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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	10
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	7
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	5
Euthanasia in human beings versus companion animals	4
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	3
Would a transhuman be free, determined or both? The metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective	3
Dreams and dreaming: Stone Age defence mechanisms or by-products of sleep?	3
Hospitality in Homer’s Odyssey : the duty and virtue of hosts (countries and individuals) and of guests (immigrants and refugees)	2
Understanding gender identities in an African communitarian world view	2
The is-ought gap and the substitution criterion	2
“Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!” South African hate speech re-evaluated within a poststructuralist perspective	2
Demystifying the African world view – mainstream science to the rescue	2
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	2
Privilege: A critical inquiry	2
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	2
African metaphysics and disabilities	1
Violence as a technological concept	1
Why it is rational to expect the horrible – The future of humanity and climate change	1
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	1
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	1
Afrocentric education’s foundations of Wangari Maathai’s philosophical (ethical) leadership	1
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa	1
Metz’s conception of African communal ethics, global economic practices and decolonisation	1
Afro-communitarianism and the category mistake charge: A reply to critics	1
‘Blessed are the breadmakers … ’: Sociophobia, digital society and the enduring relevance of technological determinism	1

Reviewing the law of non-contradiction: A Marxist reading	1
Igbo values and women	1
Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable	1
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	1
Virtue ethics and situationism: Proposing a path forward with self-sustained virtues and a therapeutic aim	1
Crowd-sourced peer review: wisdom or tyranny of the crowd?	1
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	0
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	0
The priority of preferences in the evolution of minds	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
Spectacles of social activism: pandemic and politicking in the age of digital media	0
Critical pedagogy, scholar activism and epistemic decolonisation	0
Scarcity of resources and distributive justice	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
Frege’s extrinsicism about the normativity of logic	0
Considering African philosophy as a way of life through the practice of philosophical counselling	0
“People aren’t numbers”: A critique of industrial rationality within neoliberal societies	0
Multiculturalism, identity and language: Some critical remarks on Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism	0
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
Priority of duties, substantive human rights, and African communalism	0
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	0
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
The credence of statistical generalisations should not categorically license outright rational belief	0
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	0
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights	0
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	0
Technological bias, illusory impartiality, and the injustice of hermeneutical obstruction	0
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasi-realism	0
The good Dogs are still in the Portico: Making sense of the cynic-stoic moral and sociopolitical continuities	0
Was J. C. Smuts an idealist philosopher?	0
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism	0
Open-textured moral concepts	0
Chieftaincy and traditional authority in modern democratic Ghana	0
Non-human animal ethics and the problem of ontological kinds	0
Correction	0
Okot p’Bitek’s case against traditional African theism	0
Wailing from the heights of velleity: A strong case for antinatalism in these trying times	0
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0

Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
Whose cosmopolitanism is it, anyway?: Western museums, looted artifacts, postcolonial identities and restitution in Africa	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
Two faces of control for moral responsibility	0
Testimony in African epistemology revisited	0
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	0
Laughter in the economic philosophy of Adam Smith	0
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
Self model and selflessness	0
People and power in an African consensual democracy	0
Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure	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
Life, death and commodification: Fear of death in the work of Adam Smith	0
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	0
Contracts and computers	0
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	0
The loss of authentic being in the context of the consumer paradigm	0
Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	0
Existence as first philosophy	0
Whewell’s fundamental antithesis: A lineage of influence	0
Critical phenomenology, Mabogo More, and paracorporeal embodiment	0
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	0
African Metaphysics, Epistemology, and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	0
The distributive justice doctrine of limitarianism	0
On law as poetry: Shelley and Tocqueville	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche	0
The idea of rights in the African thought scheme	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual: disembodied challenges and embodied prospects	0
Interrogating the mistreatment of sacred objects as art(efacts)	0
Editor’s introduction	0
Wonder and empathy in environmental ethics	0
Rethinking the aptness of the analytic method in African philosophy in the light of Hallen and Sodipo’s knowledge-belief distinction	0
Strange ethics, stranger politics: Levinas and Vice on escaping the passivity of shame	0
The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
What is moral fetishism?	0
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement: A phenomenological argument	0
Towards an indigenous and traditional “pedagogy of repair”: an ecological approach to environmental education	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	0
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	0