• 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: ...
• 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 ...
• The moral implications of Odera Oruka’s ‘human minimum’ for Africa’s fight against extreme poverty 

  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 ...
• Mobile terms in the conceptual architecture of Michel Foucault's 'Productive Power' 

  Marais, Sarel (University of Pretoria, 2023-05)

  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 ...
• The complementary relation between the right and the good in justice as fairness : implications for liberal democracies 

  Benton, Paige (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  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 ...
• Managing AI ethics tensions : a case study at Multichoice 

  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 ...
• 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 ...
• An evaluation of biotechnological enhancement in the light of an African perspective of personhood : the metaphysical aspects of botho and human nature 

  Sesiro, Doreen (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  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 ...
• Rethinking constructions of difference : lessons from Lesotho’s chief Mohlomi’s activism against the gendering of witchcraft 

  Mofuoa, Khali; Khau, Mathabo (Nelson Mandela University, 2022-04)

  Discrimination according to gender has been in practice in communities globally since time immemorial. This discrimination has infiltrated all spheres of life including the naming, shaming, blaming, and persecution of ...
• 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 ...
• Ainigma : Plato’s esotericism in context 

  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 ...
• Attachment and its relevance to the ANC's attainment of hegemony by 1999 

  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 ...
• Teaching & learning guide for : the axiology of theism : problems and prospects 

  Lougheed, Kirk (Wiley, 2022-09)

  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 ...
• Utilitarian and retributive arguments for the death penalty under the Nigerian criminal justice system : towards the justification and desirability of the death penalty in a relational society 

  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 ...
• Knowledge work in the age of control : capitalising on human capital 

  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 ...
• No-fault unbelief defended : a reply to Roberto Di Ceglie 

  Lougheed, Kirk (Springer, 2021)

  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 ...
• The relation between work and thumos : a critical interrogation of the motivation behind knowledge work compulsion 

  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 ...

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