CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:
Barry Hallen
PROFESSIONAL ADDRESSES: (1) Department of Philosophy
& Religion, Sale Hall, Morehouse College, 830 Westview Drive SW, Atlanta, GA, 30314-3773, USA; (2) W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
for African and African American Research, Harvard University, 104 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA; (2) W. E.
B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, 104 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
HOME ADDRESS: 177 Elizabeth
Street NE, Apt. 4, Atlanta, GA, 30307-2598, USA.
TELEPHONES: (404) 681-5371
(My Direct Line at Morehouse College Department of Philosophy & Religion, with voice mail); (404) 215-2607 (Departmental
Administrative Assistant, Ms. Esquilin, with voice mail).
FAXES:
(404) 507-8676 (office, Morehouse College); (404) 521-2942 (home)
EMAIL:
bhallen@morehouse.edu
hallen@fas.harvard.edu
mrbhallen@yahoo.com
1. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION.
Epistemology, African & African American Philosophy,
Contemporary Philosophy, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary
Studies.
2. COURSES CURRENTLY BEING
TAUGHT.
Theory of Knowledge,
African & African American Philosophy, The Invention of Africa,
Contemporary Philosophy, Black Athena, Introduction to Philosophy.
3. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND POSITIONS.
2008-
Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Atlant, GA.
2001-2008
Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religion, Morehouse College, GA.
2000-2001 Professor
of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
1997-2000
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
1995- Resident
Research Fellow, Non-Resident Research Fellow, or Associate, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American
Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1989-1998 Project
Director, "SOUTHERN CROSSROADS: Routes of Commerce and Culture Through West Africa and the Early Sudan," an Associated
Project of UNESCO'S INTEGRAL STUDY OF THE SILK ROADS: ROADS OF DIALOGUE.
1984-1988
Director, Yoruba (Thought) Research Project, Phase III, Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly University of Ife), Ile-Ife,
NIGERIA.
1983-1988
Reader in Philosophy, University of Ife, Ile‑Ife, NIGERIA.
1985-1986
Acting Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Ife, NIGERIA.
1980-1984 Director,
Yoruba (Thought) Research Project, Phase II, University of Ife, NIGERIA.
1978-1983 Senior Lecturer in
Philosophy, University of Ife, NIGERIA.
1976-1980 Director,
Yoruba (Thought) Research Project, Phase I, University of Ife, NIGERIA.
1975-1978 Lecturer I, University
of Ife, NIGERIA.
1974-1975 Acting
Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos, NIGERIA.
1974
Proficiency Certificate in Yoruba Language, University of Lagos, NIGERIA
1970-1975 Lecturer II, University
of Lagos, NIGERIA.
1970 Ph.D.
in Philosophy, Boston University, USA.
1968-1969
Borden Parker Bowne Fellow in Philosophy, Boston University, MA.
1967-1968
Chief Graduate Assistant, Boston University, MA.
1968 M.A.
in Philosophy, Boston University, MA.
1965-1967
Graduate Assistant, Boston University, MA.
1965-1968
Teaching Assistant, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
1963
B.A. in Philosophy, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
4. PUBLICATIONS.
a. IN PRESS / PUBLISHED / Ph.D.
2010 (forthcoming April) Entry on "Imo (Knowledge)," for the
Encyclopedia of African Thought, edited by F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo, Oxford University
Press.
2010 (forthcoming April) Entry
on "J. Olubi Sodipo," for the Encyclopedia of African Thought, edited
by F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo, Oxford University Press.
2009 A Short History of African Philosophy, 2nd rev.
ed. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
2008 "Yoruba Moral Epistemology
as the Basis for a Cross-Cultural Ethics," in Orisa Devotion as a World Religion: Global Yoruba
Religious Culture, edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 222-229.
2006 "Postcript: The Philosophical Humanism of J. Olubi Sodipo," in The Humanities,
Nationalism, and Democracy, edited by Sola Akinrinnade, Dipo Fashina, and David O. Ogunbile, Ile-Ife, Nigeria:
Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 346-362.
2006
"Review of Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa," in
African Studies Review 49/3 (December), 175-176.
2006 African
Philosophy: The Analytic Approach, Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey.
2005 "Heidegger, Hermeneutics and African Philosophy," in Africa
e Mediterraneo, edited by Ivan Bargna, Bologna, Italy (December), 46-53.
2005 "African Ethics?", Chapter 41 in A
Companion to Religious Ethics, edited by W. Schweiker, Malden, Massachusetts and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing,
406-412.
2004 "Cosmology: African
Cosmologies" (3,200 words), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., edited by Lindsay Jones,
MacMillan Reference, USA.
2004 "Contemporary
Anglophone Philosophy," Chapter 6 in A Companion to African Philosophy, edited by
Kwasi Wiredu, Malden, Massachusetts and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing, 99-148.
2004 "Yoruba Moral Epistemology," Chapter 21 in A Companion
to African Philosophy, edited by Kwasi Wiredu, Malden, Massachusetts and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing, 296-303.
2003 "Not a House Divided," in Journal
On African Philosophy 2, 1-15 (http://www.africanphilosophy.com/issue2/hallen.html).
2003 "Review of Helen Verran's Science and an
African Logic" in African Studies Review 45/3 (December), 160-162.
2003 "Ethical Knowledge in an African Philosophy" (2,500
words), for the Journal of the Florida Philosophical Review III/1 (Summer) Florida Philosophical
Association, edited by Nancy Stanlick and Shelly Park, 6-13.
2002
"Review of Helen Verran's Science and an African Logic," in The International Journal
of African Historical Studies 35/1 (Fall), 188-189.
2002. "Modes of Thought, Ordinary Language, and Cognitive Diversity,"
in Perspectives in African Philosophy, edited by Claude Sumner and Samuel Wolde Yohannes, Addis
Ababa, Addis Ababa University Press, 214-222.
2002
A Short History of African Philosophy, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
2002 "Review of Elias Bongmba's African Witchcraft and Otherness:
A Philosophical and Theological Critique of Intersubjective Relations," in Canadian Journal
of African Studies, 36/1, 139-140.
2001
"‘Witches' as Superior Intellects: Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition," for Dialogues
of Witchcraft: Anthropology, Philosophy, and the Possibilities of Discovery, edited by Diane Ciekawy and George
C. Bond, Athens, Ohio University Press, 80-100.
2000
"Review Essay: African Philosophy in a New Key," African Studies Review 43/3
(December), 131-134.
2000 The
Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse About Values in Yoruba Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University
Press.
2000 "Variations
on a Theme: Ritual, Performance, Intellect," for Insight and Artistry: A Cross-Cultural Study of
Art and Divination in Central and West Africa, edited by John Pemberton, , Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
D.C., 168-174.
1999 "Review
of The Art of Thinking: Chats on Logic," in The African Book Publishing Record.
1999 "‘Handsome Is as Handsome Does': Interrelations
of the Epistemic, the Moral, and the Aesthetic in an African Culture," Invited Panel on Intercultural Perspectives
in Aesthetics, The Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. IV, "Philosophies
of Religion, Art, and Creativity," Kevin Stoehr (ed.). Bowling Green State University, KY: Philosophical Documentation
Center, 187-96.
1998 "Academic
Philosophy and African Intellectual Liberation," African Philosophy 11/2 (November),
93-97.
1998 Entry
on "African Aesthetics" (4,000 words) for the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited
by Michael Kelly, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1998
Entry on "Aesthetics, African" (3,000 words) for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
edited by E. Craig and K.A. Appiah, London: Routledge.
1998
Entry on "Yoruba Epistemology" (1,000 words) for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
edited by E. Craig and K.A. Appiah, London: Routledge.
1998
"Moral Epistemology: When Propositions Come Out of Mouths," International Philosophical
Quarterly 38/2 (June), 187-204.
1997
"Indeterminacy, Ethnophilosophy, Linguistic Philosophy, African Philosophy," a republication of
my 1994 paper in the Special Tenth Anniversary Issue of Selected Papers in SAPINA
(Society for African Philosophy in North America) Bulletin 10/2, 91-108.
1997 "Reflections on Rorty,"
a republication of my 1994 paper in the Special Tenth Anniversary Issue of Selected Papers in SAPINA
(Society for African Philosophy in North America) Bulletin 10/2, 429-433.
1997 Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft:
Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy (coauthored with J. Olubi Sodipo; a revised edition of the 1986 text,
incorporating my 1995 Philosophy paper and a new "Foreword"
by W. V. O. Quine), Stanford University Press, USA.
1997
"African Meanings, Western Words," African Studies Review 40/1 (April),
The African Studies Association (ASA), 1-11.
1997
"What's It Mean?: ‘Analytic' African Philosophy," in Quest: Philosophical
Discussions X/2 (December), 66-77.
1996
"The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse About Values in Yoruba Culture," in SAPINA
(Society for African Philosophy in North America) Bulletin IX/3, 43-168 (an early working-draft
of my 2000 book published by Indiana University Press).
1996
"Does It Matter Whether Linguistic Philosophy Intersects Ethnophilosophy?" in "APA
(American Philosophical Association) Newsletter on Philosophy and International Cooperation" in APA
Newsletters 96/1 (Fall), 136-140.
1996
"Analytic Philosophy and Traditional Thought: A Critique of Robin Horton," for African
Philosophy: A Classical Approach, edited by P. English and K. M. Kalumba, Prentice Hall, USA, 216-228.
1995 "'Philosophy' Doesn't Translate:
Richard Rorty and Multiculturalism, Parts I & II," in SAPINA (Society for African
Philosophy in North America) Bulletin VIII/3 (July-December), 1-42.
1995 "'My Mercedes Has Four Legs!' 'Traditional'
as an Attribute of African Equestrian 'Culture'," (Illustrations by Carla de Benedetti), in Horsemen
of Africa: History, Iconography, Symbolism, ed. by G. Pezzoli, Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, Milan, Italy,
49-64.
1995 "Indeterminacy,
Ethnophilosophy, Linguistic Philosophy, African Philosophy," Philosophy 70, No. 273
(July), The Royal Institute of Philosophy, UK, 377‑393.
1995
"Is the 'Aje' Really a 'Witch'?," in African Philosophy: Selected Readings,
ed. by Albert G. Mosley, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA (a selection from Chapter 3 of my 1986 book, coauthored with J. Olubi
Sodipo).
1995 "Some
Observations About Philosophy, Postmodernism, and Art in African Studies," The African Studies Review
38/1 (April), The African Studies Association (ASA), USA, 69-80.
1994 "Reflections on Rorty," in the SAPINA
(Society for African Philosophy in North America) Bulletin V/2 (July-December), 11-13.
1994 "Indeterminacy, Ethnophilosophy,
Linguistic Philosophy, African Philosophy," in the SAPINA (Society for African Philosophy
in North America) Bulletin V/2 (July‑December), 20-36 (an earlier conference-version of the
paper published in the journal Philosophy in 1995).
1994 "The House of the 'Inu': Keys to the Structure
of a Yoruba Theory of the 'Self'" (coauthored with J. Olubi Sodipo), in Quest: Philosophical Discussions
VIII/1 (June), 3-23 (a publication of the 1991 paper originally accepted by the journal Second Order
after publication was suspended due to financial constraints).
1993
"Secrecy ('Awo') and Objectivity in the Methodology and Literature of Ifa Divination" (coauthored
with 'Wande Abimbola), in SECRECY: African Art that Conceals and Reveals (ed. by M. Nooter), The
Museum for African Art, New York City, USA, 212-221.
(1991
"The House of the ‘Inu' . . .," Second Order; see entry under 1994 above.)
1989 "'Eniyan': A Critical
Analysis of the Yoruba Concept of Person," Chapter 14, in The Substance of African Philosophy
(ed. C.S. Momoh), African Philosophy Projects' Publications, Auchi, Nigeria, 328-354 (2nd edition 2000, 288-307).
1988 "Afro-Brazilian Mosques in
West Africa" (coauthored with Carla De Benedetti), Mimar: Architecture in Development
29: 16-23.
1986 Knowledge,
Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy (coauthored with J. Olubi Sodipo),
Ethnographica Publishers Ltd., London, UK.
1986
"A Comparison of the Western 'Witch' with the Yoruba 'Aje': Spiritual Powers or Personality Types?"
(coauthored with J.Olubi. Sodipo), Ife: Annals of the Institute of Cultural Studies 1, 1 -7.
1985 "Review of African Philosophy:
Myth or Reality (by L. Apostel and E. Story)," Journal of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
15/1 (March), 109-111.
1981
"The Open Texture of Oral Tradition," Theoria to Theory XIV/3, 327-332.
1979 "The Art Historian as Conceptual
Analyst," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism XXXVII/3, 303-313.
1977 "Robin Horton on Critical
Philosophy and Traditional Thought," Second Order 6/1, 81-92.
1977 "Comment: Robert Lithown
on Traditional Thought," Theoria to Theory IX/4, 213-215.
1976 "Phenomenology and the Exposition
of African Traditional Thought," Second Order 5/2, 45 -65 (also published in African
Philosophy, ed. Claude Sumner, Chamber Printing House, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1980/1997, 56 80).
1975 "A Philosopher's Approach
to Traditional Culture," Theoria to Theory IX/4, 259-272.
1971 "Review of 'Prospectus' for
Encyclopedia of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning" (coauthored with P. Hallen), Journal
of the Historical Society of Nigeria 5/4 (June), 585-586.
1970 (Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis:) Boldness and Caution in the
Methodology and Social Philosophy of Karl Popper (Supervisors: Professors Michael Martin and Robert Cohen, Boston
University).
b.
SUBMITTED.
"African Philosophy,"
for Oxford Handbook on World Philosophy, edited by Jay I. Garfield, Oxford University Press.
c. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
OR SOLICITED.
"Customs and
Moral Principles in the Context of African Communalism: Comments on Wiredu," for proposed anthology entitled
Festschrift on the Philosophy of Kwasi Wiredu, edited by D. Masolo.
"Ifa: Sixteen Odu, Sixteen Questions," for proposed
anthology entitled Sacred Knowledge, Sacred Power and Performance: Ifa Divination in West Africa and the African
Diaspora, edited by J. K. Olupona.
5. CONFERENCES RECENTLY ATTENDED (*with paper presentations).
American Philosophical
Association, Annual Meeting, New York City, December 27-30, 2009.
American Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. December 27-30, 2008.
*Reason, Culture, Humanism: The Philosophy
of Kwasi Wiredu, University of Louisville, Kentucky, October 31-November 1, 2008.
*American Philosophical
Association (Central Division), Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 16-19, 2008.
*"Political Unity and
Sustainable Development in Africa: The Intellectual Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah," XIVth Annual Conference of the International
Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS)," The University of Cape Coast, Ghana, March 31-April 4, 2008.
*"Sacred Knowledge, Sacred Power and Performance: Ifa Divination in West Africa and the African Diaspora,"
Harvard University, March 14-16, 2008.
American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 2006.
*"Human Rights: Africana and Multi-Cultural Perspectives," 12th Annual Conference of ISAPS (International Society
for African Philosophy and Studies), The University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, April 20-23, 2006.
African Studies
Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 17-20, 2005.
Democracy: Challenges for the 21st Century,@ International Political Science Association
Research Committee on Political Philosophy, Atlanta, Georgia, April 29-30, 2005.
*Special Seminar on African Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, March 24, 2005.
*"Philosophy, Ideology, and Civil Society," XIth ISAPS
and SAPINA Annual Conference of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies, Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu,
Nigeria, March 10-12, 2005.
*The Humanities, Nationalism and
Democracy: International Conference in Honour of the Late J. Olubi Sodipo, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, March
7-10, 2005 (Keynote Speaker).
*African Studies Association (ASA)
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11-14, 2004.
*International Society for African Philosophy & Studies (ISAPS) and Society for
African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA) 10th Annual Conference, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, April 2-4, 2004.
14th Triennial Symposium on African Art (ACASA), Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, March 31-April 1, 2004.
*Princeton
Workshop in the History of Science: Science Across Cultures, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, February 13, 2004.
African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, October 30-November 2, 2003.
BLISS
(Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South Since the Civil War) Symposium, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, April 9-10,
2003 (Session Chair).
African Studies Association (ASA) Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 5-8, 2002.
*48th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida, November 22-23, 2002.
*Distinguished Speaker, Africa
Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 13, 2002.
*Keynote
Speaker, 8th Annual Conference for the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies, The College of Wooster, Wooster,
Ohio, March 8-10, 2002.
African Studies Association (ASA) Annual
Meeting, Houston, Texas, November 15-18, 2001.
13th ACASA (Arts
Council of the African Studies Association) Triennial, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, April 2001.
*Conference on African Philosophy: The Next Fifty Years, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota,
April 2000.
6. EDITORIAL
APPOINTMENTS, ELECTED OFFICES, INVITED CONSULTANCIES, MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND AWARDS.
a. EDITORIAL.
Polylog: E-Forum
(http://www.polylog.org) for Intercultural Philosophizing (Advisory Board)
The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy (Editorial Board)
b. ELECTED OFFICES.
President
Ex-Officio, International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), 2007-2010.
President, International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), 2004-2006
General Secretary, Society for African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA), 2004-2006
c. INVITED CONSULTANCIES
Member, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009 Peer Review Committees,
Fulbright Visiting Scholars, Fulbright African Research Scholar Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, United
States Department of State, Washington, D.C.
External
Examiner, 2004-, M.A. programme in philosophy. The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
d. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
African Studies Association
(ASA)
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
American Philosophical Association (APA)
International Society for African Philosophy & Studies (ISAPS)
PEN (invited member, 2007- )
e. AWARDS.
Fulbright West African Research Grant, July-September 2003
