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  1. Falling in Love

    Article • MEΘEXIS Journal of Research in Values and Spirituality, November 2025, Institute for the Study of Values and Spirituality

    Patrick Giddy

  2. Three Secularization Theorists – Voegelin, Gauchet, Taylor – and the Implications for Secular Public Policy

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Patrick Giddy

  3. Humor as Social Critique

    Article • January 2025, Bloomsbury Academic

    Patrick Giddy

  4. Ecomodernism – defending a new humanist approach to nature

    Article • Acta Academica Critical views on society culture and politics, December 2024, University of the Free State

    Patrick Giddy

  5. A Theological Response to Secularism as Public Policy

    Article • Irish Theological Quarterly, September 2023, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Giddy

  6. Basic Intuitions in African Ethics

    Article • January 2023, Bloomsbury Academic

    Patrick Giddy

  7. Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Giddy

  8. Traditional African Philosophy of Mind in Dialogue with Contemporary Analytic Philosophy

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Giddy

  9. Is there an Inherent Secularising Tendency in Christianity (Gauchet)? Yes, but beware (Voegelin and Taylor)

    Article • Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, September 2022, UNISA Press

    Patrick Giddy

  10. Solidarity at Issue: Pandemics and Religious Belief

    Article • Phronimon, March 2021, UNISA Press

    Patrick Giddy

  11. Christian faith and unorthodox belief

    Article • Stellenbosch Theological Journal, January 2021, Evolve Publishing

    Patrick Giddy

  12. Integrating Traditional-Religious Knowledge in Higher Education. Human Agency as Philosophical Norm

    Article • January 2021, Emerald

    Patrick Giddy

  13. The Normative Structure of Personal Growth in Global Narratives: then and now

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy

  14. Marcel Gauchet and the transformation of Christianity into a secular and democratic society

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy

  15. Environmental Ethics in the Context of African Traditional Thought

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Giddy

  16. Spirituality and psychic transformation in an evolutionary framework

    Article • Religion and Theology, June 2018, Brill

    Patrick Giddy

  17. Augustine Shutte’s autobiographical account of his Christian theology

    Article • Stellenbosch Theological Journal, December 2016, Evolve Publishing

    Patrick Giddy

  18. Human agency and weakness of will: A neo-Thomist discussion

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy

  19. Porportionalist reasoning in business ethics

    Article • African Journal of Business Ethics, January 2015, Stellenbosch University

    Patrick Giddy

  20. “Philosophy for Children” in Africa: developing a framework

    Article • South African Journal of Education, January 2012, Education Association of South Africa

    Patrick Giddy

  21. The Ideal of African Scholarship and its Implications for Introductory Philosophy: the Example of Placide Tempels

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy

  22. Why Theology Can and Should be Taught at Secular Universities: Lonergan on Intellectual Conversion

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, June 2011, Wiley

    Patrick Giddy

  23. Special Divine Action and How to Do Philosophy of Religion

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy

  24. Attention, People of Earth! Aristotelian Ethics and the Problem of Exclusion

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy

  25. Objectivity and Subjectivity: an Argument for Rethinking the Philosophy Syllabus

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy

  26. Does Character Matter? Guardian Values in an Age of Commerce

    Article • Theoria, August 2007, Berghahn Journals

    Patrick Giddy

  27. Questions regarding tradition and modernity in contemporary Amakwaya practice

    Article • Transformation Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, January 2005, Project Muse

    Patrick Giddy

  28. African Traditional Thought and Growth in Personal Unity

    Article • International Philosophical Quarterly, January 2002, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Patrick Giddy

  29. Military Obedience

    Article • Professional Ethics A Multidisciplinary Journal, January 2002, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Patrick Giddy

  30. African Vitalogy: A Step Forward in African Thinking by Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia

    Article • Philosophia Africana, January 2001, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Patrick Giddy

  31. The African University and the Social Sciences

    Article • Method Journal of Lonergan Studies, January 1996, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Patrick Giddy

  32. Philosophy for Africa ‐ another view

    Article • Social Dynamics, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Giddy