• 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 ...
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Neoliberal governmentality, knowledge work, and thumos 

  Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Editura ASE, 2021-11-20)

  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 ...
• The feasibility of resistance in the workplace : a critical investigation 

  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. ...
• Abhored but necessary : a relational interrogation of Zaman Lafia (peaceful living) and the evil of the death penalty in the traditional Hausa belief system 

  Bambale, Zubairu Lawal (Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP), 2022-03)

  In Hausa worldview, Peaceful living (Zaman Lafiya) is conceived as the chief goal of life. Zaman Lafiya is that which determines goodness or badness of actions and practices. Everything, including morality, life, death ...
• Traditional African religion as a neglected form of monotheism 

  Metz, Thaddeus; Molefe, Motsamai (Oxford University Press, 2021-07)

  Our aims are to articulate some core philosophical positions characteristic of Traditional African Religion and to argue that they merit consideration as monotheist rivals to standard interpretations of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic ...
• Foucault's analyses of neoliberal governmentality. Past investigations and present applications 

  Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda) (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2021)

  Please read abstract in article.
• Religious disagreement, mystical experience, and doxastic minimalism : critical notice of john pittard’s disagreement, deference, and religious commitment 

  Lougheed, Kirk (MDPI, 2021-08)

  In his recent book, Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment, John Pittard challenges J.L. Schellenberg’s rejection of mystical experience as worthy of enjoying presumptive doxastic trust for two main reasons. ...
• 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 ...

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