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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Personhood and a meaningful life in African philosophy	24
A systematic account of African conceptions of the meaning of/in life	20
African theories of meaning in life: A critical assessment	16
The African vital force theory of meaning in life	13
An African approach to the meaning of life	11
The traditional Yorùbá conception of a meaningful life	7
Philosophical racism and ubuntu: In dialogue with Mogobe Ramose	6
Situational ambivalence of the meaning of life in Yorùbá thought	5
Here’s not looking at you, kid: A new defence of anti-natalism	4
Living as a person until death: An African ethical perspective on meaning in life	4
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	3
An Afrocentric conceptualisation of life and immortality of values: A critical investigation on the paranormal and human dignity in southern Africa	3
Can anti-natalists oppose human extinction? The harm-benefit asymmetry, person-uploading, and human enhancement	3
Testimony in African epistemology revisited	3
The ethics of the ethics of autonomous vehicles: Levinas and naked streets	2
Civil disobedience outside of the liberal democratic framework: The case of Sudan	2
Chieftaincy and traditional authority in modern democratic Ghana	2
An African response to absurdism	2
The prospects of the method of wide reflective equilibrium in contemporary African epistemology	2
Ethnic and racial valorisations in Nigeria and South Africa: How ubuntu may harm or help	2
Rescuing sufficientarianism from itself	2
Critical pedagogy, scholar activism and epistemic decolonisation	2
Wailing from the heights of velleity: A strong case for antinatalism in these trying times	2
Guest editor’s introduction: African perspectives to the question of life’s meaning	2
African metaphysics and disabilities	2

Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	1
On law as poetry: Shelley and Tocqueville	1
Jack and the Beanstalk: The human plot in narrative traditions and contemporary global culture	1
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	1
Active citizenship in contemporary democratic practice in Africa: Challenges and prospects	1
The problem with the individualist approach to the principle of the immunity of non-combatants	1
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	1
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa	1
Rethinking the aptness of the analytic method in African philosophy in the light of Hallen and Sodipo’s knowledge-belief distinction	1
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	1
Guest editor’s introduction to Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Philosophical Dimensions	1
People and power in an African consensual democracy	1
Afrocentric education’s foundations of Wangari Maathai’s philosophical (ethical) leadership	1
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	1
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	1
Laughter in the economic philosophy of Adam Smith	1
New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind	1
Do others mind? Moral agents without mental states	1
The (oh-so-queerly-embodied) virtual	0
Reviewing the law of non-contradiction: A Marxist reading	0
Would a transhuman be free, determined or both? The metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective	0
Financial institutions should decline hackers’ requests for voluntary compensation	0
Why would very bad lives be worth continuing?	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
Is a sensation a concept-involving object?	0
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	0
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	0
Contracts and computers	0
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	0
Correction	0
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasi-realism	0
The is-ought gap and the substitution criterion	0
Institutions of freedom – Axel Honneth’s reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right	0
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
Privilege: A critical inquiry	0
Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
Disembodiment, anonymity and oppressive freedom: An ethical enlightenment for virtual ontology	0
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	0
Strange ethics, stranger politics: Levinas and Vice on escaping the passivity of shame	0
Understanding gender identities in an African communitarian world view	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
On beauty and human encounter as an alternative to tolerance in the quest for societal change in South Africa	0
The “six-line essay” writing intervention for first-year philosophy students: A preliminary report	0

“Physio-psychology”: Nietzsche’s mixed discourse	0
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	0
Priority of duties, substantive human rights, and African communalism	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
Editor’s introduction	0
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies	0
‘Blessed are the breadmakers … ’: Sociophobia, digital society and the enduring relevance of technological determinism	0
Against overgeneralisation objections to the argument from moral disagreement	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
Life, death and commodification: Fear of death in the work of Adam Smith	0
Control-experimental and data-scientific methods	0
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	0
Igbo values and women	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	0
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	0
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	0
“Cunning of Reason” and the Igbo concept ofChi: Towards a philosophical rapprochement with Hegel	0
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	0
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
Interrogating the mistreatment of sacred objects as art(efacts)	0
Larval intelligence: Approaching AI in terms of Deleuze’s “system of the dissolved self”	0
Correction	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	0
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	0
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	0
Promoting stability and peace in multi-ethnic African countries by reducing the marginalisation of ethnic minorities	0
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	0
The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights	0
Can Aristotelian virtue theory survive Fourth Order Technology? An ethics perspective	0
Wiredu and Eze on consensual democracy and the question of consensual rationality	0
Existence as first philosophy	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
The non-existent objects of belief	0
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
Moral risks and government policy in South Africa in the context of 4IR	0
Self model and selflessness	0
Reading Plato and Aristotle in contemporary South Africa	0
Feminism and women in African philosophy	0
Rethinking history and potentiality: Across Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger	0