Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Title
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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 ... -
"When everything starts to flow" : Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2015)A more explicit, comprehensive and sustained dialogue between the African philosophical and western feminist traditions would yield insights at once rich and useful to both traditions, and beyond. Here, I place the work ... -
Why Peirce matters : the symbol in Deacon’s symbolic species
(Elsevier Ltd, 2007)In ‘‘Why brains matter: an integrational perspective on The Symbolic Species’’ Cowley (2002) [Language Sciences 24, 73–95] suggests that Deacon pictures brains as being able to process words qua tokens, which he identifies ... -
Why the world is still unequal : on the apparatuses of justification and interpassivity
(SUNMeDIA, 2014-11)Inequality offends our moral sensibilities, yet there is no urgency to address it. This article explains the lack of an adequate response to inequality by outlining two apparatuses conspiring to perpetuate inequality – ... -
Zimitri Erasmus (2017) race otherwise : forging a new humanism for South Africa
(Wits University Press, 2020)Race Otherwise is a contemporary exploration of race and identity in South Africa that attempts to provide us with a new form of humanism that may help us overcome or at least challenge and disrupt racialisation. This book ...
