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Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Philosophy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	21
Editorial	9
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	5
Euthanasia in human beings versus companion animals	3
The peace theories of Rawls and Kant: Basic structure, original position and substantive principle	3
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	2
Would a transhuman be free, determined or both? The metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective	2
Hospitality in Homer’s Odyssey : the duty and virtue of hosts (countries and individuals) and of guests (immigrants and refugees)	2
Demystifying the African world view – mainstream science to the rescue	2
Happiness, circumstance, and the environment: Philosophy’s crucial voice in times of environmental crisis	2
Privilege: A critical inquiry	2
“Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!” South African hate speech re-evaluated within a poststructuralist perspective	2
Phenomenology of contingency: Reflections on More’s African phenomenology	2
Dreams and dreaming: Stone Age defence mechanisms or by-products of sleep?	2
Understanding gender identities in an African communitarian world view	2
The tragedy of the commons revisited: Hardin meets Ostrom	2
Why it is rational to expect the horrible – The future of humanity and climate change	1
More listening: Philosophy as bluesology	1
Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable	1
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	1
Mabogo Percy More as a philosopher of emancipation	1
Virtue ethics and situationism: Proposing a path forward with self-sustained virtues and a therapeutic aim	1
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	1
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	1
Igbo values and women	1

African metaphysics and disabilities	1
Metz’s conception of African communal ethics, global economic practices and decolonisation	1
Special Issue on Mabogo Percy More	1
Environmental vulnerability: Disambiguations and possibilities for climate adaptation	1
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	1
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	1
Violence as a technological concept	1
False hope: A philosophical analysis	1
Crowd-sourced peer review: wisdom or tyranny of the crowd?	1
Afro-communitarianism and the category mistake charge: A reply to critics	1
Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment	1
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
Contracts and computers	0
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	0
Life, death and commodification: Fear of death in the work of Adam Smith	0
Whose cosmopolitanism is it, anyway?: Western museums, looted artifacts, postcolonial identities and restitution in Africa	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
Considering African philosophy as a way of life through the practice of philosophical counselling	0
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	0
Regulating the use of germline genetic engineering on humans	0
Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0
Critical phenomenology, Mabogo More, and paracorporeal embodiment	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	0
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	0
More and the possibility of a non-humanist black existentialism	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
The role of feminist environmental ethics in curbing gender-based violence	0
Ìwà: The process-Relational Dimension to African metaphysics	0
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	0
The loss of authentic being in the context of the consumer paradigm	0
Technological bias, illusory impartiality, and the injustice of hermeneutical obstruction	0
Philosophical reflections on the life and works of Mabogo Percy More	0
Wang Yangming on blame	0
Whewell’s fundamental antithesis: A lineage of influence	0
Correction	0
Existence as first philosophy	0
Orality, literacy and knowledge traditions in Africa	0
Spectacles of social activism: pandemic and politicking in the age of digital media	0
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	0
Wonder and empathy in environmental ethics	0
The distributive justice doctrine of limitarianism	0
Was J. C. Smuts an idealist philosopher?	0
Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure	0

Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	0
On the “bullshit” of the intelligent explosion and singularity discourse	0
Feminism and women in African philosophy	0
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement: A phenomenological argument	0
Friedrich Hölderlin and the access to being as ground: A critical examination	0
Noel Chabani Manganyi: Being-Black-While-Alienated in Apartheid South Africa	0
An absurdist approach to radical climate activism: Understanding responses to the climate change problem	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
Multiculturalism, identity and language: Some critical remarks on Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism	0
African Metaphysics, Epistemology, and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy	0
Scarcity of resources and distributive justice	0
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights	0
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	0
Looking Through Philosophy in Black	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
Towards an indigenous and traditional “pedagogy of repair”: an ecological approach to environmental education	0
Okot p’Bitek’s case against traditional African theism	0
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual: disembodied challenges and embodied prospects	0
The credence of statistical generalisations should not categorically license outright rational belief	0
‘Blessed are the breadmakers … ’: Sociophobia, digital society and the enduring relevance of technological determinism	0
The priority of preferences in the evolution of minds	0
Philosophical practice and Confucianism: A comparison of consultation styles	0
Mabogo Percy More: Recollections from the University of Durban-Westville period	0
Green anthropocentrism: Delineating a new position and how it is enabled by Nussbaum’s capabilities approach	0
Non-human animal ethics and the problem of ontological kinds	0
Ubuntu philosophy, old-age humanism and eldercare ethics during COVID-19	0
Self model and selflessness	0
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	0
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	0
Ecology as oikology – reflections on science and worldview	0
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	0
Three contexts of climate-induced cultural heritage devastation in Africa: Implications for climate justice	0
Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	0
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	0
The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
The role of mysticism in cults and religion	0
Set and setting: The missing factors in Chris Letheby’s psychedelic philosophy	0
“People aren’t numbers”: A critique of industrial rationality within neoliberal societies	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
Editor’s introduction	0
Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
Two faces of control for moral responsibility	0
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
Food production and Afrikan metaphysical thought in the time of polycrisis	0
Philosophy, solidarity and liberation: A tribute to Mabogo P. More	0
Intersecting identities: Matolino’s limited communitarianism and its implications for LGBTQ+ in African communities	0
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism	0
The good Dogs are still in the Portico: Making sense of the cynic-stoic moral and sociopolitical continuities	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
Black feminist transcendence framework: Mabogo P. More’s politics of being and intersectionality	0
Advancing global economic justice in the face of race: Mwipikeni’s critique of Metz’s reformist normative economics	0
Revisiting Shea on ecophilosophy: An interrogation of “dominance” in ecophilosophy	0
The idea of rights in the African thought scheme	0
Open-textured moral concepts	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
Frege’s extrinsicism about the normativity of logic	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	0
What is moral fetishism?	0
Strange ethics, stranger politics: Levinas and Vice on escaping the passivity of shame	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
Guest editor’s introduction: Environmental philosophy in southern Africa	0