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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
Ben, Patrick Effiong(University of Pretoria, 2023)
In this dissertation, I consider a hitherto underexplored concept of ‘human minimum’ as proposed by H. Odera Oruka to obligate responsibility as an approach to tackling extreme poverty in Africa and beyond. I aim to ...
This thesis analyses the conceptual architecture in Michel Foucault’s work on Productive Power. I identify five mobile terms in Foucault’s work, which move between different power-knowledge configurations. The chosen mobile ...
I claim that the revisions John Rawls made to his theory of justice—as seen in his political conception of justice as fairness in the revised edition of Political Liberalism and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement—result ...
Velayudan, Mergandran(University of Pretoria, 2023-03-30)
Interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has never been greater – while we’re at a
likely tipping point in the adoption of AI into mainstream industry, we’re still
grappling with effective ways to manage the ethical ...
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 ...
Transhumanism is the view that human evolution should be actively enhanced by the human race through science and technology. Bio-technological enhancements are interventions designed to transform individual human capabilities ...
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 ...
Coombs, Wehan Murray(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Based primarily on Aristotle’s testimony of the existence of ‘unwritten doctrines’ of Plato, alongside Plato’s comments on the issue in the Seventh Epistle and the critique of writing in the Phaedrus, the question of Plato’s ...
Stewart, Dylan Steven Risi(University of Pretoria, 2022)
The period of 1990 - 1999 saw a major turn in the fortune of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa. While the seeds for the ANC’s political ascent to the seat of government were sown during the 1980s, it was ...
Does God exist? This is a question that philosophers have sought to answer for centuries. But consider the following: What is the value impact of God's existence? Would God's existence be good or bad? Should we want God ...
Bambale, Zubairu Lawal(University of Pretoria, 2022)
While so much has been said about the moral justification of the death penalty in Western literature, the African perspectives in that regard are still emerging. As a practical endeavor, the death penalty is necessarily ...
Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda(University of the Free State, 2022-07-31)
The main claim that I aim to substantiate in this
article is that power in the form of control is exerted
in a more insidious manner now that knowledge
work has become ‘networked’. To this end, I first
describe societal ...
In the philosophy of religion, ‘no-fault unbelief’ represents the view that a person can fail to believe that God exists through no fault of their own. On the other hand, ‘flawed unbelief’ says a person is always culpable ...
Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda(Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 2021)
In this paper I attempt to come to a critical understanding of an intriguing phenomenon
at the heart of a broader question, i.e. what are we today – as knowledge
workers – in relation to our present understood as the ...
Research has shown that the knowledge worker, the decisive driver of the knowledge economy, works increasingly longer hours. In fact, it would appear that instead of working to live, they live to work. There appears to be ...
Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda(Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 2021)
In this article, I undertake a critical interrogation of the complex relations of control operating in the
contemporary workplace of the knowledge worker by drawing on Foucault’s theorisation of power and resistance. ...