Publication


Books

2017


1       “Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation, Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books (With Odirin Omiegbe).


Edited Books

2018

3       “Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy“, New York: Palsgrave Macmillan.

2       “Ka Osi SọOnye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era“, Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press (With Jonathan O. Chimakonam).

1       “Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, London: Routledge


Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

2017

27     “Substancehood in Locke, Spinoza, and Kant,” Philosophia: International Journal of  Philosophy,2017 18(1):43-59.

26     “Moral Education, Ubuntu and Ubuntu-inspired Communities,” South African Journal of Philosophy, 2017 36(2):311-325.

25     “Ubuntu, Cosmopolitanism and Distribution of Natural Resources,” Philosophical Papers,March 2017 46(1):139-162.

24     “Anthropocentricism, African Metaphysical Worldview, and Animal Practices: A Reply to Kai Horsthemke,” Journal of Animal Ethics7(2):145-162.

 

2016

23     “African Philosophy: Past, Present and Future,” Philosophia Africana, Summer/Fall 2016 18(1):1-7 (With Jonathan Chimakonam).

22     “Religion, Culture, Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria,” African Journal of Disability 5(1):1-6 (With Odirin Omiegbe).

21     “Why Ought the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa be Africanized?” South African Journal of Philosophy(Special Issue, December 2016) 35(4):404-417.

20     “African Philosophy and Proverbs: The Case of Logic in Urhobo Proverbs,” Philosophia Africana, Summer/Fall 2016 18(1):21-39.

19     “African Philosophy in the Eyes of the West,” Phronimon2016 17(1):84-103.

18     “Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Task of Africanizing the Philosophy Curriculum,” South African Journal of Philosophy(Special Issue, December 2016) 35(4):377-382.

 

2015

17     “Virtues, Freedom of Expression and Dissent, and Dēmokratía,”Social Action January 2 – March 2015, 65:1-16.

16    “Descartes and Epistemology With or Without God,” Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 2015,16(1):65-86.

 

2014

15     “Themes in Brand Blanshard’s Coherence Theory of Truth,” Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 2014, 15(1):11-24.

14     “Post-Modern Thinking and African Philosophy,” Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 3(1): 67-82.

 

2013

13    “Bargaining and Agreement in Gauthier’s Moral Contractarianism,” South African Journal of Philosophy, 32(3): 221-233.

12     “The Case of Competency and Informed Consent,” Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics,S12:001. doi:10.4172/2155-9627.S12-001 (http://www.omicsonline.org/the-case-of-competency-and-informed-consent-2155-9627.S12-001.pdf).

11      “Preliminary Reflections on the Privatization Policy in Nigeria,” African Journal of Economic ManagementStudies, 4(1):144-152.

 

2012

10      Cartesian Circle, the Principle of Clarity and Distinctness, and God,”Lumina, 23(1):81-93.

9        “Genetic Enhancement, Social Justice, and Welfare-oriented Patterns of Distribution,” Bioethics, 26(6):296-304.

 

2011

8       “The Self, Individual Moral Responsibility and Community,”Testamentum Imperium, 2011 3:1-26.

7       “The Ethical Dimension of Ubuntu and its Relationship to Environmental Sustainability,” Journal of African Environmental Ethics and Values 1(1):116-130.

6       “’God is Dead!’ Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Some Reflections on Religiosity in Nigeria,” Nigerian Journal of Philosophy, 24(1):1-17.

5       “An Outline of an Ecumenical Environmental Ethic,” The Trumpeter,7(3):47-59.

4       “Ethics of Government Privatization in Nigeria,” Thought and Practice, 3(1):87-112.

3       “Privatization in Nigeria, Social Welfare, and the Obligation of Social Justice,” Journal of Economics, 2(1):37-44.

2        “Political Reparationists and the Moral Case for Reparations to Africa for Colonialism,” Africa Insight, 40(4):22-34.

 

2010

  1       “Cartesian Hyperbolic Doubts and the ‘Painting Analogy’ in the First Meditation,” Diametros,24: 45-57.


Book Chapters (Peer-reviewed and Invited)

2018

6       “Media and Ethos: Influencing Elections in African Politics,” in Rotimi Williams Olatunji, Abigail Ogwuezi-Ndisika, Nicholas S. Iwokwagh (eds.) Media, Governance, Sustainable Development and Corporate Communication, Lagos, University of Lagos Press (With Godwin Oboh), forthcoming.

5       “African Philosophy in the Court of Postmodernism,” in Ka Osi SọOnye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era, Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Edwin Etieyibo (eds.), Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.2015

4       “Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World,” in Paul Ugor and Lord Mawuko-Yevugah(eds.), African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance,Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015, pp. 127-147.

3       “The Question of Cultural Imperialism in African Philosophy,” in Jonathan O. Chimakonam (ed.) Atuolu Omalu:Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy, Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America,2015, pp.147    170.

 

2012

2       “The Ontological Presuppositions in Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X’s Philosophies of Black Liberation” in A Study in African Socio-Political Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Muyiwa Falaiye, Antony Okeregbe Samuel B. Jegede, Dotun Ogunkoya (eds.), Lagos, University of Lagos Press, 2012, pp19-43.

 

2006

1       “Libertarianism and the Dichotomy between Positive and Negative Rights,” An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Patricia Hanna et al eds., Athens, Athens Institute for Education and Research, pp.403-419.


Book Reviews

2015

1      “A Review of the New Africa – Dispatches from a Changing Continent” By Robert Press, Ogirisi: a New Journal of African Studies, 11, 2015, pp.209-216

 

2014

3   “Understanding Ethics”, 3rd edition (Torbjörn Tännsjö) Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, South African Journal of Philosophy, 33(3):375-376.

2   “The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa” (Robert Trent Vinson), African Historical Review, 46 (1): 98-101.

 

2013

1       “The Founders: The Origins of the ANC and the Struggle for Democracy in South Africa” (André Odendaal), African Historical Review, 45 (2):142-144.


Other Publications

2015

1       “Africanizing the Philosophy Curricula in Universities in Africa”, Art Africa Digital (Becoming African) November, 2015.