• Technology and the situationist challenge to virtue ethics 

  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, ...
• A relational theory of dignity and human rights : an alternative to autonomy 

  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, ...
• Can conversational thinking serve as a suitable pedagogical approach for philosophy education in African schools? 

  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 ...
• Is ‘Africa’ a racial slur and should the continent be renamed? 

  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 ...
• Ethics in electoral democracies : a critical reflection on Lesotho’s 2022 elections 

  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 ...
• Is there any evidence for hell in the Ifá Iiterary corpus? 

  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 ...
• A social constructivist understanding of culture for environmental justice and policy 

  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 ...
• Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective 

  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 ...
• How African conceptions of God bear on life’s meaning 

  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 ...
• Nie die einde van die wêreld nie : eskatologie en tyd in Levinas 

  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 ...
• Is Ifá divination girded by logic? A case for Ezumezu logic 

  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: ...
• Completing the complete understanding argument: a rejoinder to Roberto Di Ceglie 

  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 ...
• Gender relations and social justice in Africa : toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence 

  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 ...
• Knowledge work compulsion : the neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society 

  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 ...
• Predeterminism as a category error : why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong 

  Ben, Patrick Effiong (Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group) and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2023-10)

  I aim to establish in this article why Aribiah Attoe, like other determinists before him, got it wrong in arguing for the possibility of predeterminism in a materially evolving universe. I will do this by proving two things: ...
• Doing literature now 

  Nethersole, Reingard (Unisa Press, 2022-04)

  For over 35 years SAVAL-LASA's Journal of Literary Studies, ably assisted and directed by Andries Oliphant, devoted itself to examining literary texts. In the waxing and waning of theories it did a remarkable job reading ...
• Can Afro-communitarianism be useful in combating the challenge of human interaction posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? 

  Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna (MDPI, 2022-10-31)

  Can Afro-communitarianism serve as a viable ideology for addressing the human interaction challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to the normal functioning of societies around ...
• The paradox of ambivalent human interest in innocent Asouzu’s complementary ethics 

  Ben, Patrick Effiong (Calabar School of Philosophy, 2022)

  In this paper, I argue that the cause of morally self-defeating acts at the collective level is greed and, at the individual level, an unrestrained impulse for pleasure beyond Innocent Asouzu’s primordial instinct for ...
• Epistemic paternalism, averroes, and religious knowledge 

  Lougheed, Kirk; Harris, Joshua Lee (University of Hawaii Press, 2022-10)

  Epistemic paternalism occurs when evidence is withheld or shaped in particular ways in order to help an agent arrive at the truth, but this is done without their consent (and sometimes without their knowledge). While general ...
• Rethinking God’s omnibenevolence and omnipotence in light of the COVID-19 pandemic : an African perspective 

  Gwara, Joyline; Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna (Calabar School of Philosophy, 2022-12)

  The reality and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic question God’s omnibenevolence and omnipotence. Two questions that stare us in the face are a) is God omnibenevolent given the current reality? b) is God omnipotent? This ...

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