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Research Articles (Philosophy)
Recent Submissions
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda
(Philippine National Philosophical Research Society, 2024-01)
War is a " state of exception" that not only left an indelible mark on Levinas's life but confronts Levinas with a series of "hard questions" that pose a fundamental challenge to some of the most foundational tenets of his ...
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Oimann, Ann-Katrien; Tollon, Fabio
(Wiley, 2025-02)
Recent work in philosophy of technology has come to bear on the question of responsibility gaps. Some authors argue that the increase in the autonomous capabilities of decision-making systems makes it impossible to properly ...
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Metz, Thaddeus
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2025-04)
No abstract available.
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Lougheed, Kirk
(Springer, 2024-04-19)
David Benatar argues that one important consideration in favour of anti-natalism
is based on the fact that all humans lack cosmic meaning; we will never transcend
space and time such that we will have an impact on the ...
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Ofuasia, Emmanuel
(Taylor and Francis, 2025)
Hitherto, the African intellect had been decimated by notable European scholars such as David Hume, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Hegel, Lucien Levy-Bruhl to name a few. The common denominator among these male scholars is that ...
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Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda)
(AOSIS, 2024-01-22)
The background of this research is the status and significance of an ethics of care of the self
in the history of morality. I followed the following methodology: I attempted to come to
nuanced, critical understanding of ...
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Tollon, Fabio
(Springer, 2024-03)
In this paper, I introduce a “promises and perils” framework for understanding the “soft” impacts of emerging technology, and argue for a eudaimonic conception of well-being. This eudaimonic conception of well-being, ...
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Metz, Thaddeus
(Oxford University Press, 2024-07)
In this article I draw on resources from the Global South, and particularly the African philosophical tradition, to construct a theory of human rights grounded on dignity that presents a challenge to globally dominant, ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna
(Oxford University Press, 2024-04)
This article investigates whether Conversational Thinking can suitably serve as a pedagogical approach for philosophy education in African schools (primary and secondary levels). We argue that there is a need to introduce ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Egbai, Uti O.
(Routledge, 2024)
In this paper, we will investigate whether or not the name ‘Africa’ can be seen as a slur. Since the name was given by European exploiters, slavers and colonists, it raises the question of whether such a name should continue ...
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Mofuoa, Khali
(Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, 2023-06)
This study is a critical reflection on how the positive impact of ethics in
Lesotho’s political elections and democracy could be amplified for lasting
peace and political stability. It is based on secondary data from ...
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Ofuasia, Emmanuel
(MDPI, 2023-11)
Recent scholarship on Yorùbá theology that has tried to model it after the Abrahamic monotheisms as the distinction between Ọ̀run rere (Heaven) and Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) is now replete but has not, before now, commanded ...
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Afolabi, Abiodun Paul
(SUNMeDIA, 2023-12-06)
In addressing the environmental threats to cultural resources, some environmental ethicists have taken for granted the idea that culture has an essential character of change that is to be welcomed. In this article, I show ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Chimakonam, Amara Esther
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-06)
We argue that the problem of evil, logically, stems from the unequal binary that characterizes the
bivalent structure of Western discourses in the philosophy of religion. This structure pits God
against the devil, but ...
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Metz, Thaddeus
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-06)
Up to now, a very large majority of work in the religious philosophy of life’s meaning has presumed
a conception of God that is Abrahamic. In contrast, in this article I critically discuss some of the
desirable and ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2024-06)
Levinas mainly deals with the notion of eschatology in the preface of Totalité et infini (1961).
There it appears in the context of his agreement with an entire tradition of philosophers
claiming that the very nature of ...
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Dasaolu, Babajide Olugbenga; Ofuasia, Emmanuel; Oladipupo, Sunday Layi
(Routledge, 2023)
Several criteria for what constitutes African philosophy have been offered by different African and non-African scholars. For Jonathan Chimakonam (Ezumezu: A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies. Cham: ...
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Lougheed, Kirk
(Springer, 2023-04)
In The Axiological Status of Theism and Other Worldviews (2020), I defend the Complete Understanding Argument for anti-theism, which says that God’s existence makes the world worse with respect to our ability to understand ...
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Afolabi, Abiodun Paul; Etieyibo, Edwin
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
A large and important part of social relations is gender relations between men and women. Over time, the manifestation of such relations has often been one of violence, particularly violence against women. Different ...
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Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda)
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
This contribution seeks to understand the pervasive phenomenon of work compulsion among knowledge workers in our present network society. Knowledge workers not only have to work all the time from anywhere, but they also ...
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