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    Reconsidering the will to power in Heidegger's ‘Nietzsche’
    South African Journal of Philosophy 35 (1): 111-120. 2016.
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    Heidegger, technology and ecology
    South African Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 157-172. 2003.
    This article investigates Heidegger's views on technology, specifically focussing on whether it is possible to fit Heidegger's ideas into an ecologically minded framework. The author concludes that the question of what we should do in the wake of the technological crisis we face is inappropriate in terms of Heidegger's philosophy, since he proposes that we should first tackle the question “What should we think?”. The question whether Heidegger's ideas on technology provide us with new paths of a…Read more
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    From Destruktion to Deconstruction: A Response to Moran
    South African Journal of Philosophy 27 (1): 52-68. 2008.
    As a response to Moran's (1994) recommendation that Heidegger's Destruktion be extensively elaborated and critiqued, this paper suggests a way in which Heidegger's thinking can be more clearly understood as a search for how better to ‘say' the destruction. By briefly tracing how Heidegger's thinking on the Destruktion repeatedly turns against itself throughout his writings, it is demonstrated that Heidegger does indeed revise the notion by abandoning the term in his later writing; to replace it …Read more
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    Gender and Humanoid Robots
    Filosofia Theoretica 10 (3): 119-130. 2021.
    I discuss in this paper how robotic scientists tend to produce replicas of human bodies that are consistent with their own cultural norms by exploring how gender is embodied in humanoid robots. My focus is specifically on care robots, and their reception in the African context. I argue that since the bodies of the robotic scientists are the reference points according to which they design and manufacture robots, a somaesthetics of robotics can best reveal and challenge how gendered norms are mate…Read more
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    Gender and Humanoid Robots: A Somaesthetic Analysis
    Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 10 (3): 119-130. 2021.
    I discuss in this paper how robotic scientists tend to produce replicas of human bodies that are consistent with their own cultural norms by exploring how gender is embodied in humanoid robots. My focus is specifically on care robots, and their reception in the African context. I argue that since the bodies of the robotic scientists are the reference points according to which they design and manufacture robots, a somaesthetics of robotics can best reveal and challenge how gendered norms are mate…Read more
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    In _African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics_, Catherine F. Botha brings together original research on the body in African cultures, interrogating the possible contribution of a somaesthetic approach in the context of colonization, decolonization, and globalization in Africa.
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    D. C. S. Oosthuizen on Husserl’s Doctrine of Constitution
    Husserl Studies 32 (2): 131-147. 2016.
    The following is an English translation of the 1960 paper by the South African philosopher D. C. S. Oosthuizen entitled “Die Transendentaal-Frenomenologiese Idealisme: ‘n Aspek van die konstitusie-probleem in die filosofie van Edmund Husserl,” preceded by a few contextualizing remarks by the translator. The paper attempts to show that the phenomenological, eidetic and transcendental reductions, the problem of constitution and transcendental genesis are indispensable parts of the transcendental p…Read more
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    Phenomenology and Naturalism
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (3): 285-288. 2016.
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    Phenomenology and its Futures
    South African Journal of Philosophy 32 (4): 291-294. 2013.
    Born in 1900–1901 with the publication of Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations, phenomenology, as a critical method of reflection on consciousness and its cognitive achievements against its naturalisation in the natural sciences, has undergone many changes and developments. Critiques of both its methods and tasks have emerged, plus it has served as an inspiration for numerous thinkers, including Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merle…Read more