Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence

這本書提供了對當代非洲哲學思想的初步瞭解，涵蓋了與心靈與身體關係、意識問題、人工智慧倫理、生命意義及其他主題相關的議題。這本書受到非洲哲學對話傳統的啟發，不僅與傳統非洲思想互動並汲取靈感，還與哲學傳統之外的哲學觀點進行交流，以期呈現對本書核心問題的全面理解。本書對專業的非洲哲學家、心靈哲學家、人工智慧哲學家、本科及研究生哲學學生，以及非洲研究學者均具相關性。

Aribiah David Attoe

Dr Aribiah David Attoe is currently a Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa. He has (co)authored several articles, encyclopedia entry, book chapters and books, one of which includes; Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity (Palgrave, 2022). He also guest-edited the first ever book-length literature/special issue on "African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life", published by the South African Journal of Philosophy, and his forthcoming book, The Question of Life's Meaning: An African Perspective, will be the first-ever book on African conceptions of the Meaning of Life. He is also a member of the prestigious Conversational School of Philosophy. Dr Attoe has been on the cutting edge of research in African metaphysics, African Philosophy of Religion and African Conceptions of Meaning. His other interests include Ethics and Social and political philosophy.

Samuel T. Segun

Samuel T. Segun research includes the ethics of artificial intelligence with a focus on computational ethics, African intellectual development, and philosophy of mind with specific focus on neurophilosophy and consciousness. Samuel's doctoral research focused on developing a robust ethical theory for autonomous intelligent systems that is informed by African values and rivals Western approaches. He is a member and Research Fellow of the Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP), and a Research Associate of the AI for Social Good working group at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), University of Pretoria.

Amongst ST Segun's publications are "From machine ethics to computational ethics" in AI & Society; "Criticially engaging the ethics of AI for a global audience" in Ethics and Information Technology, where he served as Lead Guest Editor for the special issue on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. He is also the coauthor of the book New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019).

Victor Nweke

Victor Nweke is currently a researcher/Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. His major research interest includes African philosophy, global normative theory, intercultural philosophy, and philosophy of logic. He is working on his Ph.D. as a member of a multidisciplinary normative project, 'Diversity, Power and Justice: Transcultural Perspectives', funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the German Research Foundation). His peer-reviewed publications (articles and chapters in academic journals and edited books) attempt to interrogate and (re)conceptualize articulate perspectives on right conduct and optimal human flourishing using salient ideas in African philosophy as a crucial point of departure. Victor is also an affiliate researcher with the Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP), University of Calabar, Nigeria, as well as an Alumni of the HASTAC Scholars Program (Class of 2016-2018).

Umezurike J. Ezugwu

Umezurike J. Ezugwu is a research fellow, Conversational Society of Philosophy. He did his first degree in the Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. He obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees in the Department of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. During this period, he taught, as a part-time lecturer, two General Studies Courses, Philosophy and Logic, and History and Philosophy of Science. Currently, he is a lecturer in Nigeria Maritime University. Here, he lectures Philosophy and Logic, History and Philosophy of Science and Nigeria Peoples and Culture. He is an appointed member of Research and Development Committee and a Co-Editor of International Journal of Maritime and Interdisciplinary Research (IJMIR), Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Nigeria. He has contributed different chapters in books, attended national and international conferences, and has published in both local and international journals. His research interests include but are not limited to African Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Ethics and History and Philosophy of Science.

Jonathan Chimakonam

Jonathan O Chimakonam has published extensively in the areas of African philosophy, African logic, African Philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of several articles and books, including New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019); Ezumezu Logic: A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies (Springer 2019); Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays in African Systems of Thought (Vernon Press 2020); African Ethics: A Guide to Key Ideas (Bloomsbury 2022); and African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy (Palgrave 2021). He is a second-generation member of the prestigious Calabar School. He is a major proponent of the system of conversational thinking, its method, philosophy and a system of logic called Ezumezu that grounds it. He is the African philosophy Area Editor of the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and the editor of Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions. Chimakonam has mentored and continues to mentor many young African academics.

**Aribiah David Attoe**

Aribiah David Attoe 博士目前是威特沃特斯蘭大學的講師，曾擔任非洲領導倫理中心的博士後研究員。他（共同）撰寫了多篇文章、百科全書條目、書籍章節和書籍，其中之一是《新型非洲形而上學的基礎：預定歷史性的概念》（Palgrave, 2022）。他還擔任了南非哲學期刊首次出版的以「非洲生命意義的概念」為主題的書籍長篇文獻/特刊的客座編輯，他即將出版的書籍《生命意義的問題：非洲視角》將是首本探討非洲生命意義概念的書籍。他也是著名的對話哲學學派的成員。Attoe 博士在非洲形而上學、非洲宗教哲學和非洲意義概念的研究中處於前沿。他的其他興趣包括倫理學以及社會和政治哲學。

**Samuel T. Segun**

Samuel T. Segun 的研究包括人工智慧的倫理，專注於計算倫理、非洲智識發展以及心靈哲學，特別是神經哲學和意識。Samuel 的博士研究專注於為自主智能系統發展一個穩健的倫理理論，該理論受到非洲價值觀的啟發，並與西方方法相抗衡。他是對話哲學學派（CSP）的成員和研究員，並且是比勒陀利亞大學人工智慧研究中心（CAIR）社會公益工作組的研究助理。

在 ST Segun 的出版物中，包括《從機器倫理到計算倫理》發表於《AI & Society》；《為全球受眾批判性地參與人工智慧倫理》發表於《倫理與信息技術》，他在該特刊中擔任人工智慧倫理的首席客座編輯。他也是書籍《身份、意識與心靈問題的新對話》（Springer, 2019）的共同作者。

**Victor Nweke**

Victor Nweke 目前是德國科布倫茨-蘭道大學文化研究所的研究員/博士候選人。他的主要研究興趣包括非洲哲學、全球規範理論、跨文化哲學和邏輯哲學。他作為一個多學科規範項目「多樣性、權力與正義：跨文化視角」的成員，正在進行博士研究，該項目由德國研究基金會（DFG）資助。他的同行評審出版物（學術期刊和編輯書籍中的文章和章節）試圖質疑並（重新）概念化對正確行為和最佳人類繁榮的明確觀點，並以非洲哲學中的重要思想作為關鍵出發點。Victor 也是尼日利亞卡拉巴爾大學對話哲學學派（CSP）的附屬研究員，以及 HASTAC 學者計劃（2016-2018 年班）的校友。

**Umezurike J. Ezugwu**

Umezurike J. Ezugwu 是對話哲學社會的研究員。他在尼日利亞安南布拉州的南姆迪·阿齊基維大學哲學系獲得學士學位，並在卡拉巴爾大學哲學系獲得碩士和博士學位。在此期間，他作為兼職講師教授兩門通識課程：哲學與邏輯，以及科學的歷史與哲學。目前，他是尼日利亞海事大學的講師，教授哲學與邏輯、科學的歷史與哲學以及尼日利亞人民與文化。他被任命為研究與發展委員會成員，並擔任《國際海事與跨學科期刊》的共同編輯。