Edward Wilmot Blyden’s contributions to Pan-Africanism have been widely recognised. Scholars have noted that Blyden’s conception of what he called the “African Personality” reflects the influence of h...

This book offers a systematic reconstruction of Paulin Hountondji’s contributions to the debate about the place of modern science on the African continent.

#MeToo and #ShoutYourAbortion: Claiming Standing and Exploding the Private Sphere

Many Victorian philosophers of history attempted to explain what they took to be the evident divergence in the level of civilizational achievement that was attained by different peoples. One promin...

An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically

Cognitations · Episode

AbstractThis chapter focuses on an important problem in the intellectual history of the Global South, namely the relationship between modern scientific kno

In this paper I show that James Africanus Beale Horton launched an internal critique of race science as it developed in the hands of Robert Knox, Carl Vogt, and James Hunt. The latter three held an in...

The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South argues that the claim that human reason—not inherited social institutions—is the ultimate source of ...

THE IDEA

York University has achieved significant progress in the field of philosophy, as revealed in the latest edition of the Philosophical Gourmet Report for the 2024-25 academic year. According to the repo...

Cambridge Core - Legal Philosophy - The Normativity of Law

York University's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has received a generous donation from Department of Philosophy alumnus Benn Barrantes to establish academic prizes recognizing ...