OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Larval intelligence: Approaching AI in terms of Deleuze’s “system of the dissolved self”	5
Testimony in African epistemology revisited	4
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	4
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	3
What is moral fetishism?	3
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	3
Do others mind? Moral agents without mental states	2
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	2
People and power in an African consensual democracy	2
African Metaphysics, Epistemology, and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy	2
Self model and selflessness	2
African metaphysics and disabilities	2
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	1
Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure	1
Editor’s introduction	1
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	1
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	1
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies	1
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	1
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	1
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	1
Guest editor’s introduction to Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Philosophical Dimensions	1
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights	1
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	1
Euthanasia in human beings versus companion animals	1

The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	1
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	1
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	1
Demystifying the African world view – mainstream science to the rescue	0
Rethinking the aptness of the analytic method in African philosophy in the light of Hallen and Sodipo’s knowledge-belief distinction	0
Okot p’Bitek’s case against traditional African theism	0
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	0
Metz’s conception of African communal ethics, global economic practices and decolonisation	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
Understanding gender identities in an African communitarian world view	0
Critical phenomenology, Mabogo More, and paracorporeal embodiment	0
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement: A phenomenological argument	0
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	0
Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable	0
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	0
Privilege: A critical inquiry	0
The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa	0
‘Blessed are the breadmakers … ’: Sociophobia, digital society and the enduring relevance of technological determinism	0
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism	0
“People aren’t numbers”: A critique of industrial rationality within neoliberal societies	0
Can Aristotelian virtue theory survive Fourth Order Technology? An ethics perspective	0
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasi-realism	0
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	0
Critical pedagogy, scholar activism and epistemic decolonisation	0
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	0
Correction	0
The loss of authentic being in the context of the consumer paradigm	0
Frege’s extrinsicism about the normativity of logic	0
Disembodiment, anonymity and oppressive freedom: An ethical enlightenment for virtual ontology	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
Two faces of control for moral responsibility	0
Would a transhuman be free, determined or both? The metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective	0
Scarcity of resources and distributive justice	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
Chieftaincy and traditional authority in modern democratic Ghana	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
The credence of statistical generalisations should not categorically license outright rational belief	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
Reviewing the law of non-contradiction: A Marxist reading	0
On law as poetry: Shelley and Tocqueville	0
Feminism and women in African philosophy	0

Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
Spectacles of social activism: pandemic and politicking in the age of digital media	0
Igbo values and women	0
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa	0
The good Dogs are still in the Portico: Making sense of the cynic-stoic moral and sociopolitical continuities	0
Existence as first philosophy	0
Laughter in the economic philosophy of Adam Smith	0
Life, death and commodification: Fear of death in the work of Adam Smith	0
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	0
Considering African philosophy as a way of life through the practice of philosophical counselling	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
The distributive justice doctrine of limitarianism	0
Moral risks and government policy in South Africa in the context of 4IR	0
Non-human animal ethics and the problem of ontological kinds	0
The ethics of the ethics of autonomous vehicles: Levinas and naked streets	0
Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
Control-experimental and data-scientific methods	0
Priority of duties, substantive human rights, and African communalism	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
The is-ought gap and the substitution criterion	0
Contracts and computers	0
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	0
Financial institutions should decline hackers’ requests for voluntary compensation	0
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	0
Wailing from the heights of velleity: A strong case for antinatalism in these trying times	0
Strange ethics, stranger politics: Levinas and Vice on escaping the passivity of shame	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
Multiculturalism, identity and language: Some critical remarks on Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism	0
Afrocentric education’s foundations of Wangari Maathai’s philosophical (ethical) leadership	0
The idea of rights in the African thought scheme	0
Why it is rational to expect the horrible – The future of humanity and climate change	0
Technological bias, illusory impartiality, and the injustice of hermeneutical obstruction	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual: disembodied challenges and embodied prospects	0
Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	0
Violence as a technological concept	0
Interrogating the mistreatment of sacred objects as art(efacts)	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	0