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Name

Dr. Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam

Department

Philosophy

Designation

Senior Lecturer

Email

[email protected]


About Dr. Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam

Jonathan Chimakonam Okeke Ph.D, is a senior lecturer at the University of Calabar. His teaching and research interests include Logic, African Philosophy, Comparative/intercultural philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Maths, Bioethics, Philosophy of Mind and Postmodern thought. His articles have appeared in journals such as Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Confluence, Journal of World Philosophies, South African Journal of Philosophy, Thought and Practice, African Studies Quarterly, Ufahamu, Online Journal of Health Ethics, Journal of Pan African Studies, Phronimon, Polylog, Filosofia Theoretica, Philosophia Africana, Dialogue and Universalism, etc. He is author and editor of some books including the award-winning Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis and Values in African Philosophy (by Ada Agada), Minnesota: Paragon House, 2015 (CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2015); and Atuolu Omalu: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy (New York Lanham: University Press of America, 2015). He has many book chapters. He is the convener of the professional African Philosophy body, The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP) and the founding editor of Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions. He was a winner of Jens Jacobsen Research Award for Outstanding Research in Philosophy ($1,500) by the International Society for Universal Dialogue conferred at the Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland (July 2016). He is African Philosophy Area Editor in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Dr Chimakonam propounded the theories of Conversational thinking and Ezumezu Logic. He is the postgraduate and undergraduate external examiner to the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Pretoria both in South Africa. He is currently collaborating on different book projects with Chinese, Zimbabwean and South African colleagues. Chimakonam has given several international keynote conference addresses around the world. He is a member of a good number of professional philosophical bodies including The Nigerian Philosophical Association.


S/N Qualification School Atttended Started Finished
First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC)United Primary School, Oba, Anambra State, Nigeria19881994
West African Examination Council (WAEC)Merchants of Light Secondary School, Oba, Anambra State, Nigeria19952000
B.A (Hons)Ebonyi State University, Ebonyi State 20012005
M.A. (Logic)University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria20072009
Ph.D (Mathematical Logic) University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria 20092012

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Chimakonam, J. O. (2020). Where Are We in the Global Poverty Measurement? The Human Minimum Model as a Veritable Option. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 55(4), 509-521.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Awugosi, C. I. (2020). Afro-communitarianism and the question of individual freedom. Philosophia (Philippines), 21(1), 34-49.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Agada A. (2020). The Sexual Orientation Question in Nigeria: Cultural Relativism Versus Universal Human Rights Concerns. Sexuality & Culture: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 24, 1705–1719
Chimakonam, J. O. (2020). Are digital technologies transforming humanity and making politics impossible?. Dialogue and Universalism, 30(1), 209-223.
Rodrigues, L., & Chimakonam, J. O. (2020). The South African Land Question in Light of Nelson Mandela’s Political Thought. African Studies, 79(2), 250-265.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2019). Addressing the Problem of Mass Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: Conversational Thinking as a Tool for Inclusive Development. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 8(1), 141-161
Egbai, U. O., & Chimakonam, J. O. (2019). Why Conversational Thinking Could be an Alternative Method for Intercultural Philosophy. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40(2), 172-189.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2019). Why the Racial Politic of Colour-branding should be Discontinued. Phronimon, 20, 1-24
Egbai, U., & Chimakonam, J. O. (2019). Protecting the rights of victims in transitional justice: An interrogation of amnesty. African Human Rights Law Journal, 19,. 608-623.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2018). Why we should explore the metaphysical, epistemological and logical dimensions of African philosophy. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 7(3), 1-8.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Nweke, V. C. (2018). Afro-communitarianism and the Question of Rights. Theoria, 65(4), 78-99
Chimakonam, J. O., & Nweke, V. C. (2018). Why the ‘Politics’ against African Philosophy should be Discontinued. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 57(2), 277-301
Chimakonam, J. O. (2018). Can Individual Autonomy and Rights be Defended in Afro-communitarianism. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 7(2), 106-121
Chimakonam, J. O. (2018). Africans Are Not Black: The case for conceptual liberation. African Identities, DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2018.1473149
Chimakonam J. O., & Ndubuisi O. (2018). African Studies through Linguistic Techniques. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 7(1), 101-124
Chimakonam, J. O. (2017). What is Conversational Philosophy? A Prescription of a New Theory and Method of Philosophising in and Beyond African Philosophy. [Phronimon], 18, 115-130
Chimakonam, J. O. (2017). Conversationalism as an Emerging Method of Thinking in and Beyond African Philosophy. Acta Academica, 2,11-33,
Chimakonam J. O. (2017). Conversationalism as an Emerging Method of Thinking in and Beyond African Philosophy, [Acta Academica], 2, 11-33.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2016). The End of Ubuntu or its beginning in Matolino-Kwindingwi-Metz debate: An exercise in Conversational Philosophy. South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(2), 224-234.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Egbai, O. U. (2016). The Value of Conversational Thinking in Building a Decent World: The Perspective of Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa. Dialogue and Universalism, XXVI(4), 105-117.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Etieyibo, E. (2016). African Philosophy, Past, Present and Future. Philosophia Africana, Special Issue. 18(1), 1-7. DOI: 10.5840/philafricana20161811
Chimakonam, J. O. (2016). Globalisation Versus Ibuanyidanda Ontology: Confronting the Tension Between The “Self” And The “Other”. Phronimon, 17(1), 140-157.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2016). Can the Philosophy Curriculum be Africanised? An Examination of the Prospects and Challenges of some Models of Africanisation. South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(4), 513-522.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2016). Conversational philosophy as a new school of thought in African philosophy: a conversation with Bruce Janz on the concept of ‘philosophical space. Journal of world philosophies, (formerly Confluence: Journal of world philosophies, 3, 9-40
Chimakonam, J. O. (2016). The End of Ubuntu or its beginning in Matolino-Kwindingwi-Metz debate: An exercise in Conversational Philosophy. South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(2), 224-234.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2015). Reconciliation and Justice in F. U. Okafor’s Igbo-African Thought and its Relevance to Modern Political Thought: Toward a Sequence Theory. Polylog: Journal of Inter-cultural Philosophy, 34, 245-268.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Ogbonnaya L. (2015). A Conceptual and Contextual Meaning of “Mmadu” in the Igbo Reality Scheme. Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 34(3-4), 268-285.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2015). Transforming the African philosophical place through conversations: An inquiry into the Global Expansion of Thought (GET). South African Journal of Philosophy, 34(4), 462-479.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Agbo J. N. (2015). Democratising in Excess: A Marxist Interpretation of the Jasmine Revolutions in North Africa.” Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, 38(2), 57-84.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2015). Olufemi Taiwo’s Africa must be Modern. African Studies Quarterly,15(2), 134-136.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2015). Metric System in Igbo Thought: A Systematization. Igbo Studies Review, 3, 35-60
Chimakonam, J. O. (2015). Addressing Uduma’s Africanness of a Philosophy Question and Shifting the Paradigm from Metaphilosophy to Conversational Philosophy. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religion, 4(1), 33-50
Chimakonam, J. O. (2015). Transforming the African philosophical place through conversations: An inquiry into the Global Expansion of Thought (GET). South African Journal of Philosophy, 34(4), 462-479.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2015). Conversational philosophy as a new school of thought in African philosophy: a conversation with Bruce Janz on the concept of ‘philosophical space. Journal of world philosophies, (formerly Confluence: Journal of world philosophies, 3, 9-40.
Chimakonam, J. O., Nzie, A., & J. N. Agbo. (2014). The Nemesis of Individualistic Ontology in Globalisation to the Practice of Liberal Democracy in the Post-Colonial Africa. Journal of Pan African Studies, 7(4), 137-155.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2014). Gloria Chuku’s The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African Diasporic Thought. African Studies Quarterly, 14(4), 88-91
Chimakonam, J. O., (2014). Philosophy and Economic Injustice in Nigeria. Philosophy Study, 4(7), 473-482
Chimakonam, J. O. (2014). Interrogatory Theory: Patterns of Social Deconstruction, Reconstruction and the Conversational Order in African Philosophy. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 3(1), 1-25.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2014). Ududo Reasoning in African Thought: A Postmodern Formalist Method for Logic. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 3(2), 90-105
Chimakonam, J. O. (2014). Postmodern thinking as an epistemological revolution: An exposition, Sophia: An African Journal of Philosophy, 14(2),19-27.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2014). Interrogatory Theory: Patterns of Social Deconstruction, Reconstruction and the Conversational Order in African Philosophy”. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 3(1), 1-25.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Nzie A. S. (2013). The Epistemology of Womanhood: Ignored Contentions among Igbo Women of Eastern Nigeria. Thought and Practice: Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya. New Series, 5 (2), 57-7.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2013). Terminator Technology: Revisiting the Biotechnologist’s Claim to feed the World. Online Journal of Health Ethics, University of Southern Mississippi, 9(1), 1-13.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2013). Integrative Humanism: Extensions and Clarifications. Journal of Integrative Humanism, 3(1), 73-83
Chimakonam, J. O. (2013). Quantification in African Logic. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 2(2), 409-422.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2013). Idea of African Numeric System. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religion, 2(1), 223-238.
Chimakonam, J. O. & Akpan, C. (2012). An Inquiry into the Moral Question of Xenotransplantation. Online Journal of Health Ethics, University of Southern Mississippi, 8(1), 1-13.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Kanu, A. (2012), The Woes of Scientific Realism. Afreev Stech, Int.l Jour. of Science and Tech, 1(2), 32-44.
Chimakonam, J. O., & Animalu, A. (2012). 4x4 Magic Square Representation of Complementary Duality of African Three-Valued Thought Logic. African Journal of Physics, 5, 141-168
Chimakonam, J. O., & Kanu, A. I. (2012). Empiricism versus Rationalism: Matters Arising in Medical Practice. Afreev Stech: An International Journal of Science and Technology, 1(3), 186-201
Chimakonam, J. O. (2012). Triangular Epistemology: In Defense of Positive Skepticism. Journal of Integrative Humanism, 2(1), 108-120
Chimakonam, J. O. (2011). Dissecting the Character of Danda the Ant and Neutralising the Philosophy of Missing Links: An Egbe n’ Ugo Conundrum. Journal of Complementary Reflection: Studies in Asouzu, 1(1), 41-45
Chimakonam, J. O. (2011). An Investigation into the Nature of Mathematical Meaning. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religion, 1(1), 1- 38.
Chimakonam, J. O. (2011). Mental Surgery: Another Look at the Identity Problem. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religion. 1(1), 195-208
Chimakonam, J. O. (2011). Why Can’t There be an African Logic?. Integrative Humanism Journal, 1(2), 141-152
Chimakonam, J. O., Asuo, O., & Agu, S. (2011). Philosophy and Method of Integrative Humanism: A Response. Integrative Humanism Journal, 1(1), 49-60.

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Third World Congress on Research and Development. International Research and Development Institute, held at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Outline of African Logic for the Development of Thought in Africa.2011-10-252011-10-28
Third World Congress on Research and Development. International Research and Development Institute, held at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Outline of African Logic for the Development of Thought in Africa.2011-10-252011-10-28
2nd International Philosophy Conference and Homecoming organized by Department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Project on African Logic, from Thought System to Algorithmic Model: Impact on Science, Technology and Human Development.2011-11-302011-12-03
2nd International Philosophy Conference and Homecoming organized by Department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Project on African Logic, from Thought System to Algorithmic Model: Impact on Science, Technology and Human Development.2011-11-302011-12-03
Eighth International Conference on Sustainable Development, IRDI Conference at the University of Abuja, FCT. On the Resolution of the Entscheidungsproblem (Decision Problem) of First-Order Logic: A Recursive Approach.2012-02-062012-02-09
International Conference/Chinua Achebe Annual Lectures, Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, NsukkaMeaning: a Logical Derivation, Formulation.2012-04-232012-04-26
Seventh International Conference on Development Studies held at International Research and Development Institute, University of Nigeria NsukkaEpistemology of Womanhood, Contending the Uncontended Among the Igbo Women of Eastern Nigeria.2012-04-232012-04-26
International Conference/Chinua Achebe Annual Lectures, Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, NsukkaMeaning: a Logical Derivation, Formulation.2012-04-232012-04-26
Seventh International Conference on Development Studies held at International Research and Development Institute, University of Nigeria NsukkaEpistemology of Womanhood, Contending the Uncontended Among the Igbo Women of Eastern Nigeria.2012-04-232012-04-26
2012 Annual Conference of the Faculty of Arts, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Science beyond Morality: A case Against Xenotransplantation.2012-05-032012-05-06
2012 Annual Conference of the Faculty of Arts, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Science beyond Morality: A case Against Xenotransplantation.2012-05-032012-05-06
Nigerian Philosophical Association Biennial Conference. University of Abuja The Logic of African Logic: Matters Arising.2012-10-202012-10-24
Nigerian Philosophical Association Biennial Conference. University of Abuja The Logic of African Logic: Matters Arising.2012-10-202012-10-24
An International Conference in Honour of Dr. Oladipo Fashina, Department of Philosophy, OAU, Ile-IfeChimakonam, J. O. & Ogah, J. N. Democratic Leadership in Nigeria (Fourth Republic): A Loss of the Ideals of Nationalism2013-05-072013-05-09
An International conference ‘50 Years of OAU/AU: Revisiting the Questions of African Unity, Identity and Development’. Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. The 19th Annual Conference of International Society f Principles of Indigenous Igbo-African Logic: Toward Africa’s Development and Restoration of African Identity.2013-05-272013-05-29
The 11th Annual Conference of the Igbo Studies Association on “Ohaka: The Community is Supreme” Held at Modotel, Enugu, NigeriaMetric System in Igbo Thought Long Before the Arrival of the Europeans: A Systematisation.2013-06-272013-06-29
The 11th Annual Conference of the Igbo Studies Association on “Ohaka: The Community is Supreme” Held at Modotel, Enugu, NigeriaMetric System in Igbo Thought Long Before the Arrival of the Europeans: A Systematisation.2013-06-272013-06-29
World Congress of Commuicap, St. Augustine College Johannesburg, South AfricaDisordered Society: Philosophy and Economic Injustice in Nigeria2013-11-132013-11-17
The Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA), The Free State University, Bloemfontein, South Africa Ezumezu: A Variant of Three-valued Logic: Insights and Controversies. 2014-01-202014-01-22
Nigerian Philosophical Association 2014 Biennial Meeting and International Conference University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba-Lagos, Theme: Nigeria, Hundred Years After: Philosophical Issues and Perspectives. Chimakonam, J. O. & Ogar, I. M. An Interrogation of One Hundred Years of Nationhood: How Religion Has Derailed Nigeria’s Development2014-10-152014-10-18
5th International Colloquium by Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria.(Re)Conciliation and Justice in F. U. Okafor’s Igbo-African Thought and its Relevance to Modern Political Thought: Toward a Sequence Theory2015-05-202015-05-22
International Conference on ⦁ African Philosophical and Intellectual Responses to the Development Crisis in Africa by Center for Research in Values and Philosophy in collaboration with Ebonyi State University, AbakalikiBuilding A Knowledge Society for Africa’s Development: Revisiting the Question of Modernity in the Light of African Philosophy.2015-06-102015-06-14
International Conference on African Philosophy, Past, Present and Future, Department of Philosophy, University of Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe Demise of Philosophical Universalism and the Rise of Conversational Philosophy.”2015-09-092015-09-11
International Conference on African Philosophy, Past, Present and Future, Department of Philosophy, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa The State of African Philosophy in Africa”, with Edwin Etieyibo.2015-09-092015-09-11
International Colloquium on Just War, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaNdubisi as an Imperative of Igbo-African Ethical Paradigm: Revisiting the Morality of War.2016-04-042016-04-06
Transitional Justice and Alternative Mechanisms for Peace. Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch (South Africa)Protecting the Rights of Victims in Transitional Justice: An Interrogation of Amnesty.2016-04-082016-04-09
The International Society for Universal Dialogue ISUD XI World Congress on Values and Ideals: Theory and Praxis. The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Warsaw, and the Philosophy for Dialogue FoChimakonam, J. O. & Egbai U. O. The Value of Conversational Thinking in Building a Decent World: The Perspective of Postcolonial Africa.2016-07-112016-07-15
An International Colloquium on "Marginalisation in African Philosophy: Women and Environment". The University of Calabar Nigeria Ohanife: An African Account of the Eco-system.2016-09-202016-09-23
An International Colloquium on "Marginalisation in African Philosophy: Women and Environment". The University of Calabar Nigeria Ohanife: An African Account of the Eco-system.2016-09-202016-09-23
An International Conference on "Society- State- Violence: what keeps us together"  6th Symposium Dürnstein, AustriaViolence and Unity in a Complex Society: Engaging Ethnicism And Religious Fanaticism In Nigeria.2017-03-092017-03-11
Philosophy in the Desert Conference on Comparative Philosophy at the Crossroads: The Possibilities for Comparative Discourse Today, School of Arts and Sciences, American University in Dubai, Dubai (United Arab Emirates)Why Conversationalism Could be an Effective Method for Intercultural Philosophy.2017-04-062017-04-08
International Conference on Dimensions of Poverty. Centre for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata, Goethe University Frankfurt, Free University of Berlin, Berlin GermanyIs the Debate on Poverty Research A Global One? A Consideration of Odera Oruka’s ‘Human Minimum’ As A Case of Epistemic Injustice and A Call for Conversational Thinking.2017-06-072017-06-09
International Conference on Contemporary Language, Logic, and Metaphysics: African and Western Approaches. Why we should go beyond Linguistic Rebellion in African philosophy: A Case for Linguistic Dis-structuring”, CLLM Conference University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa2017-08-142017-08-16
Second African Philosophy World Conference. University of Calabar, Nigeria. Why Conversational Philosophy Is The Future of African Philosophy.2017-10-122017-10-14
Second African Philosophy World Conference. University of Calabar, Nigeria. Why Conversational Philosophy Is The Future of African Philosophy.2017-10-122017-10-14
Philosophers Association of Nigeria (PAN) Researchers Workshop on “Teaching Philosophy at Pre-tertiary Levels. University of Lagos, Nigeria.2018-05-142018-05-15
International Colloquium on Inclusive Development: Greater China and beyond, Hang Seng University College, Hong KongAddressing the Problem of Mass Poverty in the Sub-Saharan Africa: Conversational Thinking as a Strategy for Inclusive Development2018-08-102018-08-12
World Congress of Philosophy on “Learning to be Human,” Peking University, Beijing China. August 13-21, 2018. Paper Presented “The Location of Wonder in African Philosophy.2018-08-132018-08-21
An International Colloquium for Professor Oladele Abiodun Balogun at 50, on “African Philosophy, Culture and the Future of Africa.” Held at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, near Lagos State, NigeriaIs Africa a Slur? Why the Continent ‘Africa’ should be Renamed.2018-11-192018-11-20
An International Colloquium for Professor Oladele Abiodun Balogun at 50, on “African Philosophy, Culture and the Future of Africa.” Held at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, near Lagos State, NigeriaIs Africa a Slur? Why the Continent ‘Africa’ should be Renamed.2018-11-192018-11-20
16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST), Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Technical University, PragueDecolonising Scientific Knowledge Morality, Politics and a New Logic.2019-08-052019-08-10
Third African Philosophy World Conference, University of Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaWhat is this thing called Conversational Thinking?2019-10-282019-10-30