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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	9
Editorial	6
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	4
Would a transhuman be free, determined or both? The metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective	3
Euthanasia in human beings versus companion animals	3
Understanding gender identities in an African communitarian world view	2
Demystifying the African world view – mainstream science to the rescue	2
Privilege: A critical inquiry	2
“Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!” South African hate speech re-evaluated within a poststructuralist perspective	2
Dreams and dreaming: Stone Age defence mechanisms or by-products of sleep?	2
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	2
Hospitality in Homer’s Odyssey : the duty and virtue of hosts (countries and individuals) and of guests (immigrants and refugees)	2
Reviewing the law of non-contradiction: A Marxist reading	1
Igbo values and women	1
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	1
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	1
Violence as a technological concept	1
The is-ought gap and the substitution criterion	1
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa	1
Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable	1
Why it is rational to expect the horrible – The future of humanity and climate change	1
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	1
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	1
Afrocentric education’s foundations of Wangari Maathai’s philosophical (ethical) leadership	1
African metaphysics and disabilities	1

Crowd-sourced peer review: wisdom or tyranny of the crowd?	1
Rethinking the aptness of the analytic method in African philosophy in the light of Hallen and Sodipo’s knowledge-belief distinction	0
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	0
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	0
Priority of duties, substantive human rights, and African communalism	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
Editor’s introduction	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
Chieftaincy and traditional authority in modern democratic Ghana	0
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual: disembodied challenges and embodied prospects	0
Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	0
Scarcity of resources and distributive justice	0
Spectacles of social activism: pandemic and politicking in the age of digital media	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	0
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa	0
Two faces of control for moral responsibility	0
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	0
The credence of statistical generalisations should not categorically license outright rational belief	0
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	0
Wailing from the heights of velleity: A strong case for antinatalism in these trying times	0
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	0
The idea of rights in the African thought scheme	0
Whose cosmopolitanism is it, anyway?: Western museums, looted artifacts, postcolonial identities and restitution in Africa	0
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement: A phenomenological argument	0
Life, death and commodification: Fear of death in the work of Adam Smith	0
‘Blessed are the breadmakers … ’: Sociophobia, digital society and the enduring relevance of technological determinism	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
Testimony in African epistemology revisited	0
Self model and selflessness	0
Towards an indigenous and traditional “pedagogy of repair”: an ecological approach to environmental education	0
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	0
Wonder and empathy in environmental ethics	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism	0
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	0
Feminism and women in African philosophy	0
Critical phenomenology, Mabogo More, and paracorporeal embodiment	0
The loss of authentic being in the context of the consumer paradigm	0
Critical pedagogy, scholar activism and epistemic decolonisation	0
Okot p’Bitek’s case against traditional African theism	0
The priority of preferences in the evolution of minds	0
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasi-realism	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
Correction	0
Multiculturalism, identity and language: Some critical remarks on Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism	0

Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0
Contracts and computers	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
Afro-communitarianism and the category mistake charge: A reply to critics	0
On law as poetry: Shelley and Tocqueville	0
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	0
People and power in an African consensual democracy	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche	0
Frege’s extrinsicism about the normativity of logic	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
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	0
Considering African philosophy as a way of life through the practice of philosophical counselling	0
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	0
What is moral fetishism?	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
Laughter in the economic philosophy of Adam Smith	0
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies	0
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	0
Technological bias, illusory impartiality, and the injustice of hermeneutical obstruction	0
Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
The good Dogs are still in the Portico: Making sense of the cynic-stoic moral and sociopolitical continuities	0
African Metaphysics, Epistemology, and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
Non-human animal ethics and the problem of ontological kinds	0
Was J. C. Smuts an idealist philosopher?	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
Open-textured moral concepts	0
The distributive justice doctrine of limitarianism	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
Metz’s conception of African communal ethics, global economic practices and decolonisation	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	0
Virtue ethics and situationism: Proposing a path forward with self-sustained virtues and a therapeutic aim	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	0
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	0
“People aren’t numbers”: A critique of industrial rationality within neoliberal societies	0
Existence as first philosophy	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	0
Whewell’s fundamental antithesis: A lineage of influence	0
Interrogating the mistreatment of sacred objects as art(efacts)	0
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	0
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	0