African philosophy conference. Univ. of Joburg. March 24-25, 2012

The Philosophy of D A Masolo,

Featuring Self and Community in a Changing World

Programme for 24-25 March 2012

University of Johannesburg Philosophy Department

Humanities Common Room C-Ring 319

  

Convenor: Prof Thaddeus Metz (079 839 2989)

Logistics: Mr Adrian Erasmus (072 237 7816)

Saturday, 24 March 2012

•9.00 – 9.05  Prof T Metz: Welcome

•9.05 – 10.15  Prof D A Masolo, University of Louisville, ‘Freedoms and Ends: Constructing a Pluralist Society in the Twenty-first Century’

•10.20 – 11.30  Prof P A Tabensky, Rhodes Phil, ‘Non-Epistemic Reasons for Believing: The Case of African

Philosophy’

•11.30 – 11.50  Break

•11.50 – 13.00  Mr M Letseka, UNISA Educ, ‘Educating for Ubuntu’

•13.00 – 14.00  Lunch

•14.00 – 15.10  Prof K Horsthemke, Wits Educ, ‘Some Doubts about “Indigenous Knowledge” and the Argument

from Epistemic Injustice’

•15.15 – 16.25  Dr M F Murove, UKZN Ethics, ‘The Ethic of Ukama and Ubuntu Beyond the Indigenization of an

Ethic of Ethnicity’

•19.00 – 22.00 Reservations made at Lucky Bean on 7^th Street in Melville; feel free to come or to strike off on your own.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

•8.30 – 9.35  Prof A Olivier, UFH Phil, ‘On Being an African’

•9.40 – 10.45  Ms M Tshivhase, UJ Phil, ‘Personhood: Social Approval or a Unique Identity?’

•10.45 – 11.00  Break

•11.00 – 12.05  Dr M Koenane, UNISA Phil, ‘Masolo’s Two Forms of Communitarianism’

•12.10 – 13.15  Dr B Matolino, UKZN Phil, ‘An Appraisal of D A Masolo’s Contribution to the Development of

African Communitarianism’

•13.15 – 14.15  Lunch

•14.15 – 15.20  Prof T Metz, UJ Phil, ‘Competing Conceptions of Ethics in African Philosophy’

•15.25 – 16.30  Dr K Behrens, Wits Bioethics, ‘Two Conceptions of Personhood’

  

***Attendance at and participation in the workshop is free of charge, but, in order to arrange suitable catering and transport, people must register beforehand, ideally by 15 March, by writing Mr Adrian Erasmus <adrianerasmus@gmail.com>.***