Charley Ejede Mejame

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy with extensive experience in teaching and research across diverse philosophical traditions, including continental, ancient, and comparative philosophy. Proven ability to deliver comprehensive lectures, conduct scholarly research on interdisciplinary studies, philosophy of science, especially the metaphysics of physics, philosophical critique of AI, on key figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and Heidegger, Pascal, Derrida, Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and facilitate philosophical translation, enabling direct access to original texts. Expertise includes ancient Greek philosophy, French and German continental philosophy, philosophy of physics, metaphysics of physics, engineering ethics, AI, logic, and critical thinking. Dedicated to fostering deep understanding and interdisciplinary engagement in philosophical studies.

• American Philosophical Association, APA
• Society for phenomenological and Existential philosophy
• European association for comparative literature.
• International Society of Philosophers, UK
• Council research in Values and Philosophy
• Association Africaine des philosophes.
• Association Camerounaise des philosophes
• Association camerounaise de professeurs de francais.

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• Religion, conflict and peace, Harvard University
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• German continental philosophy: Meister Eckhart, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, phenomenology, hermeneutics
• Ancient Greek philosophy: The pre-Socratic thinkers, Plotinus, Plato, Aristotle
• French philosophy: Descartes, Pascal, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, Albert Camus, Jacques Derrida, Michel Henry
• : French and Francophone phenomenology
• Eastern Philosophy: Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy
• African philosophy: African Sapential tradition, interrogation of African languages, African philosophical currents and perspectives.
• Artificial Intelligence: Researches on artificial intelligence. 1. The theory of artificial intelligence, logic, mechanical thinking and its artificial reproduction, the moral question of AI, The theological question of AI
• Littérature et philosophie: la philosophie, la littérature et l’expérience du monde: 1.la poésie de René Char, Marguerite Yourcenar. 2. Conte philosophique, le roman philosophique (Sartre), le théâtre philosophique (Albert Camus, Marivaux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett).
• Littérature Francaise contemporaine:
• French language:Le français des romanciers Camerounais, le français de la jeunesse camerounaise

• Served as member of search committee at the University of Pretoria, 2004-2007.
• Gave talks on the necessity of collaborative teaching at the University of Douala, and served as member of French and Philosophy search committees, 1999.
• Gave talks on the necessity of teachers to teach students to value cultural differences, and served as member of French, Philosophy and German search committees, 1997

• Central European University training on teaching methodology. November, 2007.
• University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, workshop on teaching at the university and colleges,2001.
• University of South African training on online teaching technologies, 2002.
• University of Pretoria,Pretoria,South Africa on training on the use of new technologies including blocs, new research tools, electronic databases, new ways of receiving and treating information, 2003; 2004;2006.

• BOOKS
• In progress
• Philosophical critique of Artificial Intelligence: Heidegger and Michel Foucault
• Great thinkers of the African world
• Barbarism within excellence: the problematic of violence in contemporary continental philosophy
• The precious alterity in contemporary French continental philosophical philosophy and in the African sapiential tradition
• Articles
• Submitted
• Reason and its predicament. A reading of Kant, Husserl, Sartre and Michel Henry, Sri Aurobindo and Krishna Murti
• Accepted
• Levinas on the anthropology of the other. Violence and meditation on the other
• Kant’s cosmopolitan theory and the destiny of the skin
• Jacques Derrida and the renascence of poets
• BOOKS PUBLISHED
• Technology and the orphans of Being and the castigation of the barbarism of Galileo in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Michel Henry. Generis publishers.2021
• L’Existentialisme ou philosophie de la mort de Dieu (2005) Edition Clé.Pp 350.
• La Pensée Négro-africaine Chez Marcien Towa.(2003).Editions Clé.Pp280
• Nietzsche et André Malraux.(2000).Ed.Clé.
• La problématique de la recherche scientifique en Afrique.(1999).Ed.Clé.Pp.250.
• L’urgence de la pensée:le statut du pouvoir politique en Afrique(1996).Ed.Clé.Pp.350
• Articles in Refereed journals
• Charley Mejame Ejede, Jean-Paul Sartre, Freedom, violence and Racism, Dialogue and Universalism, VOL XXXVI, No1/2026
• Charley Mejame Ejede, Philosophy and African sapiential tradition: giving voice to wisdom and the conceptualization of traditional African society.Part 1. In Dialogue and universalism, Vol XXXIII. No 1/2023, pp 1-36
• Charley Mejame Ejede, Philosophy and African sapiential tradition. Giving voice to wisdom and the conceptualization of traditional African society.Part 1. In Dialogue and universalism, Vol.XXXIII.No 1/2023, pp 37-57
• Charley E. Mejame, Language and pure or rational ontology in Dialogue and universalism. Fall 3/2015, Pg 163-178.
• Charley E. Mejame, The question of alterity and the problem of encounters, communication and dialogue( Journal of philosophy: A cross-Disciplinary Inquiry. Fall 2015, Vol.8.19. Pg 49-68.
• Charley. Mejame, Foucault et la mort de l’homme (2013), tome 82.pp 151-176.Annales de la Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines.
• Charley. Mejame. Derrida: interroger la philosophie(2012), tome 83.pp 15-56 Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences Humaines.
• Mejame, in Forum Philosophicum.International journal for Philosophy: ‘The Technological problematic and the realms of salvation in Heidegger’s philosophy”.(Fall 2009).Vol.14.Pp.343-367.
• Mejame. In Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions. ‘Critique linguistique de l’ontologie bantoue de Tempels” (2008).Journal of the world Union of Catholic philosophical societies, Canada.Vol.4.Pp.73-88.
• Annale de la faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines.”La dualité et non dualité dans la pensée grecque”(2006).Vol. 31.Pp.1-14
• Annale de La faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines.”Le Stoïcisme de Samuel Beckett”.(2005),vol 30.p.150-250
• Revue des lettres modernes. ‘Camus: “L’absurde sur le mouvement de Balancier” (2004) vol 21. Pp.64-73
• Annales de la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines. “La Problématique métaphysique dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger”(2003).Vol.29.Pp.53-87.
• Annales de la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines.”If individual animal ethics is not based on anthropomorphism, then-?”(2004). Vol.28.10-15.
• Annale de la faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines.”Le langage et les choses dans l’ontologie classique”(2002).Vol.27.Pp.36-46.
• Annale de la faculté des lettres et Sciences humaines.”Insight into the nature of Being in Pre-Socratic Philosophy”(2001).Vol.26.Pp.71-81.
• Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaine.”Le dimorphisme de la métaphysique classique comme onto-théologie”(2000).Vol.25.Pp.17-26.
• Annale de la Faculté des arts, lettres et sciences humaines.”Authenticity in Heidegger and Sartre: a dialectical contrast”(1999).vol.24.Pp.21-24
• Revue des lettres modernes.”Esthetique de la poésie”.(2003).Vol.20.Pp.73-86.
• Revue culturelle Camerounaise-Cameroun cultural review.” Evaluating Cameroon art: the problem of criteria” (2003).Vol.28.Pp.63-71.
• Revue Culturelle Camerounaise-Cameroun Cultural review. “On Epie Ngome’s what God has put asunder”(2002).Vol.27.Pp.43-56.
• Revue Culturelle Camerounaise-Cameroun cultural review.”La question de la liberté politique au Cameroun.(2001).Vol.26.Pp.69-82.
• Revue Culturelle camerounaise.”Le francais des romanciers Camerounais” (2000).Vol.25.Pp.82-93.
• Revue Culturelle camerounaise-Cameroun cultural review.”La representation de la nature dans la pensée traditionnelle”.(1999).Pp.39-52.
• Presented Papers
• “Rhythm in African aesthetics: mediocrity or excellence?”. Paper presented at the University of West Indies philosophy symposium, Cave-Hill campus, Barbados, 2013.
• “The personal and the impersonal in Allen Ginsberg poetic artistry”, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK.March, 2008.
• “The severance between education and Being in Michel Henry’s philosophy”, Annual conference in Philosophy, University of West Indies. Barbados, February, 2009.
• “The technological problematic and realms of salvation in Heidegger and Michel Henry’s Philosophy”, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. December 4.2007.
• “The urgency of thought: the ethical dilemma of our respectful encounter with others: a space for discourse between Africa and the West”, the university of West Indies, Cave-hill campus, annual symposium, 2006.
• “The sapential function and transmission of knowledge in traditional African society”. UNESCO African philosophy conference in the 21th century, University of South Africa, 2006.
• “The pathetic search for Being in Heidegger’s meditation”, University of Pretoria lecture, UP.,2005.
• “The Search for God in Nietzsche and Albert Camus”, University of South Africa lecture, UNISA. 2002.
• “The two philosophers in Kant’s philosophy”, University of South Africa lecture, 2002.
• “Living Earth or dead Nature in traditional Greek and modern representations of the world”, University of Stellenbosch lecture in Greek studies, December. 2001.