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.

HOME  ADDRESS:   177 Elizabeth Street NE, Apt. 4, Atlanta, GA, 30307-2598, USA.                         

TELEPHONES:   (404) 215-2606 (My Direct Line at Morehouse College Department of Philosophy & Religion, with voice mail); (404) 215-2607 (Departmental Administrative Assistant, Mrs. Esquilin, with voice mail).

FAXES:                (404) 507-8676 (office, Morehouse College)

EMAIL:

bhallen@morehouse.edu                                            
mrbhallen@yahoo.com

1.  AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION.

Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, African Philosophy,

Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy and Anthropology, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Studies.

2. COURSES CURRENTLY BEING TAUGHT.

Theory of Knowledge, African and African American Philosophy, Invention of Africa,

Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Introduction to Philosophy.

3.  ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND POSITIONS.

2001-               Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religion, Morehouse College, GA.

2000-               Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.

1997-2000        Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.

1995-               Research Fellow, 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.

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?" (3,000 words), 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 (2^nd edition 2000, 288-307).

1988    "Afro-Brazilian Mosques in West Africa," 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.

     Entry on "Imo (Knowledge)," for the Encyclopedia of African Thought, edited by F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo, Oxford University Press.

5.  CONFERENCES RECENTLY ATTENDED (*with paper presentations).

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.

The African Book Publishing Record (Book Reviews)

African Studies Review (Manuscript Review and Book Reviews)

Canadian Journal of African Studies (Book Reviews)

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, M.A. programme in philosophy.  The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica

d.  PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA)

African Studies Association (ASA)

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
American Philosophical Association (APA)

International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)

International Society for African Philosophy & Studies (ISAPS)
PEN (invited member, 2007- )

e.  AWARDS.

Fulbright West African Research Grant, July-September 2003