Meet AFISI Oseni T., an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
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Professor
Philosophy
Faculty of Arts, LASU Ojo Campus
12noon - 2pm Daily
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Oseni Taiwo Afisi is a Professor of Philosophy at Lagos State University. He specialises in Philosophy of Science, Logic and Critical Rationalism. Prof. Oseni Taiwo Afisi has won several academic awards and grants among which were the 2023 Institutional Based Research (IBR) Grant awarded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND); the 2021 Hannah Arendt Humanities Network (HAHN) Annual Text Seminar award at the Bard College, New York. In 2019, he was a conference grant recipient to organise a UNESCO (MOST) Syndicated Workshop awarded by the UNESCO Regional Office Abuja, Nigeria.
In 2018, he received a conference grant to organise a Karl Popper for Africa International Conference, awarded by the Karl Popper Charitable Trust, United Kingdom. In 2018, he was a conference Scholarship Recipient for the Karl Popper and the Philosophy of Mathematics Symposium, awarded by the Karl Popper Foundation, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria. In 2018, he was also a workshop Scholarship Recipient for the 2nd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities (LSSDH), awarded by LSSDH Volkswagen Foundation Partial Scholarship. In 2016, he received a Teaching Excellence Award (Best in Faculty of Arts), awarded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria.
Prof. Oseni Taiwo Afisi is a member of Philosophical Association of Nigeria (PAN).
Prof. Oseni Taiwo Afisi has attended conferences, workshops, and technical meetings in many countries which include New Zealand, Australia, USA, Brazil, United Kingdom, Austria, France, Tanzania and Ghana. His latest edited volume is Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development (2021).
Prof. Afisi is the current Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Lagos State University. He was Director of Special Interventions, at Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. He was Head of the Department of Philosophy (March 2019-October 2021), Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria.
