About

Prof Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani (PhD) is a  full Professor of African Philosophy and has taught for several years at the University of Ghana, being a graduate of the Pontificia Università Urbaniana Roma (Urban Pontifical University, Rome), Italy. He is an external assessor for affiliate institutions on Logic and Critical Thinking. He was the Chair of Long Essay, Library and Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy and Classics. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra (Australian Capital Territory) and Associate Editor (recently appointed) of the combined American-European-Australian Journal of PublicDeliberation. He has published in many high-impact journals and presses, including Cambridge and Oxford University Presses, and is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy. He is the winner of the 2018 University of Ghana Humanities Provost Publication Award (Mid-Career Category) for the article "The Consensus Project and Three Levels of Deliberation" in the journal Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (published by Cambridge University Press).

Research Interest

African Philosophy

Publications

Project Title: Investigating the Potentials of Bargaining in Resolving Disagreements and Conflict
PI: Prof. Emmanuel Ani
Funder: Personal Funds
 

Recent Publications:
Ani, E. I. (2023). “Economic Foundation of Racism” in B. Ochyere-Manu, S. Morgan and O. Nwosimiri (Eds.), Contemporary Development Ethics from an African Perspective (pp. 165-182). Springer.
Ani, E. I. (2025). Dilemma of Loose Physicalism. Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Online First 8 September.
Ani, E. I. (2023). Considering Escaping Hell. Religious Studies. 59(1): 1-17
Ani, E. I. (2022). Ideal and Non-Ideal Deliberation: the Question of Equivocation. Politeia 40(1): 1-21.
Ani, E. I. (2021). Open Borders and Brain Drain: A Moral Dimension. Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 22(2): 168-185.