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Theistic panpsychic
naturalized epistemology: The scientific philosophy of Africanity and einsteinism
Maduabuchi Dukor
Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi
Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. E-mail:
essencelibrary@hotmail.com.
Accepted
14, July, 2009 |
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The
objective of this those is to postulate Theistic panpsychism
as a version of naturalized epistemology it is a cognitive
science of essences, substances and modes of physical world
(phenomenon) and the a priori world (nuomena). The
traditional epistemology is that with experiences in the
form of impressions or sense data, we justify our claims to
know objects such tables, or molecules etc. Theistic
Panpsychic naturalized epistemology is concerned with
external physical and metaphysical worlds of objective and
subjective realities. Consistent with modernity and
post-modernity, it is neither against the canon of reason
nor intuition, nor experience but asserts that there are
truths of non-empirical modalities. As an objective
idealist, realist and panpsychist, the African Bantu sees
God in every being and object manifesting as gods, spirits
and forces. These forces, he understands and grapples with
designators and predicates in explaining nature and medical
and scientific puzzles. Similarly, considering the
theory of relativity from epistemological standpoint, this
paper establishes that Albert Einstein grappled with
theistic panpsychism, and then to special theory of
relativity and finally general theory of relativity.
He explained the randomness and uncertainty of nature with
notion of God and forces thereby confirming his theistic
panpsychic disposition before his great scientific
discovery’s namely E= mc2. The realm of theistic
panpsychic naturalized epistemology is nature, absolutes,
thinking, cognition and deductive reasoning. It is a
transcending totality encompassing the a priori and
a posteriori and provides answers to moral,
epistemological and metaphysical questions. It is the
epistemologist of Africanity (African or Bantu cognitive
world view) and Einsteinism (Ensteins world view that
influenced his theory of relativity).
Key
words:
Epistemology, immanentism, panpsychic, Descartes. |
