About

Husein Inusah (PhD) is a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cape Coast. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees from the University of Cape Coast in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He earned his PhD degree through a split-site PhD programme between the University of Ghana, Ghana, and the University of Rochester, NY, USA in 2014. Dr. Inusah has been teaching at the University of Cape Coast as a regular faculty since October 2012, handling both undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Classics and Philosophy and supervising MPhil dissertations.

He is the 2015/16 winner of the University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor's Award for the Most Outstanding PhD Dissertation in the Humanities Category. He was a Dissertation Completion Fellow at the University of Rochester, NY, USA, during the 2013/14 academic year, where he studied under the renowned American Epistemologist, Richard Feldman. He is a fellow of the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Iso Lomso Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), and a fellow of the Wissenachaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.

Professor Inusah's area of specialization is in epistemology, and his areas of competence include Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, and Business Ethics. He has published in many peer-reviewed academic journals and is the leading author of a comprehensive text manual on Critical Thinking and Practical Reasoning for tertiary students.

He is currently researching the epistemology of decoloniality, the concept of rationality in traditional African political deliberations, the knowledge-producing potential of traditional African consensual democracy, epistemic vices and their obstruction of knowledge, and the infinitist notion of the regress of justification. Professor Inusah is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Philosophy and Culture, hosted by the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cape Coast, having previously served as Corresponding and Editorial Secretary of the journal. He reviews for the South African Journal of Philosophy, Manuscrito: International Journal of Philosophy, Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, and Business Ethics Quarterly.

He has also served as the Head of the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cape Coast from 2019-2021.