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Prof Thaddeus Metz publishes new book titled A Relational Moral Theory: African Ethics in and beyond the Continent (Oxford University Press 2021)

Posted on October 21, 2021

A Relational Moral Theory draws on neglected resources from the Global South and especially the African philosophical tradition to provide a new answer to a perennial philosophical question: what do all morally right actions have in common as distinct from wrong ones? Metz points out that the...

Dr Jonathan Chimakonam Okeke has recently returned from a Fellowship at the University of Tübingen’s Centre for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies in Germany and has recently published a book titled African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy (Springer 2021)

Posted on October 21, 2021

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on...

Prof Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem has recently completed work towards formulating a globally applicable ‘Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence’ in her capacity as Chairperson of the Bureau of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group (AHEG) on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Posted on October 21, 2021

Prof Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem has recently completed work towards formulating a globally applicable ‘Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence’ in her capacity as Chairperson of the Bureau of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group (AHEG) on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Dr Mpho Tshivhase has recently taken up a Fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in the United States

Posted on October 21, 2021

Mpho Tshivhase will spend her time at CASBS working on a book project called Uniqueness of Persons and Machines. Her aim is to use the fellowship year to extend her ideas of uniqueness of persons and examine whether such uniqueness is plausible in this age of posthumanism. The uniqueness of...

UP Philosophy's Dr Mpho Tshivhase honoured with Institute of People Management’s CEO Award

Posted on September 17, 2020

University of Pretoria (UP) lecturer and trailblazer Dr Mpho Tshivhase has been awarded the CEO’s Award by the Institute of People Management (IPM) after making history as the first black woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy in South Africa in April 2018.

UP Philosophy professor elected chair of UNESCO expert group

Posted on June 08, 2020

Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem has been elected for the Organisation's expert group crafting global standards on ethics of artificial intelligence.

The First Bilateral Summer School on Foundation Myths successfully concluded at Konstanz University

Posted on August 08, 2017

Within the framework of cooperation between the MA programme "African-European Cultural Relations" at the University of Pretoria and the MA course "Cultural Foundations of Europe" at the University of Konstanz, two consecutive Summer Schools will be held on the topic of "Narratives of Origin and...

Interdisciplinary MA on decolonising knowledge?

Posted on November 03, 2016

To attend an info session please contact [email protected] before 9 November 2016 and provide name, surname and student number.

Aristotle Colloquium 2016

Posted on October 05, 2016

The Philosophy Department hosts a colloquium on Aristotle this November.