Transgenderism, a condition in which a person’s gender identity is different from the person’s
biological sex at birth, has become a source of philosophical discourse. Previous studies on
transgenderism have approached ...
Abánibímọ, the Yoruba practice of surrogacy, is an alternative procreative method informed by family exigencies in Yoruba culture. Previous studies, which are largely Western, have focused mainly on the legality of ...
Indigenous knowledge system, a strand of social epistemology, emphasises a socio-cultural dimension to the acquisition and justification of human knowledge. Previous studies have focused on traditional epistemology which ...
Monadologism, a philosophical idea depicting a non-communicative, self-actuating system of
windowless, individualistic and deterministic beings, has implications for understanding the
challenge of social order. ...
Postmodernism, a philosophical position that advocates the relativity of truth, knowledge,
values and morality, is opposed to any essentialist cultural or grand narrative like
omolúwàbí in Yorùbá culture. Many scholarly ...
Simone de Beauvoir’s Existential Feminism, the view that there is an oppositional logic in relationship between the genders, undermines African Womanism, which promotes a complementarity relationship between male and female. ...
Embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), which involves the use of human embryo for research purposes, has generated serious debate over the status of the human embryo in recent times. Earlier studies by the pro-choice and ...