I argue in this chapter that commitment to the holistic perspectives in the vital force tradition advanced by African philosophers like Kwame Gyekye, Motsamai Molefe, and Ada Agada motivates the reconceptualisation of the vital force in terms of an ubiquitous consciousness principle. I point out that this reconceptualisation of the concept of vital force presents panpsychism as an attractive...
Consolationism is an emergent intellectual current in 21st century African philosophy that presents itself as an alternative constructive framework for metaphysics, with an epistemic foundation in the African thought-world and being universally applicable. In this paper, I trace the influences of consolationism within African philosophy, and argue that this original philosophical system is the...