
Patrick Effiong BenThe University of Manchester · Department of Philosophy
Patrick Effiong Ben
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Introduction
I'm currently an AHRC NWCDTP-funded Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, conducting my doctoral research in Applied Ethics entitled 'Conceptualizing Individual Moral Obligation: A Case for Collectively Insignificant Outcomes'. My research seeks to address the problem of collective impact — inconsequentialism — vis-à-vis climate change and political participation.
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Education
September 2023 - March 2027
January 2022 - September 2023
University of Pretoria
Field of study
- Moral Philosophy
January 2021 - December 2021
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Publications (5)
The main point in this chapter is that Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 targets cannot be achieved without education justice, which entails that every child, young person and adult benefit from quality education and lifelong learning. There is no justification for the injustices arising from poor-quality education and exclusion as they exist to...
I aim to establish in this paper why Aribiah Attoe, like other determinists before him, got it wrong in arguing for the possibility of predeterminism in a materially evolving universe. I will do this by proving two things: I will first establish the inconsistency of the idea of predeterminism in an evolving universe. Then, I argue that the adirecti...
One of the most illogical developments in the history of logic was the racialization of logical thinking as a capacity exclusive to people of a particular region/race—the West/Caucasians. Those who, by chance or choice, find themselves outside Western society were commonly referred to as ‘barbarians’ and residualized as being incapable of logical r...
In this paper, I argue that the cause of morally self-defeating acts at the collective
level is greed and, at the individual level, an unrestrained impulse for pleasure
beyond Innocent Asouzu’s primordial instinct for self-preservation and ignorance.
In investigating why humans act in self-defeating ways, Asouzu came up with two
possible factors re...
Ada Agada is one of the most vocal voices of the Conversational School of Philosophy
(CSP). In Consolationism and Comparative African Philosophy: Beyond Universalism
and Particularism, Agada aims to provide clarity on the philosophical tenets of
Consolationism, his project on system building that is central to the future direction and
development o...