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4Whitehead’s Conversion of Metaphysics to Speculative PhilosophyPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 19 (2): 137-151. 2018.Like many of his contemporaries such as Bradley and Collingwood, Whitehead wrote at a time when positivism was the dominant philosophical influence in British philosophy, following the disintegration of the Hegelian synthesis. Central to Whitehead’s philosophical project is the task of rehabilitation of metaphysics against the backdrop of its deconstruction by logical positivism. While Whitehead is broadly sympathetic to the ideal of metaphysics, he believes that the grandiose conception of meta…Read more
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18British idealism and the concept of the self: edited by William Mander and Stamatoula Panagakou, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 335, $109.99 (hb), ISBN: 978-1-137-46670-9British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (6): 1256-1261. 2020.W. J. Mander and Stamatoula Panagakou’s book is one of the latest expressions of the resurgence of British Idealism after its demotion in British philosophy as a result of the ascendancy of analyti...
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14Bradley’s Account of the Self as Appearance: Between Kant’s Transcendental Idealism and Hegel’s Speculative IdealismTattva - Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 1-18. 2018.The constitutive activity of the self and the ground of the unity of the self are two important aspects of understanding the self. This paper attempts to delineatethese considerations, tracing their use, function and implications in Bradley’s thesis on the self. The article argues that for Bradley, the focalization is on the understanding of the self and the relation of thought to reality. Furthermore, the article attempts to locate Bradley’s account of the self as appearance as a middle course …Read more
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23British idealism and the concept of the self: edited by William Mander and Stamatoula Panagakou, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 335, $109.99 (hb), ISBN: 978-1-137-46670-9 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (6): 1256-1261. 2020..
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1Globalization and the Question of African IdentitySociology and Anthropology 2018 (7). forthcoming.A prominent feature of the contemporary society in the last couple of decades is the phenomenon of globalization. While globalization has brought immense benefits to Africa on the one hand, Africa’s entrance into and participation in the global scene has also precipitated a crisis of confusion and identity for Africa–a situation which is analogous to the effect of her encounter with colonialism, so that unless the dialectic of identity and difference that inevitably arises from this situation is…Read more
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2Ayer's Critique of MetaphysicsEKPOMA Review 2 (2014): 35-55. 2014.Ayer’s critique of Metaphysics is much indebted to Hume and Kant’s pioneering appraisals of metaphysics. Its uniqueness lies mainly in the attempt to ground the rejection of metaphysics on a linguistic basis rather than epistemic premise as Hume and Kant before him. Yet it remains to be seen whether Ayer’s initiative fares better than its predecessors in discrediting metaphysics.
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Whitehead's Conversion of Metaphysics to Speculative PhilosophyPhilosophia 19 (2): 1-18. forthcoming.Like many of his contemporaries such as Bradley and Collingwood, Whitehead wrote at a time when positivism was the dominant philosophical influence in British philosophy, following the disintegration of the Hegelian synthesis. Central to Whitehead’s philosophical project is the task of rehabilitation of metaphysics against the backdrop of its deconstruction by logical positivism. While Whitehead is broadly sympathetic to the ideal of metaphysics, he believes that the grandiose conception of meta…Read more
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William JamesIn William Sweet (ed.), Biographical Encyclopedia of British Idealism, Thoemmes Continuum Press. 2010.
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Parmenides and the Question of the OneWAJOPS WEST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES 18 114-138. 2016.Parmenides is one of the greatest thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. His thought has been a major point of reference for many metaphysical discussions that define the history of philosophy. Indeed there is virtually no moment in the history of metaphysics that his thought has not been influential. It is usual to contrast his philosophy of the unchanging reality of the One with Heraclitus' philosophy of change and becoming. While his counter-intuitive denial of change is questionable …Read more