Contents

Jerome Ikechukwu Okonkwo - “IHE”: The Nexus Between Phenomena and Phenomenology in Igbo Philosophy

Ludger Jansen - The Fullness of Being: Why Property Nominalism and Physicalism are falling short of the Demands of Philosophy and Religion

Wence C. Madu - Contemporary Efforts on the Yam and Sweet Potato improvement Programs: A Review

Israel C. Ndukwe - Researching into the Cooling Substance in Raffia Palm for a Natural Air Conditioner: An Urgent Technological Need for Africa

Richard Sherlock - The Human Person and the Language of Value

Johnsmart Ezenwankwor - The Evil of Profound Offense: A Re-Reading of Feinberg’s Moral Limits to Criminal Law

Cletus Onyema Obasi A Holistic Approach towards Trans-forming Structures of Violence in Nigeria

Chrysanthus N. Ogbozo Husserl’s Project of a Presuppositionless Scientific Philosophy

Anthony Ik. Kanu African Traditional Democracy with Particular Reference to the Yoruba and Igbo Political Systems

DISCUSSION

Chielozona Eze and C. Ogbozo give two different, but complementary responses to Prof. Okoknwo’s article: ‘Ihe Phenomenology’ in Igbo Philosophy and Science

Contributors

Jerome Ikechukwu Okonkwo is a Professor of linguistic philosophy and phenomenology at the Department of Philosophy, Imo State University, Owerri. He is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration at the same University.

Jansen Ludger is a Professor of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Rostock, Germany.

Wence C. Madu, a seasoned researcher in Biotechnology within and outside Nigeria, holds a Ph. D from the faculty of Biological sciences in Abia State University, Uturu. Presently, he is the Rector of Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, Owerri.

Chielozona E. Eze, is an associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA.

Israel C. Ndukwe is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Imo State- Nigeria. He is currently the admission officer and member of the University’s Governing Council.

Richard Sherlock, Ph.D is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Logan Utah University, USA.

John Ezenwankwo, Ph.D is a lecturer in Philosophy and Logic and at the Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo-Owerri.

Cletus Onyema Obasi, Ph.D lectures on Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.

Chrysanthus Nnaemeka Ogbozo, Ph.D is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Anthony Ik. Kanu, Ph.D is currently a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Veritas University, Abuja – Nigeria