OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Chieftaincy and traditional authority in modern democratic Ghana	5
Here’s not looking at you, kid: A new defence of anti-natalism	5
The ethics of the ethics of autonomous vehicles: Levinas and naked streets	4
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	4
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa	3
Testimony in African epistemology revisited	3
People and power in an African consensual democracy	3
Critical pedagogy, scholar activism and epistemic decolonisation	2
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	2
The prospects of the method of wide reflective equilibrium in contemporary African epistemology	2
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	2
Wailing from the heights of velleity: A strong case for antinatalism in these trying times	2
African metaphysics and disabilities	2
Laughter in the economic philosophy of Adam Smith	1
Guest editor’s introduction to Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Philosophical Dimensions	1
Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable	1
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	1
‘Blessed are the breadmakers … ’: Sociophobia, digital society and the enduring relevance of technological determinism	1
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	1
New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind	1
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	1
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	1
Afrocentric education’s foundations of Wangari Maathai’s philosophical (ethical) leadership	1
On law as poetry: Shelley and Tocqueville	1
Rethinking the aptness of the analytic method in African philosophy in the light of Hallen and Sodipo’s knowledge-belief distinction	1

Active citizenship in contemporary democratic practice in Africa: Challenges and prospects	1
Do others mind? Moral agents without mental states	1
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	1
Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	1
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	1
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	0
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	0
Violence as a technological concept	0
Feminism and women in African philosophy	0
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies	0
Existence as first philosophy	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights	0
Strange ethics, stranger politics: Levinas and Vice on escaping the passivity of shame	0
Demystifying the African world view – mainstream science to the rescue	0
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	0
Financial institutions should decline hackers’ requests for voluntary compensation	0
Disembodiment, anonymity and oppressive freedom: An ethical enlightenment for virtual ontology	0
Wiredu and Eze on consensual democracy and the question of consensual rationality	0
“People aren’t numbers”: A critique of industrial rationality within neoliberal societies	0
What is moral fetishism?	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
Metz’s conception of African communal ethics, global economic practices and decolonisation	0
Larval intelligence: Approaching AI in terms of Deleuze’s “system of the dissolved self”	0
Can Aristotelian virtue theory survive Fourth Order Technology? An ethics perspective	0
Non-human animal ethics and the problem of ontological kinds	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	0
Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
The is-ought gap and the substitution criterion	0
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasi-realism	0
Control-experimental and data-scientific methods	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
Euthanasia in human beings versus companion animals	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
Promoting stability and peace in multi-ethnic African countries by reducing the marginalisation of ethnic minorities	0
Correction	0
Understanding gender identities in an African communitarian world view	0
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	0
Igbo values and women	0
Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	0
Reviewing the law of non-contradiction: A Marxist reading	0
“Cunning of Reason” and the Igbo concept ofChi: Towards a philosophical rapprochement with Hegel	0
The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	0
Scarcity of resources and distributive justice	0

Interrogating the mistreatment of sacred objects as art(efacts)	0
African Metaphysics, Epistemology, and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
Priority of duties, substantive human rights, and African communalism	0
The idea of rights in the African thought scheme	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
Contracts and computers	0
Life, death and commodification: Fear of death in the work of Adam Smith	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
Multiculturalism, identity and language: Some critical remarks on Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism	0
Why it is rational to expect the horrible – The future of humanity and climate change	0
Privilege: A critical inquiry	0
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	0
The distributive justice doctrine of limitarianism	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	0
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa	0
Two faces of control for moral responsibility	0
Editor’s introduction	0
The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche	0
Moral risks and government policy in South Africa in the context of 4IR	0
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
Self model and selflessness	0
Okot p’Bitek’s case against traditional African theism	0
Rethinking history and potentiality: Across Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger	0
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
Would a transhuman be free, determined or both? The metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective	0
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	0
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement: A phenomenological argument	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
Is a sensation a concept-involving object?	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	0
The good Dogs are still in the Portico: Making sense of the cynic-stoic moral and sociopolitical continuities	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure	0