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299How to Think with the Global South. Essay Review of Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Routledge, 2021. (review)Philosophy of Science 90 (1): 209-217. 2023.Extended Essay Review of the 26 chapters in the collection Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Routledge, 2021.
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94Ubuntu, Cosmopolitanism, and Distribution of Natural ResourcesPhilosophical Papers 46 (1): 139-162. 2017.In this paper, I argue that Ubuntu can be construed as a strict form of cosmopolitan moral and political theory. The implication of this is that the duty or obligation that humans owe other humans arises in virtue of humanity or the notion of human-ness. That is, one is a person insofar as he or she forms humane relations and it is this particular way of beingness that makes every person both an object and subject of duty. On this cosmopolitan interpretation of Ubuntu, I therefore, argue that Ub…Read more
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82Genetic enhancement, social justice, and welfare-oriented patterns of distributionBioethics 26 (6): 296-304. 2012.The debate over the host of moral issues that genetic enhancement technology (GET) raises has been significant. One argument that has been advanced to impugn its moral legitimacy is the ‘unfair advantage argument’ (UAA), which states: allowing access to GET to be determined by socio-economic status would lead to unjust outcomes, namely, create a genetic caste system, and with it the exacerbation and perpetuation of existing socio-economic inequalities. Fritz Allhoff has recently objected to the …Read more
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37Bargaining and agreement in Gauthier's moral contractarianismSouth African Journal of Philosophy 32 (3): 221-233. 2013.Bargaining and distribution of benefits accruing from social cooperation are central topics in contractarian accounts of morality or distributive justice in general and David Gauthier’s Morals by Agreement in particular. In this paper, I raise some problems for MbA both with regards to bargaining over the benefits of social cooperation and the distribution of such benefits. The worries I raise piggyback on a couple of Jan Narveson’s earlier queries of some of the topics in MbA: those of ‘questio…Read more
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37Moral education, ubuntu and ubuntu-inspired communitiesSouth African Journal of Philosophy 36 (3): 311-325. 2017.
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31Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2021.This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as…Read more
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27Anthropocentrism, African Metaphysical Worldview, and Animal Practices: A Reply to Kai HorsthemkeJournal of Animal Ethics 7 (2): 145-162. 2017.In his recently published book Animals and African Ethics, Kai Horsthemke makes two important and related claims. The first is that most African metaphysical, religious, and ethical positions and perspectives on animals are anthropocentric. Second, he states that if there are one or more principles of duties regarding other animals derivable from these positions and perspectives, they are at best “indirect duties.” In this article, I critically engage with these claims in the context of the onto…Read more
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26Cartesian hyperbolic doubts and the “painting analogy” in the First MeditationDiametros 24 45-57. 2010.René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is his most celebrated philosophical work. The book remains one of the most significant and influential works in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of mind in the history of Western philosophy. In this paper I examine the relationship between the various hyperbolic doubts, the dreaming, imperfect creator, and evil demon hypotheses in Meditation I. The paper shows that the "painting analogy" occupies a central position in the First Meditation …Read more
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25The Ethics of Government Privatisation in NigeriaThought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 3 (1): 87-112. 2011.This paper seeks to determine whether or not the divesture of Nigeria’s state-owned enterprises by the Federal Government of Nigeria is ethical. Towards this end, it employs an analytic methodology to undertake a conceptual examination of the divesture of Nigeria’s SOEs by the FGN. The paper’s findings are: A large proportion of the Nigerian citizenry is opposed to its government’s privatization policy. A conducive socio-economic environment for privatization is lacking in Nigeria.The paper conc…Read more
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23The Case of Competency and Informed ConsentJournal of Clinical Research and Bioethics 4 (2). 2013.
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21Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person (edited book)Lexington Books. 2020.This book examines issues relating to Menkiti’s “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought,” which articulates an African notion of personhood. Contributors not only show that personhood is normative but also explore the implications this notion of personhood and citizenship holds for the nation-state in Africa.
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19Why ought the philosophy curriculum in universities in Africa be Africanised?South African Journal of Philosophy 35 (4): 404-417. 2016.
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18Race, Intellectual Racism, and the Opened DoorCritical Philosophy of Race 11 (2): 309-338. 2023.ABSTRACT There are forms of discriminations that are not defensible, and unjustified discriminations manifest in different forms. One such manifestation is racism, which involves the use of morally arbitrary natural and moral constituents (characteristics, abilities, qualities) to demarcate racial or ethnic groups and consequently designate some groups as superior and others as inferior. In this article, I discuss one form of racism (intellectual racism), namely, racism in relation to color, as …Read more
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16Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.This book takes stock of the strides made to date in African philosophy. Authors focus on four important aspects of African philosophy: the history, methodological debates, substantive issues in the field, and direction for the future. By collating this anthology, Edwin E. Etieyibo excavates both current and primordial knowledge in African philosophy, enhancing the development of this growing field.
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16Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violenceSouth African Journal of Philosophy 42 (3): 230-245. 2023.A large and important part of social relations is gender relations between men and women. Over time, the manifestation of such relations has often been one of violence, particularly violence against women. Different approaches have been deployed to deal with the experience of gender-based violence (GBV). One popular approach is the human rights framework that suggest that GBV can be addressed by granting certain rights to women. We argue that while a human rights framework holds some promise in …Read more
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15Trivalent Logic, African Logic, and African MetaphysicsIn Björn Freter, Elvis Imafidon & Mpho Tshivhase (eds.), Handbook of African Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 265-279. 2023.The claim that is examined in this chapter is that, as is bivalent logic, trivalent logic occupies a place in the field of logic. A trivalent logic is a three-value logical system, and a bivalent logic is a two-value logical system. As part of advancing this claim, the chapter uses the examples of trivalent logic in Charles Sanders Peirce’s thought, the trivalent logic of Janus, the Aymará trivalent logical system, and African trivalent logic. Using the example of ancestorhood, where characteris…Read more
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14Feminism and women in African philosophySouth African Journal of Philosophy 42 (3): 161-164. 2023.In this preamble, we highlight some of the more recent work on gender and sexuality in African philosophy. We do this as a way of introducing the special issue on “African Philosophy, Women, and Feminism”. In particular, we outline and highlight the trajectory and intellectual landscape of several discussions on women and feminism in African philosophy in the issue, and in this way, build on some previous work on gender, women, sexuality and African philosophy.
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14Igbo values and womenSouth African Journal of Philosophy 42 (3): 202-216. 2023.This article discusses some of the core values among the Igbos. This is done partly as a way of showing the way in which these values play out both in gender relations in and highlighting the way women are viewed. In this sense, our attempt here should be understood as an investigation. The values that we examine are those of truthfulness or truth, respect or respectfulness and industry or industriousness or hard work. The aim is to help make the case that in Igboland women are neither marginali…Read more
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14Global Warming, Climate Change and JusticePhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 21 (1): 50-76. 2020.As an international instrument on climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change embraces a general obligation to protect the climate system, from which some specific obligations for developed countries fall off from. In this paper, I discuss three of such obligations. Firstly, the obligation to address the causes of climate change and to mitigate its adverse effects, next, the obligation to assist developing countries that are vulnerable to the adverse effects of clim…Read more
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11Descartes and Epistemology With or Without GodPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 16 (1): 65-86. 2015.The conventioral understanding takes God to pray a pivotal philosophical role in Descartes's epistemological project. Michael Della Rocca disagrees with this interpretation. In a recent article, " Descartes, the Cartesian Circle, and epistemology without God," he forcefully argues for the view that takes God to be peripheral and at the fringe of Descartes's account of knowledge. He argues that Descartes renders God less important in his epistemology simply in virtue of having normative certainty…Read more
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10Post-modern thinking and African PhilosophyFilosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 3 (1): 67-82. 2014.I want to do a couple of things in this essay. First, I want to articulate the central direction that postmodern thinking or philosophy takes. Second, I want to present a brief sketch of African philosophy, focusing mostly on some aspects of African ethics. Third, I want to gesture towards the view that while postmodern thinking seems to suggest that African philosophy is a legitimate narrative or “language game” it could be argued that given its central ideas and doctrines African philosophy ma…Read more
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10Guest editor’s introduction: The task of Africanising the philosophy curriculum in universities in AfricaSouth African Journal of Philosophy 35 (4): 377-382. 2016.
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10Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in AfricaSouth African Journal of Philosophy 42 (3): 165-175. 2023.The existence of current feminist thought in Africa is tainted by colonialism. Colonial and postcolonial anthropological thought and Eurocentric scholarship have misrepresented Africa as a society where social and gender roles were largely lopsided. Hence, current feminist thought (which are largely Western) on oppression of women, subjugation and suppression were imposed on the historicity of Africans. In this article, we argue that the misrepresentations of feminism of the indigenous societal …Read more
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9Moral Force and the “It-It” in Menkiti’s Normative Conception of PersonhoodFilosofia Theoretica 7 (2): 47-59. 2018.What is the status and nature of the “it” and the ontological progression from an “it” to an “it” in Ifeanyi Menkiti’s normative conception of a person? In this article, I attempt to preliminarily give some nuance content to the “it” of childhood and the “it” of the nameless dead. My motivation is straightforwardly simple: to defend Menkiti’s claim that both “its” have some depersonalised moral standing or existence. However, in doing so, I argue that a better account of the ontological progress…Read more
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8On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African EthicsIn Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Edwin Etieyibo & Ike Odimegwu (eds.), Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 125-143. 2021.In this chapter, I begin the first attempt at mapping out what I consider to be the one concept of African ethics and some of its many accounts. I take the one concept of African ethics to be the general idea or notion of African morality and the many accounts to be narrations or versions that try to flesh out this concept. Regarding the one concept of African ethics, I suggest that constitutive of it or characteristic of it is communal flourishing. Taking Ubuntu, Ujamaa, and Ukama as representa…Read more
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7Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African philosophy in the postmodern era (edited book)Vernon Press. 2018.This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled 'The journey of reason in African philosophy', and part two is titled 'African philosophy and postmodern thinking'. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book…Read more
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7Metz’s Heterochthonous Relational Moral Theory and Business EthicsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 1-18. forthcoming.One of the practical ethical areas that Thaddeus Metz applied his Relational Moral Theory (RMT) to is business ethics. In this important area of applied ethics, Metz examines the question of how business owners, and related agents ought to deal with others, especially workers and consumers. He argues that the relational account of obligations recommends a stakeholder model of business and provides a plausible alternative (if not better to) familiar kinds of utilitarianism and Kantianism. In this…Read more
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