Posted on February 18, 2025
• Ms Keo Mbebe, Humanities Teaching Excellence Award, 2023 • Dr John Sanni, Research Fellowship from the Centre for Intercultural Studies at Tübingen University, 2024 • Dr Mpho Tshivhase, Gauteng Women Excellence Awards: Game Changer, 2023 • Prof Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam,...
Posted on February 18, 2025
Some recent honours that UP Philosophy staff have received:
Posted on September 18, 2023
Dr Doreen Sesiro, whose research assesses biotechnological enhancements through an African perspective of personhood, has received a PhD in philosophy from UP, becoming the first African woman to receive a PhD in philosophy in Botswana.
Posted on November 04, 2022
“You have honoured yourselves as individuals and you have honoured UP,” said UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Tawana Kupe.
Posted on August 10, 2022
Our visiting Professor, Prof Oluwagbemi-Jacob presented the enrichment seminar for postgraduate students in April and May. The seminar aimed to elucidate the substantive concept of critical thinking that interfaces with both theory and practice in our everyday and professional lives. In the...
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...
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...
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
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Posted on October 05, 2016
The Philosophy Department hosts a colloquium on Aristotle this November.
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