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120“Ethnophilosophy” Redefined?Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 2 (1): 73-86. 2010.The meaning of the term “ethnophilosophy” has evolved in both a significant and controversial variety of ways since it was first introduced by Paulin Hountondji in 1970. It was first challenged by the Kenyan philosopher, H. Odera Oruka, as based upon Hountondji’s unfair appreciation of Africa’s indigenous cultural heritage. Barry Hallen and J. Olubi Sodipo, using a form of analytic philosophy as foundational, thereafter argued that Yoruba ordinary language discourse also served to undermine Houn…Read more
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108Moral Epistemology: When Propositions Come Out of MouthsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 38 (2). 1998.
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173A Short History of African PhilosophyIndiana University Press. 2002.In this accessible book, Barry Hallen discusses the major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in African philosophy. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, Hallen focuses on the recent scholarship, current issues, and relevant debates that have made African philosophy an important key to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of Africa. Hallen builds upon Africa's connections with Western philosophical traditions and explores African contributi…Read more
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104Indeterminancy, Ethnophilosophy, Linguistic Philosophy, African PhilosophyPhilosophy 70 (273). 1995.Various obstacles to the expression of African philosophy, arising from indeterminacies of translation, can be resolved by having recourse to the ordinary language approach to academic philosophy.
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221The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse About Values in Yoruba CultureIndiana University Press. 2000.The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture Barry Hallen Reveals everyday language as the key to understanding morals and ethics in Yoruba culture. "This contrasts with any suggestion that in Yoruba or, more generally, African society, moral thinking manifests nothing much more than a supine acquiescence in long established communal values.... Hallen renders a great service to African philosophy." —Kwasi Wiredu In Yoruba culture, morality and moral values are in…Read more
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37“Ethnophilosophy” Redefined?Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 2 (1): 73-85. 2010.The meaning of the term “ethnophilosophy” has evolved in both a significant and controversial variety of ways since it was first introduced by Paulin Hountondji in 1970. It was first challenged by the Kenyan philosopher, H. Odera Oruka, as based upon Hountondji’s unfair appreciation of Africa’s indigenous cultural heritage. Barry Hallen and J. Olubi Sodipo, using a form of analytic philosophy as foundational, thereafter argued that Yoruba ordinary language discourse also served to undermine Houn…Read more
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7Book Reviews : African Philosophy: Myth or Reality?. BY L. APOSTEL and E. STORY. Ghent, Belgium: Scientia Publishers, 1981. Pp. 428. Belgian Francs 1,280 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (1): 109-111. 1985.
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35Personhood in a Communitarian ContextThought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 7 (2): 1-10. 2015.Theories regarding the nature and achievement of personhood in a communitarian context appear to differ in significant respects in the writings of several contemporary African philosophers. Ifeanyi Menkiti seems to regard ethnic differences as sufficient to warrant a national accommodation of multiculturalism with respect to moralities and attendant beliefs. Kwasi Wiredu argues that there is a substantive universal moral principle that undercuts such apparent and relatively superficial diversity…Read more
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1Boldness and Caution in the Methodology and Social Philosophy of Karl PopperDissertation, Boston University Graduate School. 1970.
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93Book Reviews : African Philosophy: Myth or Reality?. BY L. APOSTEL and E. STORY. Ghent, Belgium: Scientia Publishers, 1981. Pp. 428. Belgian Francs 1,280 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (1): 109-111. 1985.
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106Handsome Is as Handsome DoesThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 4 187-196. 1999.Today the study of African aesthetics constitutes one of the most exciting and dynamic subdisciplines in African and intercultural studies. Yet, because it is also a discipline in which African meanings must of necessity be translated into and expressed by one of the few ‘world’ languages (English, French), it is in the interests of all concerned—Africans and non-Africans—to work together to ensure that the highest possible professional standards are maintained. For it is intercultural dialogue …Read more
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21African Philosophy: The Analytic ApproachAfrica World Press. 2006.Critiques -- Methodology -- Moral epistemology -- Aesthetics.
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111Select Issues and Controversies in Contemporary African PhilosophyRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74 109-122. 2014.African philosophy today is a complicated and dynamic discipline. This presentation will concentrate on two topics that are currently of special interest. One concerns the meaning of the term when it is used to express a defining characteristic of Africa's cultures. The other concerns the reactions on the part of African philosophers and scholars to the movement that has come to be known in Western academia and culture as.
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Analytic Philosophy and Traditional Thought: a Critique of Robin HortonIn P. English & K. M. Kalumba (eds.), African Philosophy: A Classical Approach, Prentice-hall. pp. 216-228. 1996.
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29Knowledge, belief, and witchcraft: analytic experiments in African philosophyStanford University Press. 1986.First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of translation, the book investigates questions of Yoruba epistemology and of how knowledge is conceived in an oral culture
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120A Short History of African Philosophy, Second EditionIndiana University Press. 2009.A Short History of African Philosophy discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, Barry Hallen focuses on recent scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent. This revised edition expands the historical perspective, takes account of recent discoveries and new canonical fig…Read more
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