Tamba Nlandu, Ph.D.
Professor
Areas of Expertise
- AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
American Philosophy - Philosophy of Sport
- Philosophy of mind (epistemology
- cognitive science)
- and English linguistics.
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
African Philosophy - history of philosophy
- philosophy of culture
- social and political philosophy
- formal and informal logic
- business ethics
- metaphysics
- evolutionary psychology
- empiricism
- continental philosophy
- philosophy of perception.
Education
Ph. D. in Philosophy, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, May 1997
Dissertation: Reality, Perceptual Experience, and Cognition: A Study in Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Mind.
Licencié in Philosophy, University of Lubumbashi, Shaba (Katanga), DR. Congo, October 1980-July 1985
Thesis: "Le Pragmatisme de Charles Sanders Peirce comme Dépassement du Kantisme: Signification et Valeur Philosophique."
Licencié in English Language and Literature, Linguistics, University of Lubumbashi,
Shaba (Katanga), DR. Congo, October 1978-October 1983
Thesis: "Comparison and Intensification (Modification) in English andFrench: A
Contrastive Study."
Agrégé of High School Teaching, University of Lubumbashi, DR. Congo, October 1978-
July 1983.
Courses Taught
- -PL 2030 American Philosophy
- -PL 2031 African Philosophy + PL 2086-52 Business Ethics + PL 2087-51 Ethics in Sport.
- -PL 2086 Business Ethics
- -PL 2087 Ethics in Sport
- -PL 2097 African Philosophy and Post-colonial Africa (LINKED with PO 2240 Culture and Authority in Africa).
Publications
-Article, “On the Future of African Philosophy as an Academic Discipline.” International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 06, Issue no 09, September 2025, 1-7.-Book Chapter, “Football in DR Congo: A Critical Account of ‘Congolese Football,’” Augustine E. Ayuk (Editor), Football (Soccer) in Africa: Origins, Contributions, and Contradictions, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, 125-146.
-Article, “On the Concept of Fair Competition Prevalent in Today’s European Soccer Leagues.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Official Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association, Vol. 12, No. 2, May 2018, 162-176.
-Article, “On Some Philosophical Foundations of the Disappointing Performances of the African Soccer Teams in World Competitions.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Official Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association, Vol. 11, No. 2, May 2017, 192-206.
-Article, “The Dilemma of African Football,” Summer 2014, invited by Guillaume Attia, the Editor of the philosophy webpage www.thecritique.com, and published at http://www.thecritique.com/exclusive/the-philosophy-of-sport-in-practice-part-1-the-fifa-world-cup/, as part of a series of articles written by philosophers of sport from across the globe. The article examines, from a philosophy of sport perspective, the World Cup controversies surrounding the African national teams.
- Article, “The Fallacies of the Assumptions behind the Arguments for Goal-line Technology in Soccer,” Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy: Official Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2012, 451-66.
-Article, “One Play Cannot Be Known to Win or Lose a Game: A Fallibilist Account of Game” [2], Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Official Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association, Volume 5, Number 1, February 2011, 21-33.
-Article, “Play Until the Whistle Blows: Sportsmanship as the Outcome of Thirdness.” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 35 (2008): 73-89.
-Article, “On Habit and Consciousness: A Peircean Critique of William James’s
Conception of Habit,” Streams of William James, Volume 6, Issue 3, Fall 2004, 25-29.
-Article, “Charles S. Peirce on the Foundations of Philosophy and Culture,” International Studies in Philosophy 34:1, 2002, pp. 143-173.
-Article, "The Fallacy of Universalism: The Nature and Status of African Philosophy Revisited," International Studies in Philosophy 33:1, 2001, 83-104.
