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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	7
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	6
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	4
Euthanasia in human beings versus companion animals	4
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
“Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!” South African hate speech re-evaluated within a poststructuralist perspective	2
Happiness, circumstance, and the environment: Philosophy’s crucial voice in times of environmental crisis	2
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	2
Privilege: A critical inquiry	2
The tragedy of the commons revisited: Hardin meets Ostrom	2
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
Demystifying the African world view – mainstream science to the rescue	2
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	1
Crowd-sourced peer review: wisdom or tyranny of the crowd?	1
Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable	1
Reviewing the law of non-contradiction: A Marxist reading	1
Igbo values and women	1
African metaphysics and disabilities	1
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	1
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	1
Violence as a technological concept	1
How to mitigate the horrific consequences of witchcraft belief in Africa	1
Why it is rational to expect the horrible – The future of humanity and climate change	1

Metz’s conception of African communal ethics, global economic practices and decolonisation	1
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	1
Afrocentric education’s foundations of Wangari Maathai’s philosophical (ethical) leadership	1
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 Metaphysics, Epistemology, and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	0
Critical pedagogy, scholar activism and epistemic decolonisation	0
Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure	0
Multiculturalism, identity and language: Some critical remarks on Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism	0
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	0
Frege’s extrinsicism about the normativity of logic	0
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual: disembodied challenges and embodied prospects	0
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	0
Priority of duties, substantive human rights, and African communalism	0
What is moral fetishism?	0
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	0
Revisiting Shea on ecophilosophy: An interrogation of “dominance” in ecophilosophy	0
Interrogating the mistreatment of sacred objects as art(efacts)	0
The loss of authentic being in the context of the consumer paradigm	0
Technological bias, illusory impartiality, and the injustice of hermeneutical obstruction	0
Ecology as oikology – reflections on science and worldview	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
Whewell’s fundamental antithesis: A lineage of influence	0
Recasting the ontological foundation of ubuntu: Addressing the problem of gender-based violence in South Africa	0
Scarcity of resources and distributive justice	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
Feminism and women in African philosophy	0
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
Considering African philosophy as a way of life through the practice of philosophical counselling	0
Whose cosmopolitanism is it, anyway?: Western museums, looted artifacts, postcolonial identities and restitution in Africa	0
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights	0
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	0
“People aren’t numbers”: A critique of industrial rationality within neoliberal societies	0
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	0
Friedrich Hölderlin and the access to being as ground: A critical examination	0
The idea of rights in the African thought scheme	0
Spectacles of social activism: pandemic and politicking in the age of digital media	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	0
Green anthropocentrism: Delineating a new position and how it is enabled by Nussbaum’s capabilities approach	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
Wonder and empathy in environmental ethics	0
Food production and Afrikan metaphysical thought in the time of polycrisis	0
Existence as first philosophy	0

Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	0
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	0
The good Dogs are still in the Portico: Making sense of the cynic-stoic moral and sociopolitical continuities	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	0
Correction	0
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism	0
The priority of preferences in the evolution of minds	0
Contracts and computers	0
An absurdist approach to radical climate activism: Understanding responses to the climate change problem	0
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	0
The credence of statistical generalisations should not categorically license outright rational belief	0
Okot p’Bitek’s case against traditional African theism	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0
Afro-communitarianism and the category mistake charge: A reply to critics	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	0
Environmental vulnerability: Disambiguations and possibilities for climate adaptation	0
Non-human animal ethics and the problem of ontological kinds	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
Wang Yangming on blame	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement: A phenomenological argument	0
Editor’s introduction	0
Strange ethics, stranger politics: Levinas and Vice on escaping the passivity of shame	0
Towards an indigenous and traditional “pedagogy of repair”: an ecological approach to environmental education	0
Self model and selflessness	0
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies	0
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	0
The role of feminist environmental ethics in curbing gender-based violence	0
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	0
Guest editor’s introduction: Environmental philosophy in southern Africa	0
Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
Open-textured moral concepts	0
Was J. C. Smuts an idealist philosopher?	0
Critical phenomenology, Mabogo More, and paracorporeal embodiment	0
The distributive justice doctrine of limitarianism	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	0
Two faces of control for moral responsibility	0
Three contexts of climate-induced cultural heritage devastation in Africa: Implications for climate justice	0
People and power in an African consensual democracy	0
Virtue ethics and situationism: Proposing a path forward with self-sustained virtues and a therapeutic aim	0
The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche	0