Philosophy

Recent Submissions

  • EKEOCHA, Isoken Erhowo (2021-11)
    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 ...
  • ALOFUN, Grace Olufolake Olufunmike (2021-09)
    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 ...
  • LAWAL, ADEMOLA LUKMAN (2019-11)
    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 ...
  • FASHOLA, JOSEPH OMOKAFE (2021-03)
    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. ...
  • OLATUNJI, Adeyinka Oluseye (2021-03)
    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 ...
  • TAIWO, Olusegun Stephen (2019-10)
    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. ...
  • EDEMA, Philip Akporduado (2015-06)
    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 ...