held the lecture «Learning from Chinese Philosophy» at the Intercultural Museum of Oslo (IKM), Norway. Media coverage of the event: Molo (29.02.20), the student journal of history of ideas at the University of Oslo (UiO): «Er mainstream akademisk filosofi rasistisk?» (Is mainstream academic philosophy racist?) Utrop (27.02.20), the multicultural paper of Norway: «– Norge kan lære av […]
In December 2019, the leading French magazine Sciences Humaines (edition Historie) has published the article «L’histoire oubliée des pensées africaines» (The forgotten history of African ideas) by the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI). This text is part of a larger special issue on Africa – see list of content (sommaire). The article covers texts from Egypt (Kemet) – like the 3,700-year-old lamenation by Ankhu (ca 1700 […]
The Aeon essay «The African Enlightenment« (Dec 2017) by SGOKI founder Dag Herbjørnsrud, is now translated into French and published in the 100th issue (September 2019) of the renowned magazine Books. The article, which covers the African philosophers Zera Yacob (1599-1672) of Ethiopia and Anton Wilhelm Amo (b. ca. 1703-d. after 1753), has received the title «Zara Yaqob, plus fort que Descartes« (excerpts below). Dec 24, 2017 the essay was […]
News – spring semester of 2019: I. January 2019: The Aeon essay «Before the canon: The non-European women who founded Philosophy», written by Dag Herbjornsrud, has been put on the reading schedule of «Introduction to Philosophy: Who is a philosopher?» at Georgetown University, Washington DC, spring 2019. The course is held by professor Bryce Huebner. Description of the course «Introduction to Philosophy»: «You probably have some idea of what philosophy is, […]
«New research indicates that Plato and Aristotle were right: Philosophy and the term “love of wisdom” hail from Egypt.» A new text by the historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud at the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Dec 17th 2018: «The Radical Philosophy of Egypt: Forget God and Family, Write!» Excerpts: «A remarkable example of classical Egyptian philosophy is found in a 3,200-year-old text named “The Immortality of Writers.” […]
This summer, Peter Adamson (Univ of Munich, Germany) and Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie Univ, Canada) have made an episode on the Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob (1599-1693) and his treatise Inquiry (Hatäta, 1667). This episode on Zera Yacob is part of the Africana philosophy series, which is included in the podcast History of Philosophy without any gaps (HoPwag). At the end of «Further reading», Adamson and Jeffers writes: «Blog post on the Hatata, […]