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Projects, Collaborations, Researchers
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We are always keen on collaborations with other top international universities. Don’t be shy, and contact us if you are interested in an African University that has the proven skills to deliver projects on time and to specification. We have experts in most main areas of Philosophy: African Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Language. We are running collaborative projects on Epistemic Injustice, Experimental Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Medicine.Check out our department and awesome team and the cool things we do.
Our collaborations across the world
Our grants
PIs: (Pitt), (Rutgers), and (UCLA)
We are the South African team leader of this Templeton-funded project. The project studies diversity in people’s conceptions of understanding, wisdom, and knowledge around the world, and seeks to promote cross-cultural research in cognitive science. It includes teams in eight different regions: Eastern Europe, Ecuador, India, Japan, Morocco, Peru, South Africa, and South Korea.
PIs: (Kent) and Veli Mitova (UJ)
The project grapples with the underexplored connections between epistemic injustice and other normative concepts such as reasons and agency.This is a project.
Philosophy Dictionary for Africa PIs: Hennie L枚tter, Dimpho Maponya, Veli Mitova, (UJ)
The project aims at compiling a Dictionary of Philosophy in several African languages, comprising core African and Western philosophical terms. This is a grant from the 东京热.
Epistemic Injustice, Decolonisation, and Rationality PI: Veli Mitova (UJ)
The project aims at bringing into conversation decolonial theory with two hot topics in analytic epistemology 鈥� epistemic injustice and rationality. This is a grant from the 东京热, which will sponsor six postgraduate students on a research visit to the University of Z眉rich.
Our international research associates
| Name | Area | Role |
| Nottingham Trent University, UK | Metaphysics, bioethics | Senior Research Associate |
| University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Philosophy of medicine | Research Associate |
| Uppsala University, Sweden | Philosophy of biology | Research Associate |
| University of Vienna, Austria | Philosophy of science, social epistemology, language, and mind | Senior Research Associate |
| University of Toronto, Canada | Philosophy of epidemiology | Senior Research Associate |
| Centre for Global non-communicable Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Epidemiology, biostatistics | Senior Research Associate |
| Uppsala University, Sweden | Evolutionary biology | Senior Research Associate |
| Cambridge University, UK | Medicine, evolutionary biology | Senior Research Associate |
| Leiden University, Holland | Epidemiology | Senior Research Associate |
| Kings College London, UK | Global health, human rights | Senior Research Associate |
| Durham University, UK | Philosophy of science | Senior Research Associate |
| Bielefeld University, Germany |
Ethics and philosophy of science | Senior Research Associate |
| Warwick University, UK | Epistemology | Senior Research Associate |
| Georgetown University, US | Bioethics, epistemology, feminism | Senior Research Associate |
| Utrecht University, Holland | Ethics, practical philosophy | Senior Research Associate |
| University of Toronto, Canada | Philosophy of science and medicine | Senior Research Associate |
| University of Cambridge, UK | Philosophy of science | Senior Research Associate |
| Whatcom Community College, US | Life and meaning | Research Associate |
| Tilburg University, Holland | Philosophy of science | Research Associate |
| Paris 8, Paris, and Kingston University, UK | Race and identity | Senior Research Associate |
| The University of the West of Indies at Mona, Jamaica | Aesthetics, epistemology | Senior Research Associate |
| Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe | Ethics | Senior Research Associate |
| Manchester University, UK |
Philosophy of Mind |
Research Associate |
| Alvernia University, Pennsylvania | Algorithmic ecologies and cosmic artisanry | Research Associate |