• Religion as ‘universal obsessional neurosis of humanity’? Re-reading Freud on religion 

  Kistner, Ulrike (AOSIS, 2021-08-05)

  In his writings on culture, Freud stipulates a close relation between religion and psychopathology, and obsessional neurosis in particular. In this article, I would like to explore the nature of that relation. How is it ...
• Supernaturalist analytic existentialism : critical notice of Clifford Williams’ Religion and the meaning of life 

  Metz, Thaddeus (Springer, 2021-04)

  In this critical notice of Clifford Williams’ Religion and the meaning of life, I focus on his argumentation in favour of the moderate supernaturalist position that, while a meaningful life would be possible in a purely ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• The sexual orientation question in Nigeria : cultural relativism versus universal human rights concerns 

  Chimakonam, Jonathan O.; Agada, Ada (Springer, 2020-12)

  We note that a political consensus on LGBT rights equating human rights is nowhere in sight in contemporary Nigeria. We rekindle the debate between universalism, as represented by the claim that human rights are the same ...
• Bodies, theology and Dante’s divine comedy : engaging Dante and Aïda Muluneh 

  Bosch, Rozelle Robson (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)

  Placing the words Comedy and Africa in the same sentence, is like laying claim to two expansive and complex entities which do not immediately bear relation to another and yet, there is ample opportunity for engagement. ...
• Experiencing the Covid-19 outbreak socially : on some recent philosophical contributions 

  Alloggio, Sergio (Unisa Press, 2020-01)

  The coronavirus outbreak is currently scrutinised by professional philosophers from different traditions and geographical areas. By focusing on several contributions from European academic philosophers, this article ...
• The Covid-19 pandemic and meaning in life 

  Attoe, Aribiah David; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke (Unisa Press, 2020)

  In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, where death, sickness and suffering persist, there is some hint that there is nothing so special about the human race that particularly makes it immune to decimation. This is at odds ...
• 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 ...
• Forgetting responsibility : Hannah Arendt and the work of (undoing) psychic resistance post-apartheid 

  Alloggio, Sergio; Thomas, Kylie (AfricaRhetoric Publishing, 2020)

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• Relational normative economics : an African approach to justice 

  Metz, Thaddeus (Peeters Publishers, 2020)

  Recent work by comparative philosophers, global ethicists, and cross-cultural value theorists indicates that, unlike most Western thinkers, those in many other parts of the globe, such as indigenous Africa, East Asia, and ...
• An ontic–ontological theory for ethics of designing social robots : a case of Black African women and humanoids 

  Lamola, M.J. (John) (Springer, 2021-06)

  Given the affective psychological and cognitive dynamics prevalent during human–robot-interlocution, the vulnerability to cultural-political influences of the design aesthetics of a social humanoid robot has far-reaching ...
• The quest for actionable AI ethics 

  Ruttkamp-Bloem, Emma (Springer, 2020-12)

  In the face of the fact that AI ethics guidelines currently, on the whole, seem to have no significant impact on AI practices, the quest of AI ethics to ensure trustworthy AI is in danger of becoming nothing more than a ...
• A Critical Enquiry into the Metaphysics for Mind Uploading 

  Warby, Paul (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Mind uploading is a fascinating possibility that asks us to imagine a person being instantiated in a substrate other than their biological body, such as a person continuing in a robot/computer. The current thesis takes a ...
• A perspective on ethical agency in complex adaptive systems : providing a philosophical description and analysis of the Cynefin Framework and Sensemaker Suite™ 

  Williams, Sara Susanna (University of Pretoria, 2014)

  This study explores the implication of complexity theory on our understanding of knowledge before proposing a cognitive shift, to move from a rule-directed business ethics to a more responsive and relational approach to ...
• A critical reflection on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education 

  Sewchurran, Anusharani; Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (University of Free State, 2020)

  In this essay, we critically reflect on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education with specific focus on the South African context. After contextualising the problematics in terms of what Castells terms ...
• The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Sexbots : A Philosophical Investigation into the Ethical Conditions for Human-Sexbot Interaction 

  Friedman, Cindy (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  Discussion surrounding the development of artificial intelligence (AI), and its moral and social impacts, is one of the most important conversations of our time. Research within the ethics of AI is vital in ensuring that ...
• The South African land question in light of Nelson Mandela’s political thought 

  Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis; Chimakonam, Jonathan O. (Routledge, 2020)

  Land redistribution in post-apartheid South Africa is a problem that has caused division and violence in the country. Particularly, the dispossession of land suffered by many Africans in South Africa and the failure of ...
• Robots are not ethical like people : an exemplarist framework for functional ethics in everyday robots in ordinary contexts 

  Mabaso, Bongani Andy (University of Pretoria, 2020-08)

  As increasingly intelligent and autonomous robots continue to proliferate into every area of modern life, there is no doubt that society has to think deeply about the potential impact, whether negative or positive, that ...
• 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 ...

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