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Naturalised modal epistemology and quasirealism
(South African Journal of Philosophy,, 2021)
Given quasi-realism, the claim is that any attempt to naturalise modal epistemology would leave out absolute necessity. The reason, according to Simon Blackburn, is that we cannot offer an empirical psychological explanation ...
A social ontology of “maximal” persons
(Wiley, 2021)
In this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward
by Kwame Gyekye (1992) and Bernard Matolino (2014)
denying Menkiti’s twin propositions that persons differ
ontologically from human beings and that human attitudes, ...
Thought experiments and personal identity in Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
African perspectives on personhood and personal identity and their
relation to those of the West have become far more central in mainstream
Western discussion than they once were. Not only are African traditional views
with ...
On and beyond artifacts in moral relations: accounting for power and violence in Coeckelbergh’s social relationism
(Springer, 2021)
The ubiquity of technology in our lives and its culmination in artifcial intelligence raises questions about its role in our moral
considerations. In this paper, we address a moral concern in relation to technological ...
Evaluation of source rock potential and hydrocarbon composition of oil sand and associated clay deposits from the Eastern Dahomey Basin, Nigeria
(ScienceDirect, 2019)
Oil sands are classified as unconventional hydrocarbon plays and are being exploited to augment global energy needs. Nigeria has the largest conventional oil industry in Africa, but is also endowed with abundant oil sand ...
On and beyond artifacts in moral relations: accounting for power and violence in Coeckelbergh’s social relationism
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023)
The ubiquity of technology in our lives and its culmination in artifcial intelligence raises questions about its role in our moral considerations. In this paper, we address a moral concern in relation to technological ...