Job Vacancy: Department of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand

[Aribiah Attoe]

The Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand invites applications for the position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ethics (broadly understood) and Manager of its postgraduate programme in Applied Ethics for Professionals (AEP).

The successful candidate will teach ethics and applied ethics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervise MA and PhD students in AEP. They will also be responsible for redesigning, strengthening, and expanding AEP to meet the needs of South African professionals.

The Department’s standard teaching load is four courses per year (equivalent to a North American 2:2), with the programme management role reducing the load by approximately one course.

Applicants should hold a PhD in Philosophy and have experience in the management of academic programmes—for example, curriculum design and review, building external partnerships, and leading strategic growth initiatives. A strong interest in education and a research profile in ethics are also desirable.

The level of appointment (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) will be commensurate with the candidate’s teaching and managerial experience, as well as their research profile.

The University is committed to employment equity. Preference may be given to appointable applicants from the underrepresented designated groups in terms of the relevant employment equity plans and policies of the University.

Further information about the Applied Ethics for Professionals Programme is available here:  AEP Programme.

Inquiries should be directed to the Head of Department, Assoc. Prof. Dylan Futter, dylan....@wits.ac.za.

To apply, please follow the links from the University’s IREC site. IRC105350.

Closing Date: 15 February 2026

Aribiah David Attoe, PhD

ORCID No.: 0000-0001-9786-1824

Department of Philosophy

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Member, The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria

Co-author: New Conversations on the Problem of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019)

Guest Editor: "Special Issue on African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life", South African Journal of Philosophy (2020)

Author: Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Co-recipient: John Templeton Fund, via the Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grant, University of Birmingham.

IEP Entry: https://iep.utm.edu/afr-mean/

Co-Guest Editor: Special Issue on "Shifting Perspectives on Contemporary African Philosophy of Religion", Religious Studies (2022).

Co-Guest Editor: Special Issue on "African Perspectives on God, the Problem of Evil and Meaning in Life", Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religion (2022).

Editor: African Perspectives on the Question of Life's Meaning (Routledge, 2023)
Co-editor: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence (Springer)

Author: The Question of Life's Meaning: An African Perspective (Palgrave)