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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The post-death question in African metaphysics: Engaging Attoe on death and life’s meaning	19
Editorial	9
Exploring the concept of ubuntu as a liberatory praxis	4
Dreams and dreaming: Stone Age defence mechanisms or by-products of sleep?	3
Euthanasia in human beings versus companion animals	3
Molefe on the value of community for personhood	2
Demystifying the African world view – mainstream science to the rescue	2
Understanding gender identities in an African communitarian world view	2
Phenomenology of contingency: Reflections on More’s African phenomenology	2
Hospitality in Homer’s Odyssey : the duty and virtue of hosts (countries and individuals) and of guests (immigrants and refugees)	2
Would a transhuman be free, determined or both? The metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective	2
Privilege: A critical inquiry	2
“Kill the Boer, kill the farmer!” South African hate speech re-evaluated within a poststructuralist perspective	2
The non-trivial concept of truth in Richard Kirkham’s Theories of truth: a critical introduction	1
Igbo values and women	1
Crowd-sourced peer review: wisdom or tyranny of the crowd?	1
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”	1
Afro-communitarianism and the category mistake charge: A reply to critics	1
Happiness, circumstance, and the environment: Philosophy’s crucial voice in times of environmental crisis	1
On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force	1
Violence as a technological concept	1
Why it is rational to expect the horrible – The future of humanity and climate change	1
Mabogo Percy More as a philosopher of emancipation	1
False hope: A philosophical analysis	1
The tragedy of the commons revisited: Hardin meets Ostrom	1

Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable	1
African metaphysics and disabilities	1
Measuring context-specific collectivism: The Metzian Ubuntu Inventory	1
Metz’s conception of African communal ethics, global economic practices and decolonisation	1
Was J. C. Smuts an idealist philosopher?	0
Virtue ethics and situationism: Proposing a path forward with self-sustained virtues and a therapeutic aim	0
Whewell’s fundamental antithesis: A lineage of influence	0
Technological bias, illusory impartiality, and the injustice of hermeneutical obstruction	0
Decolonising power: A critique of majoritarian democracy in Africa	0
Regrettable experiences and the affirmation of life	0
Wang Yangming on blame	0
Divine violence as non-violent violence: A critique of Judith Butler	0
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa	0
Philosophy for Children (PFC) as an educational practice to promote peace and non-violent coexistence	0
Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs	0
Whose cosmopolitanism is it, anyway?: Western museums, looted artifacts, postcolonial identities and restitution in Africa	0
Frege’s extrinsicism about the normativity of logic	0
Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy	0
The paradox of denial and mystification of machine intelligence in the Chinese room	0
African Metaphysics, Epistemology, and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy	0
What is moral fetishism?	0
Considering African philosophy as a way of life through the practice of philosophical counselling	0
Better see than look at Ramose: A reply to Cees Maris	0
Ecology as oikology – reflections on science and worldview	0
Decolonising philosophical analysis: In defence of “ethnolysis”	0
Knowledge work compulsion: The neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society	0
Gender relations and social justice in Africa: Toward a duty-based approach to gender-based violence	0
Editor’s introduction	0
Intersecting identities: Matolino’s limited communitarianism and its implications for LGBTQ+ in African communities	0
bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling Afrocentric education	0
The relevance of first-generation Critical Theory in the digital era of new social media	0
Shapeability – Aristotle onpoiein-pascheinand the other dimension of being in Heidegger	0
Critical phenomenology, Mabogo More, and paracorporeal embodiment	0
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual: disembodied challenges and embodied prospects	0
No justice, no progress: Contemporary African leadership and society in Plato’s crucible	0
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies	0
Contracts and computers	0
Two faces of control for moral responsibility	0
Open-textured moral concepts	0
Can gangs be a source of ubuntu in prison?	0
The fusion of horizons: The possibility of a genuine ethical dialogue	0
Astral legal justice: Between law’s poetry and justice’s dance	0
‘Blessed are the breadmakers … ’: Sociophobia, digital society and the enduring relevance of technological determinism	0
“The end of ubuntu”: An extension of Matolino’s scepticism	0
Green anthropocentrism: Delineating a new position and how it is enabled by Nussbaum’s capabilities approach	0
Three contexts of climate-induced cultural heritage devastation in Africa: Implications for climate justice	0
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa	0
Multiculturalism, identity and language: Some critical remarks on Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism	0
Are Igbo (African) thoughts on death Heideggerian? Some critical insights	0
“People aren’t numbers”: A critique of industrial rationality within neoliberal societies	0

Existence as first philosophy	0
Life, death and commodification: Fear of death in the work of Adam Smith	0
Spectacles of social activism: pandemic and politicking in the age of digital media	0
Non-binary gender in African personhood?	0
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology	0
Scepticism in African philosophy: A conversation with Jonathan Chimakonam on the notion of “arumaristics”	0
Procreation is intrinsically valuable because it is person producing	0
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies	0
More and the possibility of a non-humanist black existentialism	0
The role of mysticism in cults and religion	0
Introduction: Themes and discourses in African philosophy	0
Towards an indigenous and traditional “pedagogy of repair”: an ecological approach to environmental education	0
An absurdist approach to radical climate activism: Understanding responses to the climate change problem	0
The good Dogs are still in the Portico: Making sense of the cynic-stoic moral and sociopolitical continuities	0
Can impatience be virtuous?	0
Scarcity of resources and distributive justice	0
Guest editor’s introduction: Environmental philosophy in southern Africa	0
Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure	0
The loss of authentic being in the context of the consumer paradigm	0
Feminism and women in African philosophy	0
Authentic freedom as participation in being in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel	0
The fourth ecology: Hikikomori , depressive hedonia and algorithmic ubiquity	0
The credence of statistical generalisations should not categorically license outright rational belief	0
Environmental vulnerability: Disambiguations and possibilities for climate adaptation	0
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability	0
The idea of rights in the African thought scheme	0
Abolish legal marriage: An anti-vulnerability approach to relationship regulation	0
God and suffering in Africa: An exploration in natural theology and philosophy of religion	0
Migration narrative: Towards a possible alternative for Africa in the 21st century	0
Folk psychology without metaphysics: An expressivist approach	0
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement: A phenomenological argument	0
Strange ethics, stranger politics: Levinas and Vice on escaping the passivity of shame	0
Set and setting: The missing factors in Chris Letheby’s psychedelic philosophy	0
Non-human animal ethics and the problem of ontological kinds	0
Self model and selflessness	0
Friedrich Hölderlin and the access to being as ground: A critical examination	0
Correction	0
The biomedical and the relational model of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care: A comparative analysis	0
Wonder and empathy in environmental ethics	0
On the fundamental incompatibility between wildlife conservation and animal ethics	0
Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology	0
The distributive justice doctrine of limitarianism	0
Food production and Afrikan metaphysical thought in the time of polycrisis	0
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism	0
Predeterminism as a category error: Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong	0
Revisiting Shea on ecophilosophy: An interrogation of “dominance” in ecophilosophy	0
Africa, the global order and the politics of aid	0
Epistemic injustice and colonisation	0
The role of feminist environmental ethics in curbing gender-based violence	0
Okot p’Bitek’s case against traditional African theism	0
Developmental consequences of identity-driven African studies	0
The status of oral traditions in the history of philosophy: Methodological considerations	0
The priority of preferences in the evolution of minds	0