John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
EMAIL: tundebewaji@yahoo.com
PHONE: +18768051909
ADDRESS: 28 Elizabeth Avenue, Kingston 10, Jamaica
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Farming
MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2016
POST HELD: None
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: None
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. Retired
SPECIALTIES: Philosophy, Leadership Development, Bioethics
APPOINTMENTS: None
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS: Nil
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Bioethics, Sustainable Alternative and Renewable Energy Solutions, Education Management and Public Service Counseling.
Biography
John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji, FJIM, MNAL; BA, MA Philosophy (Ife), PhD Philosophy (Ibadan), Certificate in Philosophy for Children (Montclair State College, New Jersey, USA), PGDE in Distance Education and MA in Distance Education (COL/IGNOU).
Professor of Philosophy. Former Coordinator, Philosophy Section, Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Member, CODESRIA College of PhD Mentors in Africa; Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Current Carnegie/CODESRIA Visiting Professor in Philosophy (Awarded) to Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (2020), Former Carnegie/CODESRIA Visiting Professor in Philosophy to Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (2016). Former Jay Newman Professor of Philosophy of Culture, Brooklyn College – CUNY, USA (2011-2012). Gugenheim Research Fellow in Philosophy of Culture, 2010-2011. Member, Nigerian Academy of Letters, Nigeria (2018). Member, Global Summit of Bioethics (2016-2018). Chairman, National Bioethics Committee of Jamaica (NBCJ-UNESCO) (2014-2019). Fellow, Jamaican Institute of Management, Jamaica (2006). Former Philosophy Citizen Ambassador to Hungary and Russia (1995). Former Rhodes Visiting Lecturer to UWI, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica (1991-1992). Former Caribbean Exchange Scholar to Hunter College, CUNY, USA (2002). Former Visiting Scholar, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana (2002-2003). Founding Editor, Caribbean Journal of Philosophy (CJP). Founding President, International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS), USA (1995-2000). Books: titled Beauty and Culture in 2003 and Black Aesthetics (2013); Epistemology, with the first major text-book by an African philosopher in that area of philosophy titled An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge – a Pluricultural Approach (2007); Philosophy of Culture, Leadership and Development, with the publication of his Narratives of Struggle – the Philosophy and Politics of Development (2012); Ethics in African Perspective, Ontologized Ethics – new Essays in African Meta-ethics (2013) co-edited with Elvis Imafidon; Introduction to Philosophy and Logic (2014) coedited with others; Philosophy of Law with his The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society – an Essay in African Philosophy of Law (2016); The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century (2017) co-edited with others. His latest, jointly authored, book (with Peter Babatunde Adedara) is Media Theory, Practice and Ethics (Ibadan: BWright, 2017) and, edited (with Doyin Aguoru), Identity Recreation in Global African Encounters (Lexington 2019).
