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Some recent honours that UP Philosophy staff have received:

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,...

Some recent honours that UP Philosophy staff have received:

Posted on February 18, 2025

Some recent honours that UP Philosophy staff have received:

#UPGraduation2023: UP student becomes the first African woman from Botswana to get a PhD in philosophy

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.

Top scholars honoured at the University of Pretoria’s annual Academic Achievers’ Awards

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.

Enrichment seminar for postgraduate students

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...

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