CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:
Barry Hallen
PROFESSIONAL ADDRESSES: (1) Department of Philosophy and Religion,
Sale Hall, Morehouse College, 830 Westview Drive S.W., Atlanta, GA 30314-3773; (2) W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, 104 Mount
Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138-5019.
HOME ADDRESS:
177 Elizabeth Street N.E., Apt. 4, Atlanta, GA 30307.
TELEPHONES: (1)
(404) 681-5371 (My Direct Line at Morehouse College Department of Philosophy & Religion, with voice mail); (2)
(404) 215-2607 (Departmental
Administrative Assistant, with voice mail).
FAXES:
(404) 507-8676 (office,
Morehouse College); (404) 521-2942 (home)
EMAIL:
bhallen@morehouse.edu
mrbhallen@yahoo.com
PLACE OF BIRTH:
USA
1. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION.
Theory of Knowledge, Africana Philosophy and Aesthetics,Philosophy and Anthropology, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Studies.
2. COURSES CURRENTLY BEING TAUGHT.
Theory of Knowledge, African and African American Philosophy, The
Invention of Africa, Black Athena,
Contemporary
Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Introduction to Philosophy.
3. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND POSITIONS.
2008- Professor
of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
2001-2008 Chair, Department of Philosophy
& Religion, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
2000-2001 Professor of Philosophy (tenured), Department of Philosophy &
Religion, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
1997-2000 Visiting Professor of Philosophy,
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
1995- Resident
Fellow, Non-Resident Fellow, or Associate, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
1989-1998 Director, "Southern Crossroads: Routes of Commer and Culture
Through West Africa and the Early Sudan," an Associated Project of the United Nation's Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization's (UNESCO) 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.
2011
(forthcoming February 2011) “African Philosophy,” for the Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy,
edited by Stephen Ferguson, Oxford University Press, pp. 471-481.
2010 “‘Ethnophilosophy’ Redefined?” in Thought and Practice: A Journal of the
Philosophical Association of Kenya (PAK), Vol. 2, No. 1 n.s.
(June), Department of Philosophy, University of Nairobi, Kenya,p pp. 73-85.
2010 Entry on “Imo
(Knowledge),” for the Encyclopedia of African Thought, edited by F. Abiola Irele and
Biodun Jeyifo, Oxford University Press, Vol. I, pp. 481-483.
2010 Entry on “J.
Olubi Sodipo” for the Encyclopedia of African Thought, edited by F. Abiola Irele and
Biodun Jeyifo, Oxford University Press, Vol. II, pp. 349-350.
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 World Religion: The Globalization of Yoruba Religious Culture, edited
by Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 222-229.
2006 Postscript:
“The Philosophical Humanism of J. Olubi Sodipo,” in The Humanities,
Nationalism and Democracy, edited by Sola Akinrinade, Dipo Fashina, and David O. Ogungbile, Ile-Ife, Nigeria:
Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 346-362.
2006 “Review of Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa,
by Sanya Osha, 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 African Philosophy: A Survey,” 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 “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,”
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 (republished in African Philosophy,
ed. Claude Sumner, Chamber Printing House, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1980/1997, 56 80; also republished in Readings
in African Philosophy, ed. Sophie B. Oluwole. Lagos, Nigeria: Mass-tech Publishers).
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.
“More Than the Sum of Its Parts: ‘Holism’ in the Philosophy of E.
O. Osigwe Anyiam Osigwe,” Keynote Address, First International Development Conference, sponsored by the Anyiam-Osigwe
Foundation, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, November 20-22, 2010.
c.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION OR SOLICITED.
“Customs and Moral Principles in the Context of African Communalsim: Comments on Wiredu,” forthcoming
in a proposed
Festschrift on the Philosophy of Kwasi Wiredu, edited by D. Masolo.
“Ifa:
Sixteen Odu, Sixteen Questions,” forthcoming in a proposed anthology entitled Sacred Knowledge, Sacred
Power and Performance:
Ifa Divination
in West Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by J. K. Olupona and Rowland Abiodun.
5. CONFERENCES RECENTLY ATTENDED (*with paper
presentations).
*First International Development Conference, sponsored by the Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation,
University of Ibadan, Nigeria, November 20-22, 2010.
American Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, New
York City, December 27-30, 2009.
*Reason, Culture, Humanism: The Philosophy of Kwasi Wiredu, University of Louisville, Kentucky,
October 31-November 1, 2008.
*American Philosophical Association, 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, Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., December 27-30, 2006.
*“Human Rights: Africana and Multi-Cultural Perspectives,” XIIth Annual Conference
of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), University of Leicester, England, 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 Annual Conference of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies
(ISAPS) and Society for African Philosophy in North America(SAPINA), 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.
*”Philosophy Globalisation and
Justice,” Xth Annual Conference International Society for African Philosophy & Studies (ISAPS) and Society for African
Philosophy in North America (SAPINA), 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, 2003BLISS (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. FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
French (good); Italian (adequate); Yoruba
(proficiency certificate for reading of).
7.
EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS, ELECTED OFFICES, INVITED CONSULTANCIES, MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND AWARDS.
a.
EDITORIAL.
The Caribbean Journal of
Philosophy (Editorial Board)
Journal on African Philosophy (Editorial Board)
Polylog: E-Forum (http://www.polylog.org) for Intercultural Philosophizing (Advisory
Board)
The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy (Editorial Board)
b. ELECTED
OFFICES.
Ex-Officio President, International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), 2006-2010
President, International Society
for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), 2004-06
General Secretary, Society for African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA), 2002-2006
c. INVITED CONSULTANCIES
Member, 2006-2007,
2007-2008, 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, 2006-2009.
d. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
African Studies Association (ASA)
American Philosophical Association (APA)
American
Association of University Professors (AAUP)
International Society for African Philosophy & Studies (ISAPS)
PEN (invited member, 2007 - )
e. AWARDS.
Fulbright West African Research Grant, July-September 2003
