Kwasi Wiredu
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Wiredu, Kwasi (day/month/1931 - )
Wiredu is a professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida since 1987.
He was born in Ghana and studied Philosophy at the University of Ghana (B.A. 1958), and Oxford (B.Phil. 1960). At Oxford, his thesis supervisor was Gilbert Ryle. His special tutor was Stuart Hampshire.
Wiredu taught at the University of Ghana for 23 years (from 1961 to 1984). He has held visiting professorships at the University of California, Los Angeles (1979-1980); University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1984); University of Richmond, Virginia (N.E.H. Distinguished Professor, Spring 1985); Carleton College, Minnesota (Donald J. Cowling Visiting Professor, Fall 1986); and Duke University, North Carolina (1994-95 and 1999-2001). He has also held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1985) and the National Humanities Center, North Carolina (Spring 1986).
He was a member of the Committee of Directors of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies from 1983-1998 and is an Advisory Board Member of African Americans for Humanism.
Selected Writings
- Philosophy and an African Culture (Cambridge University Press. 1980).
- Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, with Kwame Gyekye (Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, New York, 1992.
- Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996)
- A Companion to African Philosophy, editor (Blackwell, 2004).
