14 Facts About Kwasi Wiredu

Kwasi Wiredu gained a place at the University of Ghana, Legon.

At Oxford University, Kwasi Wiredu was taught by Gilbert Ryle, Peter Strawson, and Stuart Hampshire, and wrote a thesis on "Knowledge, Truth, and Reason".

Kwasi Wiredu returned to Ghana, where he accepted a post teaching philosophy for his old university.

Kwasi Wiredu remained at the University of Ghana for twenty-three years, during which time he became first Head of Department and then Professor.

Kwasi Wiredu was a member of the Committee of Directors of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies from 1983 to 1998.

Kwasi Wiredu was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Humanities Center, North Carolina.

Kwasi Wiredu was Vice-President of the Inter-African Council for Philosophy.

Kwasi Wiredu died on 6 January 2022 in the United States, at the age of 90.

Kwasi Wiredu proposes that the African philosopher has a unique opportunity to re-examine many of the assumptions of Western philosophers by subjecting them to an interrogation based on African languages.

Kwasi Wiredu opposed the "ethnophilosophical" and "philosophical sagacity" approaches to African philosophy, arguing that all cultures have their distinctive folk-beliefs and world-views, but that these must be distinguished from the practice of philosophising.

Kwasi Wiredu believes this traditional framework hosts a two part conception of a person.

Kwasi Wiredu's influences include, apart from his tutors at Oxford, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, the pragmatist John Dewey, and the epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical resources of the Akan culture.

Kwasi Wiredu wished to shed light and understanding to their belief systems and what they believe to be true and physical.

Kwasi Wiredu expressed his thoughts and ideas in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion on African Religions.