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Record W4414130235 · doi:10.1080/02580136.2025.2536955

Mabogo Percy More as a philosopher of emancipation

2025· article· en· W4414130235 on OpenAlexaff
Devin Zane Shaw

Bibliographic record

VenueSouth African Journal of Philosophy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPostcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Canadian institutionsDouglas College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContingencyMainstreamArgument (complex analysis)EmancipationSet (abstract data type)Work (physics)Criticism

Abstract

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In this essay, I read Mabogo More’s work as a philosophy of emancipation, which I define as an approach to philosophy that aims to contribute to struggles for liberation. I show that there are numerous similarities between his work and Simone de Beauvoir’s thought as set out in The Ethics of Ambiguity. I argue that both of them critique mainstream philosophy’s so-called neutralism. I then reconstruct More’s argument that Sartre’s concept of contingency contributes to antiracist discourse and practice. I conclude by arguing that More’s concept of contingency also subverts the claim, made by practitioners of the Western philosophical tradition, that the problems it considers are necessary and endogenous to that tradition – a claim that has been used to preclude a radical critique of this tradition from the approaches that it excludes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.354
Threshold uncertainty score0.436

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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