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23What Is the Essence of an Essence? Comparing Afro-Relational and Western-Individualist Ontologies (repr.)In Jonathan O. Chimakonam & Monique Whitaker (eds.), Contemporary Language, Logic, and Metaphysics: African and Western Approaches (tentative title), . 2024.Reprint of an article that first appeared in Synthesis Philosophica (2018).
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22A Theory of National Reconciliation: Some Insights from Africa (repr.)In Aleksandar Fatic, Klaus Bachmann & Igor Lyubashenko (eds.), Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies, Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 213-235. 2018.Reprint of mildly revised version of a chapter that initially appeared in _Theorizing Transitional Justice_ (2015).
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22Values in China as Compared to Africa: Two Conceptions of Harmony (Repr.)In The Collected Works at the Symposium on Chinese Studies 2017, China Social Sciences Press. pp. 620-631. 2018.English reprint of part of an article first appearing in Philosophy East and West (2017).
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21Replacing Development (repr.)In Benedict Okeja (ed.), African Philosophy and Global Justice, Routledge. pp. 109-135. 2019.Reprint of an article initially appearing in Philosophical Papers (2017).
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21Ce que l’Afrique peut apporter au mondeIn Tayeb Chenntouf (ed.), Histoire générale de l’Afrique, Volume 9 : l’Afrique Globale, Unesco. forthcoming.French translation of 'What Africa Can Contribute to the World', a commissioned chapter for UNESCO'S General History of Africa project.
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21Climate Change in Africa and the Middle East in Light of Health and Salient Regional ValuesIn Cheryl Macpherson (ed.), Climate Change and Health: Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy, Springer. pp. 115-125. 2016.A discussion of respects in which climate change is likely to affect health in Africa and the Middle East with some reference to moral values, such as ubuntu and Islam, salient in the respective regions.
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21Duties towards Animals versus Rights to Culture: An African Approach to the Conflict in Terms of CommunionIn Luis Rodrigues & Les Mitchell (eds.), Multiculturalism, Race and Animals – Contemporary Moral and Political Debates, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 269-294. 2017.Influential moral theories in the contemporary West face problems making sense of the conflict between the interests of animals and people’s interests in culture. They have trouble explaining either the existence of strong direct duties to animals or the importance of people’s right to culture (and frequently both). In this chapter I aim to advance a relational ethic, grounded on the African philosophical tradition, that offers a promising alternative. I contend that duties toward animals and ri…Read more
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21Could God's Purpose Be the Source of Life's Meaning? (repr.)In Joshua Seachris (ed.), Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide, Wiley. pp. 200-218. 2012.Reprint of an article that initially appeared in Religious Studies (2000).
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21How to Ground Animal Rights on African Values: A Constructive Approach (repr.)In Jonathan O. Chimakonam (ed.), African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation, Routledge. pp. 30-41. 2017.Reprint of a 2017 article from the Journal of Animal Ethics.
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20Confucianism and Ubuntu: Reflections on a Dialogue between Chinese and African Traditions (repr.)In Chung-Ying Cheng (ed.), Confucian Philosophy: Innovations and Transformations, Wiley. 2012.Reprint of an article appearing in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2011).
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20Much more than just an anthology, this survey of humanity's search for the meaning of life includes the latest contributions to the debate, a judicious selection of key canonical essays, and insightful commentary by internationally respected philosophers.
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18Jus Interruptus Bellum: The Ethics of Truce-MakingJournal of Global Ethics 13 (1): 6-13. 2017.With his new book, A Theory of Truces, Nir Eisikovits has succeed in producing the most comprehensive and insightful book to exist on the nature and morality of truces during international military conflict. In it he plausibly argues that thought about such conflict should avoid binary terms such as long-lasting peace and all-out war, and instead must readily acknowledge conditions “in between” them, such as cease-fires and agreements to limit belligerence to certain times. In this critical noti…Read more
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18Relational African Values between NationsIn Onditi Francis & Ben-Nun Gilad (eds.), Contemporary Africa in the New World Order, Indiana University Press. pp. 133-150. 2019.This chapter considers how some international ethical matters might be approached differently in the English-speaking literature if values salient in sub-Saharan Africa were taken seriously. Specifically, after pointing out how indigenous values in this part of the world tend to prescribe relating communally, this chapter articulates a moral-philosophical interpretation of communal relationship and brings out what such an ethic entails for certain aspects of globalization, political power, forei…Read more
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18The Politics of Doing Philosophy in Africa: A Conversation (repr.)In Mogobe B. Ramose (ed.), Contrasts and Contests About Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 148-160. 2016.Reprint of an article first appearing in the South African Journal of Philosophy (2015).
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17Précis of Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study (repr.)European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (2): 1--4. 2016.A brief summary of the main claims advanced in Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study, largely cribbed from the Journal of Philosophy of Life (2015).
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17Ends and Means of Transitional Justice (Repr.)In Eric Palmer & Krushil Watene (eds.), Reconciliation, Transitional and Indigenous Justice, Routledge. pp. 27-36. 2020.Reprint of an article first appearing in the Journal of Global Ethics (2018).
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17Communication Strategies in the Context of Indigenous African and Chinese Values: How to Harmonize (Repr.)In Paul Tembe & Vusi Gumede (eds.), Africa-China Cross-cultural Communication, Africa World Press. pp. 35-53. 2020.Reprint of an article first appearing in Philosophia Africana (2020).
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17African Ethics, Revised EditionIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.An updated version of this 4000 word overview of the meta-, normative and applied ethical dimensions of contemporary sub-Saharan moral philosophy.
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16An African Theory of the Point of Higher Education: Communion as an Alternative to Autonomy, Truth, and Citizenship (repr.)In Amasa Ndofirepi & Ephraim Gwaravanda (eds.), African Higher Education in the 21st Century: Some Philosophical Dimensions, Sense Publishers. pp. 122-145. 2020.Reprint of a chapter that first appeared in Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education (Palgrave 2018).
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15An African Theory of Good Leadership (repr.)In Josef Wieland & Julika Baumann Montecinos (eds.), Transcultural Leadership: Learning about Sub-Saharan Africa, Metropolis. pp. 41-63. 2018.Reprint of an article from the African Journal of Business Ethics (2018).
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14Popper’s Politics in the Light of African Values (Repr.)In Oseni Taiwo Afisi (ed.), Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development, Springer. pp. 9-29. 2021.Karl Popper is famous for favoring an open society, one in which the individual is treated as an end in himself and social arrangements are subjected to critical evaluation, which he defends largely by appeal to a Kantian ethic of respecting the dignity of rational beings. In this essay, I consider for the first time what the implications of a characteristically African ethic, instead prescribing respect for our capacity to relate communally, are for how the state should operate in an open socie…Read more
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14African Reasons Why Artificial Intelligence Should Not Maximize Utility (Repr.)In Aribiah Attoe, Samuel Segun, Victor Nweke & John-Bosco Umezurike (eds.), Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI, Springer. pp. 139-152. 2023.Reprint of a chapter first appearing in African Values, Ethics, and Technology: Questions, Issues, and Approaches (2021).
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13Human Dignity, Capital Punishment, and an African Moral Theory (repr.)In Luis Arroyo, Paloma Biglino & William Schabas (eds.), Towards Universal Abolition of the Death Penalty, Tirant Lo Blanch. pp. 337-366. 2010.In this chapter, a reprint of an article initially appearing in the Journal of Human Rights (2010), I spell out a conception of dignity grounded on African moral thinking that provides a plausible philosophical foundation for human rights, focusing on the particular human right not to be executed by the state. I first demonstrate that the South African Constitutional Court’s sub-Saharan explanations of why the death penalty is degrading all counterintuitively entail that using deadly force again…Read more
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12The Concept of a Meaningful Life (repr.)In Joshua Seachris (ed.), Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide, Wiley. pp. 79-94. 2012.Reprint of an article that initially appeared in the American Philosophical Quarterly (2001).
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12Kant's Contractualism and Enlightenment PoliticsIn Volker Gerhardt (ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Kant Congress, Volume 4, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 204-11. 2001.
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11Contributions Toward a Naturalist Theory of Life's MeaningDialogue and Universalism 8 (11): 25-32. 1998.A brief attempt to sketch an account of what constitutes meaning in life that does not rely on God or a soul. The account focuses on connecting with final value, but posits counterexamples pertaining to certain states of awareness.
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11What Science Means for Postmodernist Epistemology and the Philosophy of Education (Repr.)In Michael Peters, Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson & Tina Besley (eds.), What Comes after Postmodernism in Educational Theory?, Routledge. pp. 1398-1399. 2020.Reprint of an article first appearing in Educational Philosophy and Theory (2018).
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11Ubuntu as a Moral Theory and Human Rights in South Africa (Repr.)Revista Culturas Jurídicas (Legal Cultures Journal) 3 (5): 24-53. 2016.Reprint of an article first published in the _African Human Rights Law Journal_ (2011).
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11African Theories of Meaning in Life: A Critical Assessment (Repr.)In Aribiah Attoe (ed.), African Perspectives on the Question of Life’s Meaning, Routledge. pp. 21-34. 2023.Reprint of an article that first appeared in a special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy devoted to life's meaning in the African tradition.
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10Christopher W. Morris, An Essay on the Modern State (review)Philosophy in Review 19 (2): 132-134. 1999.
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