Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Type "Postprint Article"

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  • Aristotle’s harmony with Plato on separable and immortal soul 
    Coombs, W.M. (Wehan Murray) (Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group) and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2017-11)
    The possibility of a harmony between the psychological doctrine of Aristotle and that of Plato marks a significant issue within the context of the debate surrounding Aristotle’s putative opposition to or harmony with Plato’s ...
  • 'Authentic” queer identities–Koos Prinsloo as a site of contestation 
    Kumalo, S.H. (Siseko) (Routledge, 2019)
    Koos Prinsloo’s short story, “Promise you’ll tell no-one”, highlights three aspects that continue to plague Afrikaner identity. The first of these are the phallus, understood here as the symbol of patriarchal power which ...
  • Axel Honneth, reification, and “Nature” 
    Angella, Marco (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2019)
    I begin by briefly reconstructing Honneth’s concept of reification. His paradigm gives the reification of the non-human environment a marginal position in comparison to the reification of human beings, thereby detracting ...
  • 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 ...
  • ‘Common purpose’: the crowd and the public 
    Kistner, Ulrike (Springer, 2015-02)
    The legal doctrine of ‘common purpose’ in South African criminal law considers all parties liable who have been in implicit or explicit agreement to commit an unlawful act, and associated with each other for that purpose, ...
  • 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 ...
  • A contemporary sense of existentialism 
    Wardle, Darryl (Taylor & Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2016-08)
    Philosophical existentialism has sought to understand the nature of human existence and the possible meaning(s) that might be made thereof. For the noteworthy existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, the meaning of life cannot ...
  • Does the lack of cosmic meaning make our lives bad? 
    Metz, Thaddeus (Springer, 2022-03)
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  • The epistemic benefits of diversifying the philosophy of religion 
    Lougheed, Kirk (Akademos Press, 2022-03)
    There have been recent calls to expand contemporary analytic philosophy of religion beyond the oft implicitly assumed Christian tradition. Instead of exploring moral reasons to expand the discipline, I argue that there are ...
  • Four questions on curriculum development in contemporary South Africa 
    Wolff, Ernst (Taylor & Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2016-11)
    This article explores current issues in South African philosophy curriculum design. Four questions are considered, each followed by a supplementary note. Firstly, the place of philosophy from other traditions, particularly ...
  • From phenomenology to critical theory : the genesis of Adorno's critical theory from his reading of Husserl 
    Wolff, Ernst (Sage, 2006-07)
    This article investigates the importance of the evolution of Adorno's interpretation of Husserl for the formation of his own philosophy. The weakness of Husserl's notion of immediate data is revealed within the light of ...
  • 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 ...
  • Human-robot moral relations: human interactants as moral patients of their own agential moral actions towards robots 
    Friedman, Cindy (Springer, 2020-12)
    This paper contributes to the debate in the ethics of social robots on how or whether to treat social robots morally by way of considering a novel perspective on the moral relations between human interactants and social ...
  • Introduction : themes and discourses in African philosophy 
    Sanni, John Sodiq; Carman, Mary; Etieyibo, Edwin (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2022)
    More recent discussions in African philosophy have focused on substantive issues than the largely meta-philosophical discussions that African philosophers engaged in between the 1960s and 1990s. This makes this special ...
  • 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: ...
  • 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 ...
  • Khawuleza-an instantiation of the Black Archive 
    Kumalo, S.H. (Siseko) (Unisa Press, 2020-08)
    South African history is such that Blackness/Indigeneity were excluded from institutions of knowledge production. Contemporarily, the traditional University is defined as an institution predicated on the abjection of ...
  • 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 ...
  • Levinas and the possibility of dialogue with "Strangers" 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Routledge, 2016-03)
    This programmatic essay explores some of the challenges that a seemingly quintessential European or Continental philosopher such as Levinas faces when his thought on alterity and on the responsibility we bear towards the ...
  • Meaning and medicine : an underexplored bioethical value 
    Metz, Thaddeus (Springer, 2021-12)
    DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM : Since the origin of bioethics as a discipline, the field has been dominated by consideration of two main values, well-being and morality. I cast doubt on whether those are sufficient to resolve ...