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  • ONTOLOGICAL PERSONALISM AND THE ETHICS OF STEM CELL RESEARCH 
    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 ...
  • AFRICAN WOMANISM AS A RESPONSE TO SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR’S EXISTENTIAL FEMINISM 
    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. ...
  • INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION 
    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 ...
  • A POSTMODERNIST CRITIQUE OF OMOLUWABI IN YORUBA THOUGHT 
    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 ...
  • LEIBNIZ’S MONADOLOGISM AND THE CHALLENGE OF SOCIAL ORDER 
    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. ...
  • ONTOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE PRACTICE OF ABÁNIBÍMO IN YORÙBÁ SOCIETY 
    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 ...
  • TRANSGENDERISM, AGENCY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY 
    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 ...

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