Dr. Joseph Thomas Ekong

EDUCATION

B. A, Philosophy (FIRST CLASS HONOURS), SS. Peter and Paul Major Seminary, Bodija, Ibadan, in affiliation with the University of Ibadan, 1992-1996.
M.A Theology, Dominican Institute, Ibadan, in affiliation with Duquesne University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A, 1999-2000.
M.A. Philosophy, University of Ibadan, 2001-2002
Ph. D in Philosophy, University of Lagos, Akoka, 2007-2011

Teaching

Lecturer, Dominican Institute, Ibadan, since 2000
Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty, St. Louis University, Missouri, 2004-2006
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Don Bosco Institute of Philosophy, Ibadan, since 2012.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Dominican Institute, Ibadan, since 2016;
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Dominican University, Ibadan, since 2017.
Course Advisor, 200 Level Philosophy Students, of the Dominican University, since 2018.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Dominican University, Ibadan.
Member of Appointments and Promotions Committee, Dominican University, since 2019.
Member of Examinations/Timetable Planning Committee, Dominican University, since 2019.
Member, Centre for Dominican Studies, Dominican University, Ibadan.
Member, Senate Committee, Dominican University, Ibadan.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION/SUB-SPECIALIZATION

Epistemology (Descartes’ Foundationalist Epistemology)
Philosophy of Science (Popper’s Falsificationism and Evolutionary Epistemology)
Kant’s Empirical Realism and Transcendental Idealism; the unifying role of the “synthetic a priori propositions” in Kant’s Philosophy; Kant’s Ontology and its pitfalls.

PUBLICATIONS

Joseph T. Ekong, “On the Synthesis of Pure Sensibility and Pure Rationality, in Kant’s Epistemology.” Accepted for publication in Ibadan Dominican Studies: A Dialogue of Faith, Reason and Science, Dominican University, May, 2020.
Joseph T. Ekong, “The ‘IS-OUGHT’ Controversy between Hart and Fuller, in the Philosophy of Law: Implications for Judicial Procedures and the Criminal Justice System.” Accepted for publication in Aquinas’ Day Series, Dominican University, May, 2020.
Joseph T. Ekong, “Philosophical Underpinnings of the Democratic Culture.” Accepted for publication in the Department of Philosophy Journal, University of Ibadan, May, 2020.
Joseph T. Ekong, “On the Use of the word ‘actual’ in Possible Worlds Metaphysics: A Contrastive Study of David Lewis and Alvin Plantinga.” Accepted for publication in the Department of Philosophy Journal, University of Ibadan, May, 2020.
Joseph T. Ekong, “Kant’s Theory of Human Transcendence and its Pitfalls.” Accepted for publication in Bodija Journal, A Philosophico-Theological Journal of SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Major Seminary, Ibadan, May, 2020.
Joseph T. Ekong, “The Common Good as a Regulative Principle in Catholic Social Teaching and Political Administration: The Nigerian Experience,” in Aquinas’ Day Series, Michael Dempsey Centre for Social and Religious Research, 5: 92-126, 2017.
Joseph T. Ekong, “Perceptual Scorekeeping in Edmund Husserl and Robert Brandom: Ethical and Epistemic Implications for Information Technology,” in Aquinas’ Day Series, Michael Dempsey Centre for Social and Religious Research, No. 4: 41-72, 2016.
Joseph T. Ekong, “The Notion of Normativity in Kant’s Practical Philosophy: A Contrastive Study of Christine Korsgaard’s and Paul Guyer’s Perspectives,” in Ibadan Dominican Studies: A Dialogue of Faith, Reason and Science, 1, Issue 2: 66-89, 2016.
Joseph T. Ekong, “St. Paul’s Moral Philosophy: His Rhetorical Style and Battle with Ethical Relativism,” in Ibadan Dominican Studies: A Dialogue of Faith, Reason and Science, Vol. 1, Issue 2: 36-48, 2016.
Joseph T. Ekong, “Frege’s and Russell’s Logicism: An Appraisal,” in Ibadan Dominican Studies: A Dialogue of Faith, Reason and Science, Vol. 1, No. 1: 191-228, 2015.
Joseph T. Ekong, “Philosophical Critique of Formal Deductive Systems” in Ibadan Dominican Studies: A Dialogue of Faith, Reason and Science, Vol. 1, No. 1: 84-111, 2015
Joseph T. Ekong, Descartes’ Foundationalism and Popper’s Fallibilism: A Reconciliation (Saarbrucken, Deutschland: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013).
Joseph T. Ekong, “Academic Standards in Nigerian Public and Private Universities,” in The Idea of a Nigerian University: A Revisit, Nigerian Philosophical Studies, III (Washington DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2013).
Joseph T. Ekong, “A Critique of Edmund Gettier’s Account of Knowledge” in Essays in Epistemology and Philosophy of History, edited by Chiedozie Okoro, (Lagos: Soladem Publishers, 2008).
Joseph T. Ekong, “On the Nature of Scientific Inference: A Contrastive Analysis of Bayesianism and Error-Statistics” in Essays in Epistemology and Philosophy of History, edited by Chiedozie Okoro, (Lagos: Soladem Publishers, 2008).
Joseph T. Ekong, & Francis M. Isichei, “On the Nature and Challenges of Empirical Knowledge: Its Implications for Pedagogy in Nigeria” in the Journal of Educational Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Vol. 6, No. 2: 17-32, 2006.