Edwin Etieyibo

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Edwin Ekwevukugbe Etieyibo is a Nigerian-Canadian (Afro-Canadian)

philosopher dedicated to advancing African philosophy. He is an advocate of the validity of ethnophilosophy. This view has been criticised by a number of scholars and philosophers who argue that traditional African philosophy and ethnophilosophy are not genuine philosophy.[1][2] Etieyibo is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.[3]
He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta.[4]

Early life and education

Etieyibo was born in Adeje,

Sapele
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He studied in Nigeria, Canada and South Africa. He got admission to the University of Lagos, where he graduated in 1998 with a BA (first class honours) in philosophy (with minor in English and English Literature), an MA in 2001 (cum laude) in philosophy, and an MBA in 2015 (with a research focus on management, work ethics, and motivational theories).

In 2009, Etieyibo received his PhD from the University of Alberta working on the dissertation entitled, David Gauthier’s Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession. His dissertation, under the supervision of Wesley Cooper, Adam Morton and externally examined by Jan Narveson, cuts across a number of disciplines including ethics, political philosophy, economics and decision theory and presents a critical examination of Gauthier’s account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility.

In 2013, Etieyibo enrolled for an LLB degree at the University of South Africa and graduated in 2017, writing his portfolio/research essay on law, education and rights, with the title: “School Governing Bodies, Education Departments, and the Constitutionally Guaranteed Access to Education in South Africa.”

Work and research

Etieyibo sees philosophy as liberatory both in form and content. He is among scholars and philosophers promulgating the notion of Africanising philosophy and the validation of ethnophilosophy. Ethnophilosophy has been criticized and defended by some scholars in various literature discourse and critiques.

Paulin Hountondji
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Etieyibo was a member of the African Philosophy Society’s international steering committee for the third biennial African Philosophy World Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2019.[8]

In 2018, he presented one of the keynote addresses at the biennial conference of the International Social Ontology Society in Boston, Massachusetts.[9]

He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy, the Secretary/Treasurer of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies and the Secretary of the African Philosophy Society — an organization for which he is a co-founder.[10] He has been named the Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa (AROCSA) champion of the week.[11]

His interests include, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, social and global justice, philosophy for children,

Descartes, rights and disabilities. This has been the focus of his research works in impacting and contributions to Africanising philosophy and the philosophy curriculum in ways that respond to different traditions of philosophy, especially the African philosophical traditions (also referred to as African philosophy) consistent with the demands of intercultural philosophy.[12][13][14]

He is the co-author (with Odirin Omiegbe) of the monograph, Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation published by Hamilton Books in 2017.

Etieyibo has written and co-authored several books as well as published in journal articles covering a number of diverse, interrelated areas such as: ethics, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, social and global justice, culture, rights and disabilities, social contract theories/and history of, African philosophy, African socio-political economy, epistemology, and Descartes.

Selected publications

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

References

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  3. ^ "[email protected] – Wits University". www.wits.ac.za. Archived from the original on 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  4. ^ "If you are serious about decolonising Africa, don't study abroad | Thought Leader". 16 May 2016. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  5. doi:10.25159/2413-3086/4158. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help
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  6. S2CID 171685689. Archived
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  8. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329424126_Call_for_Papers_The_Third_Biennial_African_Philosophy_World_Conference_Building_Africa's_Future_on_African_Philosophy Archived 2022-02-26 at the Wayback Machine https://i1.rgstatic.net/publication/329424126_Call_for_Papers_The_Third_Biennial_African_Philosophy_World_Conference_Building_Africa's_Future_on_African_Philosophy/links/5c07dc78a6fdcc494fdb469a/largepreview.png Archived 2020-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Social Ontology 2018, The 11th Biennial Collective Intentionality Conference, August 22–25, 2018, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA <https://isosonline.org/Social-Ontology-2018 Archived 2019-12-20 at the Wayback Machine>
  10. ^ "Executive -". Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  11. ^ https://arocsa.org/ Archived 2021-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. https://twitter.com/arocsafrica/status/1394939841863897090 Archived 2021-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ “Africanizing the Philosophy Curricula in Universities in Africa”, Art Africa Digital (Becoming African) November, 2015
  13. ^ Ebrahim, Shaazia (March 6, 2017). "Xenophobia in South Africa shows a disconnect with ubuntu". Archived from the original on February 18, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  14. ^ Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, London and New York: Routledge
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  16. ISBN 978-3-319-70225-4. Archived
    from the original on December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2019 – via www.palgrave.com.
  17. ^ Chimakonam, Jonathan O.; Etieyibo, Edwin (February 28, 2018). "Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era [Hardback]". Archived from the original on December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2019 – via vernonpress.com. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ^ "Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum". CRC Press. Archived from the original on 2020-08-03. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
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