Research Articles (Philosophy)
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The ethics of responsibility: fallibilism, futurity and phronesis
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this article, I deal with the issue of a possible ethics of responsibility (ER) from a philosophical perspective in general, and bioethics in particular. My aim is to explore whether an ER is able to ... -
"Die pot kook oral" : NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2020)Die hoofdoel van hierdie artikel is om moontlike dekoloniale momente in NP van Wyk Louw se denke na te speur. In die eerste plek gee ek 'n kort oorsig oor die kritiese gesprek tussen Louw en Johan Degenaar, met die vraagstuk ... -
When bodies speak differently : putting Judith Butler in conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on nonviolent resistance
(MDPI, 2021)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article puts political philosopher Judith Butler in conversation with Gandhi, on the topic of nonviolent resistance. More particularly, we compare them on a systematic philosophical level. Although ... -
Lessons in our faults : fault lines on race and research ethics
(ASSAf, 2020-09-29)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the publication of the now infamous paper ‘Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Colored South African women’ by Nieuwoudt and colleagues where they claim the cognitive ... -
Die intellektueel as opvoeder
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2019)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie artikel handel oor die rol van die openbare intellektueel in die opvoeding van die samelewing. Die skrywer toon aan hoe vele skrywers meen dat die idee van die openbare intellektueel sy oorsprong ... -
Observing representational practices in art and anthropology : a transdisciplinary approach
(AOSIS, 2010-04-04)It has been suggested that anthropology operates in “liminal spaces” which can be defined as “spaces between disciplines”. This study will explore the space where the fields of art and anthropology meet in order to discover ... -
From dis-enclosure to decolonisation : in dialogue with Nancy and Mbembe on self-determination and the other
(MDPI, 2018-04-13)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What might a sense of decolonisation (not)/be? Or, what comes after the logic of the coloniser? This question is at the centre of many debates in South Africa and extends to all countries worldwide who ... -
Oor die vraag na identiteit in ʼn postapartheidwêreld : ko-skepping as alternatief vir onto-rasselogie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: How does one understand who one is in a post-apartheid world? Put differently: what comes after the logic of apartheid? In this article I take up the question by arguing for a notion of identity as action ... -
They can be choosers : Aid, Levinas and unconditional cash transfers
(Medknow Publications, 2019)In this paper I seek to critically examine UCT’s and CCT’s and consider how a Levinasian ethics might offer normative guidelines to evaluate such aid programmes. Such an analysis will serve to both critique and supplement ... -
Speaker's reference, semantic reference and public reference
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kripke (1977) views Donnellan’s (1966) misdescription cases as cases where semantic reference and speaker’s reference come apart. Such cases, however, are also cases where semantic reference conflicts ... -
Vriendskap teenoor vyandskap in taalbeplanning vir die Universiteit Stellenbosch : die bydrae van Leon de Stadler
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)No abstract available. -
Dare we rethink informed consent?
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Current informed consent practices conform to the informed consent paradigm (ICP). Our intention is finally to promote patient autonomy through the provision of information intended to remove the information (i.e. power) ... -
How do healthcare professionals manage ethical challenges regarding information in healthcare professional/patient clinical interactions? a review of concept- or argument-based articles and case analyses
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-12)Background. This study forms part of an ongoing research project that seeks to enhance the information-management skills of health professionals within the clinical context. Objectives. To review case analyses and reviews ... -
From dis-enclosure to decolonisation : in dialogue with Nancy and Mbembe on self-determination and the other
(MDPI, 2011-04-13)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What might a sense of decolonisation (not)/be? Or, what comes after the logic of the coloniser? This question is at the centre of many debates in South Africa and extends to all countries worldwide who ... -
Harm: The counterfactual comparative account, the omission and pre-emption problems, and well-being
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03)The concept of “harm” is ubiquitous in moral theorising, and yet remains poorly defined. Bradley suggests that the counterfactual comparative account of harm is the most plausible account currently available, but also ... -
The ethics of responsibility : the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2008-06)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics is based on the Other/other. He argues that we are in an asymmetrical relationship with our neighbour that pre-destines us to ethical responsibility even before consciousness or ... -
Complexity, postmodernism and the bioethical dilemma
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2008)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article examines the implications of a postmodern ethics for bioethical problems. Traditional approaches to bioethics, with specific reference to “principlism”, depend on a modernist strategy which ... -
Human rights discourse : friend or foe of African women’s sexual freedoms?
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: From an overview of the current state of the global debate on human rights, the need to strike a balance between the transcendent and immanent dimensions of such rights claims is distilled as an important ... -
On the paradox of the political/transcendence and Eschatology : transimmanence and the promise of love in Jean-Luc Nancy
(MDPI, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The debate on the possibility of re-thinking transcendence at the so-called end or closure of the metaphysical tradition and its relation to the political is situated at the heart of contemporary continental ... -
Price, virtues, principles: how to discern what inspires best practices in water management? a case study about small farmers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
(MDPI, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Improving water practices among small farmers in a water scarce area like the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is a complex task. Despite government attempts to enforce regulations and question the possibility ...