Aribiah David Attoe

Dr Aribiah David Attoe is a Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand, and is currently a co-recipient of the Global Philosophy of Religion Project grant from the John Templeton Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, and hosted by the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa. He was formerly a postdoc at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa, University of Fort Hare, and earned his PhD in African Philosophy, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has (co)authored several articles books, some of which include; Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity (Palgrave, 2022). New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019), “The passionate Yearning Theory as a Theory of Meaning in Life,” Philosophia (2022), “A Systematic Account of African Conceptions of the Meaning of/in Life,” South African Journal of Philosophy (2020) and “An Essay Concerning the Foundational Myth of Ethnophilosophy,” Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions (2016). He also guest-edited the first ever book-length literature/special issue on “African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life”, published by the South African Journal of Philosophy. He is also a member of the prestigious Conversational School of Philosophy. His major research areas of interest span across: African metaphysics, ethics and African Conceptions of Meaning, and he has given various talks on areas related to his research areas at different international forums and conferences.