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22African Philosophy of Religion from a Global Perspective: Deities, Ancestors, Relationality and the Problem of EvilFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 11 (1): 1-8. 2022.In this essay, we explore what the African Philosophy of Religion would look like from both a mono-disciplinary and comparative perspectives. To do this, a few concepts such as Gods, ancestorhood, relationality, and the problem of evil that appear in the essays in this special issue will be highlighted. Our aim here is not to provide a lengthy and rigorous analysis of the field of African Philosophy of Religion or even some of its main concepts, but to offer a platform for continuing discussion …Read more
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25African perspectives on just warPhilosophy Compass 17 (3). 2021.Most Anglophone just war theory has been written from the point of view of Western philosophy. Nevertheless, other philosophical traditions outside the West have also produced sophisticated and innovative ideas about the morality of war, although they have been largely neglected. In this article, I overview for the first time the literature regarding jus ad bellum in contemporary African thought and contend that there are four kinds of arguments regarding the justification to initiate a war. Nam…Read more
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25Teaching and Learning Guide for: African perspectives on just warPhilosophy Compass 17 (3). 2021.Philosophy Compass, Volume 17, Issue 3, March 2022.
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15Pathways Towards a Global Philosophy of ReligionFilosofia Theoretica 11 (1): 197-206. 2022.In this article, we will make the case for an intercultural philosophy of religion with a special focus on interculturality between Chinese and African philosophies. We will provide an overview of the kind of intercultural philosophy that has already been undertaken between the East and the South and point out that a philosophy of religion has been left out. We will then make the case for a global philosophy of religion approach and why Chinese and African philosophies of religion should engage …Read more
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29African Philosophy of Religion from a Global PerspectiveFilosofia Theoretica 11 (1): 1-7. 2022.In this essay, we explore what the African Philosophy of Religion would look like from both a mono-disciplinary and comparative perspectives. To do this, a few concepts such as Gods, ancestorhood, relationality, and the problem of evil that appear in the essays in this special issue will be highlighted. Our aim here is not to provide a lengthy and rigorous analysis of the field of African Philosophy of Religion or even some of its main concepts, but to offer a platform for continuing discussion …Read more
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33Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triagingBioethics 36 (3): 243-251. 2022.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 243-251, March 2022.
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21Connecting racial and species justice: Towards an Afrocentric animal advocacyPhilosophy and Social Criticism (8): 1075-1098. 2022.Some philosophers and activists have been sceptical about the relevance of pursuing animal justice to progress racial justice. Routinely, these sceptics have argued that allying animal and racial j...
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1Multiculturalism, Race and Animals – Contemporary Moral and Political Debates (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2017.
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16An Afro-Communitarian Relational Approach to Brain Surrogates ResearchNeuroethics 14 (3): 561-574. 2021.Carrying out research on brains is important for medical advances in various diseases. However, such research ought not be carried out on human brains because the benefits do not outweigh the potential risks. A possible alternative is the use of brain surrogates. Nevertheless, some scholars who uphold a threshold account of moral status suggest the possibility that, with technological advances in the near future, more advanced brain surrogates will have very similar features to humans. This may …Read more
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23Afro-Communitarianism and the Duties of Animal Advocates within Racialized Societies: The Case of Racial Politics in South AfricaJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 18 (3): 511-523. 2021.Animal advocates world-wide have been accused of campaigns immured in racism. Some authors have argued that for animal advocates to avoid this accusation they should simultaneously engage with racial discrimination issues when advocating for animal welfare/rights. This prescription has been mostly explored in the context of the Global North and by looking at Western normative theory. In this article I address this issue but by looking at the context of South Africa and analysing the prescription…Read more
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26Connecting racial and species justice: Towards an Afrocentric animal advocacyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 48 (8): 1075-1098. 2022.Some philosophers and activists have been sceptical about the relevance of pursuing animal justice to progress racial justice. Routinely, these sceptics have argued that allying animal and racial justice struggles is politically unfeasible, counterproductive, distractive and disruptive for the achievement of racial justice. The conclusion of these sceptics is that animal justice is either a barrier or irrelevant to racial justice and, as such, activists should not ally both struggles. In this ar…Read more
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24Injustice for the sake of public health: Freeing prisoners in Portugal during the COVID‐19 pandemicBioethics 35 (4): 385-387. 2021.This case study analysis looks at Portuguese policy during the COVID‐19 pandemic whereby convicts were freed for the sake of public health. I defend this policy negatively by refuting the argument that suggested it involved various forms of injustice.
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647Afro-Communitarianism and the Role of Traditional African Healers in the COVID-19 PandemicPublic Health Ethics 14 (1): 59-71. 2021.The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant challenges to healthcare systems worldwide, and in Africa, given the lack of resources, they are likely to be even more acute. The usefulness of Traditional African Healers in helping to mitigate the effects of pandemic has been neglected. We argue from an ethical perspective that these healers can and should have an important role in informing and guiding local communities in Africa on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Particularly, we argue no…Read more
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26A Relational Approach to Rationing in a Time of PandemicJournal of Value Inquiry 56 (3): 409-429. 2022.
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17Social Justice for Public Health: The COVID-19 Response in PortugalJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 17 (4): 669-674. 2020.The COVID-19 pandemic requires emergency policies to be put in place in order to avoid a global health catastrophe. At the same time, there has been an increasing preoccupation that argues urgent policies for public health neglect social justice. By looking at Portugal’s successful confinement case during the early stages of the pandemic, I argue that ethically driven social justice policies are not just compatible but also an instrumentally important element in addressing this pandemic in an ef…Read more
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25Toward a decolonized healthcare ethics: Colonial legacies and the Siamese crocodileDeveloping World Bioethics 20 (3): 118-119. 2020.Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
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35South African Animal Legislation and Marxist Philosophy of LawCultura 16 (1): 23-38. 2019.Marxist Philosophy as an explanation of social reality has, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, been largely neglected. However, some philosophers have contended that it may still be relevant to explain today’s social reality. In this article, I wish to demonstrate precisely that Marxist philosophy can be relevant to understand social reality. To carry out this task, I show that Marxist philosophy of law can offer a sound explanation of Animal law in South Africa. My argument is that South Africa…Read more
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15Comparative Just War Theory: An Introduction to International Perspectives (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2019.This edited volume addresses the morality of war from a comparative perspective to develop a cross-cultural and cross-ideological quorum on when it is justifiable to initiate or enter into war and what methods of violence are acceptable once engaged in such a conflict.
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29African Views of Just War in Mandela and CabralJournal of Speculative Philosophy 32 (4): 657-673. 2018.ABSTRACT In this article, I will carry out an epistemic and interpretative project, drawing out the implications of African values for the morality of war. More precisely, I wish to interpret the African value system and tease out some conclusions as to what this value system entails in terms of the following: the morality of when to enter war, how to act in war, and what to do after war. I carry out this inquiry by articulating the African value of Ubuntu in light of the actions and speeches of…Read more
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31Understanding the Impact of the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act (AETA) on Animal AdvocacyEnvironmental Ethics 39 (4): 355-375. 2017.In many contemporary societies, there is an increasing number of animal welfare sympathizers and activists. In the United States, particularly, there are various individuals who have engaged in activist activities focused on animals. However, since 2006, and under the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act, some of these activities have been classified as terrorist crimes. Independent of whether such activities are morally justified or not, the AETA law exaggerates these activist actions and can take t…Read more
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43Animal Abolitionism Revisited: Neo-Colonialism and Morally Unjustified BurdensJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31 (4): 499-510. 2018.Bob Fischer has written a reply to my article ‘Animal Abolitionism and ‘Racism without Racists’’. In this article, Fischer contends that my arguments whereby animal abolitionism engages in acts of racism without racists are mistaken. I wish to reply to Fischer’s objections in this article, through four sets of contentions: Fischer’s arguments reveal some misunderstandings in terms of the concept of racism and, particularly, of ‘racism without racists’; his arguments also underestimate the burden…Read more
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9Criminal law, multicultural jurisdictions and cultural evidenceSouth African Journal of Philosophy 35 (2): 184-196. 2016.
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64Integrating African Philosophy into the Western Philosophy CurriculumTeaching Philosophy 41 (1): 21-43. 2018.In the last three years, there has been a worldwide increase in integrating African philosophy into the philosophy curricula. Nevertheless, given that African philosophy has been largely neglected by Western academia, many philosophers in the West who do wish to integrate it are unaware of how to do it. This article aims at addressing this issue by offering some recommendations on how to integrate African philosophy into the curricula. Particularly, it offers recommendations based on how the his…Read more
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75Animal Abolitionism and ‘Racism without Racists’Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 30 (6): 745-764. 2017.Abolitionism is an animal rights' philosophy and social movement which has recently begun to grow. It has been largely contested but the criticisms directed at it have usually been articulated outside academia. In this article, I wish to contend that one of the criticisms directed at abolitionism—that it contains racist implications—is correct. I do this by defending the idea that abolitionism engages in what Eduardo Bonilla-Silva classifies as ‘racism without racists’—an unintentional and subtl…Read more
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8Animals and African EthicsBetween the Species 20 (1). 2017.This article is a book review of the book Animals and African Ethics by Kai Horsthemke. I argue this is a brilliant book that gives a clear overview of how Africans see animals. However, I also contend that Horsthemke could have had a more charitable approach to African ideas and explore how an African theory of animal rights can be built upon this.
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21Hidden and Unintended Racism and Speciesism in the Portuguese Animal Rights Movement: The Case of BullfightingTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 62 (144): 1-18. 2015.The Portuguese animal rights movement has been extremely active in campaigning against bullfighting. Indeed, from 2002 to 2014, this was their main priority in terms of campaigns. In this article, I assess how these campaigns have been carried out, arguing that the animal rights movement in Portugal has been othering supporters and practitioners of bullfights in their campaigns. In other words, their campaigns have consisted of drawing a sharp contrast between bullfight supporters and practition…Read more
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32Are future generations that belong to language minorities entitled to group rights?South African Journal of Philosophy 35 (1): 1-8. 2016.In this article, I investigate to what extent future generations that belong to language minorities are entitled to group rights that protect their linguistic identity. In particular, I assess whether these future generations are entitled to assistance rights, symbolic claims, self-government rights and exemptions from the law. To address this I outline three arguments supporting group rights for current generations and raise the question of whether these arguments, which are true for current ge…Read more
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39MulticulturalismInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2014.Multiculturalism Cultural diversity has been present in societies for a very long time. In Ancient Greece, there were various small regions with different costumes, traditions, dialects and identities, for example, those from Aetolia, Locris, Doris and Epirus. In the Ottoman Empire, Muslims were the majority, but there were also Christians, Jews, pagan Arabs, and other […].
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Hunan University
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Hunan UniversityProfessor