- I am a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine.
- I am a Research Associate in the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
- I am also a member of the Bantu Philosophy Project Network, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
- At UC Irvine, I work on a campus-wide initiative led by Duncan Pritchard to embed intellectual virtues in the university curriculum at UCI and beyond: “Embedding Intellectual Virtues in a University Curriculum.”
- I work mainly in epistemology, metaphilosophy and African philosophy.
Brief Bio:
- 2023: PhD in Philosophy, Cardiff University, category one pass (pass with no corrections!)
- Internal Examiner: Jonathan Webber (Cardiff University)
- External Examiner: Avner Baz (Tufts University)
- Supervisors: Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University), Liz Irvine (Cardiff University), and Mona Simeon (University of Glasgow)
- My contact: Irikefep@uci.edu
“Knowledge is one form of good; happiness is another. If there are intimate connections between knowledge and happiness, it should not be surprising that the pursuit of one is not easily separable from the pursuit of the other.”
—Linda T. Zagzebski
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