Edwin E Etieyibo

Edwin E. Etieyibo (PhD) is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where he has been since 2012. Previously, he taught at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, Canada before moving to the University of the Witwatersrand in 2012. His PhD dissertation was on "David Gauthier's Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession," which presents a critical examination of Gauthier's account of morality that links rationality with preferences...See more

Edwin E. Etieyibo (PhD) is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where he has been since 2012. Previously, he taught at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, Canada before moving to the University of the Witwatersrand in 2012. His PhD dissertation was on "David Gauthier's Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession," which presents a critical examination of Gauthier's account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility. He specializes and have interest in ethics, social and political philosophy, African philosophy, social contract theories/and history of, history of philosophy, epistemology, early modern philosophy, Descartes, philosophy of law, applied ethics, African socio-political economy, philosophy of education and with children. He is the co-author of Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation (2017, Hamilton Books), guest editor of the South African Journal of Philosophy special issue on "Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa," and editor of several books: Perspectives in Social Contract Theory (2018, CRVP); Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum (2018, Routledge); and Methods, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy (2018, Palgrave Macmillan). He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy. See less