An explanation of the Yoruba understanding of rationality, its immediate connection to practical ethics, and its roots in oral Yoruba traditions.
Feminism, Philosophy, and Culture in Africa
African feminisms emerge out of a heterogeneous context. Because Africa’s globalization has been ongoing for centuries now, African women pay a steep price for it, all while the patriarchal order…
Torturers and the Tortured
Abstract: Patrick Lenta and Jessica Wolfendale have written two very thoughtful discussions on torture. A central question that arises in responding to these essays in terms of my recent book,…
How Truth Governs Belief
Abstract: Why, when asking oneself whether to believe that p, must one immediately recognize that this question is settled by, and only by, answering the question whether p is true?…
Persistence Through Time
Introduction: Things change: objects come into existence, last for a while, go out of existence, move through space, change their parts, change their qualities, change in their relations to things….
Folk psychology and cognitive architecture
Abstract: It has recently been argued that the success of the connectionist program in cognitive science would threaten folk psychology. I articulate and defend a “minimalist” construal of folk psychology…
On the metaphysics of quantum mechanics
Abstract: Many solutions have been proposed for solving the problem of macroscopic superpositions of wave function ontology. A possible solution is to assume that, while the wave function provides the…
The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire
Abstract: The puzzle of imaginative desire arises from the difficulty of accounting for the surprising behaviour of desire in imaginative activities such as our engagement with fiction and our games…
Distorted Reflection
Abstract: Diachronic Dutch book arguments seem to support both conditionalization and Bas van Fraassen’s Reflection principle. But the Reflection principle is vulnerable to numerous counterexamples. This essay addresses two questions:…
Mental disorder and the value(s) of ‘autonomy’
…as a capacity for self-determination that ought to be protected from interference by a corresponding right to self-determination is too shallow to ground a coherent course of action in terms…