Carl Mika
Biographic Data
| ID | 160790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Mika |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Mika |
| SIGNATURE | MIKA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2348-4290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Is philosophy of education Western? Views from Asia and beyond
AI and the future of humanity: ChatGPT-4, philosophy and education – Critical responses
Notes15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.208555416 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-chatbots-naive-idiots-no-sense-of-irony-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-0317 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html
Darkly truthful: An indigenous séance with Novalis
Thinking and writing draw on those who have gone before, in a more than abstract way. In this article, I answer the call of one philosopher–Novalis, the early German Romantic–in the form of a séance, which is really a dialogue with the dead. I speak to him, as a Maori writer, about the abstract philosophical issues that Maori encounter and anticipate his responses and his thinking. I suspect Novalis would have taken delight in this sort of a-rati…
Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘ the end of the world’
The case for academic plagiarism education: A Pesa Executive collective writing project
This is a collective writing piece from scholars on the PESA executive\nabout The Case for Academic Plagiarism Education
Surviving academic Whiteness: Perspectives from the Pacific
Subjecting ourselves to madness: A Maori approach to unseen instruction
Where does the object or idea begin, and where does it end as ‘unseen’ (and how do both those states of being provoke our thinking)? There is scope in Maori philosophising to think of the seen object or its idea in various ways, including as materially constituting the self and the rest of the world; as incomplete for a mental representation; as constituted in itself by the unseen (and thus not symbolic of any division between seen and unseen); a…
Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the Pesa executive
Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion
Refusing the 'Foolish Wisdom of Resignation: Kaupapa Māori in conversation with Adorno
Drawing on select works of Adorno, we will first rehearse his reasons for a rejuvenation of philosophy and apply them to philosophers working on world philosophical traditions. We will then analyse Adorno's arguments pertaining to the theory-praxis relation to ascertain whether his thought could accommodate a study of world philosophical traditions for the simple reason that they are present in a particular society. Shifting our focus slightly, w…
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Anticipation
Situating decolonization: An Indigenous dilemma
Being Indigenous and operating in an institution such as a university places us in a complex position. The premise of decolonizing history, literature, curriculum, and thought in general creates a tenuous space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to confront a shared colonial condition. What does decolonization mean for Indigenous peoples? Is decolonization an implied promise to squash the tropes of coloniality? Or is it a way for non-Indig…
A Maori il-logical ethics of the dark: An example with ‘trauma’
Where has all the hilarity gone – and, with it, the ethics of the dark? In this article, I engage with our metaphysical entities of darkness (in Maori, Te Po) and nothingness (Te Kore). Undermining and re-declaring (only to un-declare once again) are more than just pleasurable exercise for my own indigenous group – Maori; they are ethical necessities that keep one’s certainties in check. I then consider one controversial statement about trauma an…
The Dilemma of Western Philosophy
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Anticipation
What is indigenous research in philosophy of education? And what is Pesa, from an indigenous perspective
Carl and Georgina: Often, indigenous research mimics its mainstream counterpart by focusing on data collection. Method is extremely important in discussions about philosophy, because method is imme
What is philosophy for indigenous people, in relation to education
Education has attracted the attention of several indigenous scholars as a discipline of particular significance and relevance. Smith (2012) and Pihama (2001) have pointed to the far reach of educat
Dilemma of Western Philosophy
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A Worlded Philosophy
Worlded Object and its Presentation: A Māori philosophy of language
In an era concerned with the survival of Indigenous languages, language as a general phenomenon needs to be thought of as thoroughly connected to one's worldview. In this article, I propose a different conception of language that sides more with what I call ‘the worlding of things’ than linguistics. To foreshadow my speculations on language, I consider the possibility that, within the representation of one entity in perception, there exist all ot…
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Exploring whakaaro: A way of responsive thinking in Maori research
The experience of researching as a Māori student within academia will often raise questions about how and whether the student’s research privileges Māori world views and articulates culturally specific epistemologies. This study offers some theorising, from the perspectives of a Maori doctoral student and her Maori supervisor (the authors of this study), on the metaphysical nature of research for Maori. It emphasises that there is a space for spe…
Some Thinking from, and away from, Heidegger
How do we encourage Heidegger’s notion of originary thinking in education, and indeed how should one engage with thinking at all? In this response, I consider the challenge that Heidegger lays down for speculation that refers certainty to the unknown. In my answer to the contributors of this special issue, I highlight the fact that all of us are compelled to depart from Heidegger at some stage but, at the same time, to carry vestiges of his medit…
Tawhiao’s Unstated Heteroglossia: Conversations with Bakhtin
In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a language that is emotional, innately tied to a static mooring of pre-rational thought. Yet, in this p…
Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education
This special issue takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. Although a handful of recent EPAT
AI and the future of humanity: ChatGPT-4, philosophy and education – Critical responses
Notes15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.208555416 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-chatbots-naive-idiots-no-sense-of-irony-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-0317 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html
Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the Pesa executive
Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Counter-Colonial and Philosophical Claims: An indigenous observation of Western philosophy
Providing an indigenous opinion on anything is a difficult task. To be sure, there is a multitude of possible indigenous responses to dominant Western philosophy. My aim in this paper is to assess dominant analytic Western philosophy in light of the general insistence of most indigenous authors that indigenous metaphysics is holistic, and to make some bold claims about both dominant Western philosophy in line with an indigenous metaphysics of hol…
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A Worlded Philosophy
Situating decolonization: An Indigenous dilemma
Being Indigenous and operating in an institution such as a university places us in a complex position. The premise of decolonizing history, literature, curriculum, and thought in general creates a tenuous space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to confront a shared colonial condition. What does decolonization mean for Indigenous peoples? Is decolonization an implied promise to squash the tropes of coloniality? Or is it a way for non-Indig…
Overcoming ‘Being’ in Favour of Knowledge: The fixing effect of ‘mātauranga’
It is common to hear Māori discuss primordial states of Being, yet in colonisation those very central beliefs are forced into weaker utterances. In this process those utterances merely conform to a colonised agenda. ‘Mātauranga’, a tidy term that overwhelmingly refers to an epistemological knowing of the world, colludes nicely with its English equivalent, ‘knowledge’, to further colonise those core contemplations of Being. Its plausibility relies…
Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education
This special issue takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. Although a handful of recent EPAT
Māori in the Kingdom of the Gaze: Subjects or critics
For Māori, a real opportunity exists to flesh out some terms and concepts that Western thinkers have adopted and that precede disciplines but necessarily inform them. In this article, we are intent on describing one of these precursory phenomena—Foucault’s Gaze—within a framework that accords with a Māori philosophical framework. Our discussion is focused on the potential and limits of colonised thinking, which has huge implications for such disc…
Exploring whakaaro: A way of responsive thinking in Maori research
The experience of researching as a Māori student within academia will often raise questions about how and whether the student’s research privileges Māori world views and articulates culturally specific epistemologies. This study offers some theorising, from the perspectives of a Maori doctoral student and her Maori supervisor (the authors of this study), on the metaphysical nature of research for Maori. It emphasises that there is a space for spe…
A Maori il-logical ethics of the dark: An example with ‘trauma’
Where has all the hilarity gone – and, with it, the ethics of the dark? In this article, I engage with our metaphysical entities of darkness (in Maori, Te Po) and nothingness (Te Kore). Undermining and re-declaring (only to un-declare once again) are more than just pleasurable exercise for my own indigenous group – Maori; they are ethical necessities that keep one’s certainties in check. I then consider one controversial statement about trauma an…
Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘ the end of the world’
The case for academic plagiarism education: A Pesa Executive collective writing project
This is a collective writing piece from scholars on the PESA executive\nabout The Case for Academic Plagiarism Education
Refusing the 'Foolish Wisdom of Resignation: Kaupapa Māori in conversation with Adorno
Drawing on select works of Adorno, we will first rehearse his reasons for a rejuvenation of philosophy and apply them to philosophers working on world philosophical traditions. We will then analyse Adorno's arguments pertaining to the theory-praxis relation to ascertain whether his thought could accommodate a study of world philosophical traditions for the simple reason that they are present in a particular society. Shifting our focus slightly, w…
Some Thinking from, and away from, Heidegger
How do we encourage Heidegger’s notion of originary thinking in education, and indeed how should one engage with thinking at all? In this response, I consider the challenge that Heidegger lays down for speculation that refers certainty to the unknown. In my answer to the contributors of this special issue, I highlight the fact that all of us are compelled to depart from Heidegger at some stage but, at the same time, to carry vestiges of his medit…
Tawhiao’s Unstated Heteroglossia: Conversations with Bakhtin
In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a language that is emotional, innately tied to a static mooring of pre-rational thought. Yet, in this p…
Thereness: Implications of Heidegger's "presence" for Māori
For Māori, the philosophical consequences of colonization are a hugely important issue, due to both the subtlety and the omnipresence of Western metaphysics. In this article I refer to the "metaphysics of presence" through one major Western thinker-Martin Heidegger-who identified "presence" as a problem for the West. He proposes that the metaphysics of presence underpins every perception in the West and that it is the fundamental mistake of philo…
Blind, or Keenly Self-regarding? The dilemma of Western philosophy
Introducing the Indigenous Philosophy Group (IPG)
This group guest editorial introduces the Indigenous Philosophy Group, or IPG, and its initial members, purpose and possibilities. The IPG provides an umbrella for exploring indigenous philosophica
The Utterance, the Body and the Law: Seeking an Approach to Concretizing the Sacredness of Maori Language
In what possible ways does the sacredness of a language have application in an everyday, concrete sense - in a contemporary context? If we want to discuss the sacredness of language, can we conceptualise such sacrality in anything other than an abstracted form? I will consider some places where a proposed sacredness of the Maori language might come to bear, and will particularly question its usage within the process of the law. My primary aim in …
Body-Snatching: Changes to Coroners Legislation and Possible Maori Responses
The term body-snatcher has enjoyed a renaissance in the media recently, as various Māori have moved to reclaim their deceased relations. From a Māori perspective, the claiming of bodies has nothing to do with body-snatching, a term that referred to episodes in the West. Indeed, Māori may see some laws themselves as instruments that snatch the body, in contravention of Māori customs. One of these laws, the Coroners Act 2006, may have made some pro…
Overcoming ‘Being’ in Favour of Knowledge: The fixing effect of ‘mātauranga’
It is common to hear Māori discuss primordial states of Being, yet in colonisation those very central beliefs are forced into weaker utterances. In this process those utterances merely conform to a colonised agenda. ‘Mātauranga’, a tidy term that overwhelmingly refers to an epistemological knowing of the world, colludes nicely with its English equivalent, ‘knowledge’, to further colonise those core contemplations of Being. Its plausibility relies…
Blind, or Keenly Self-regarding? The dilemma of Western philosophy
Introducing the Indigenous Philosophy Group (IPG)
This group guest editorial introduces the Indigenous Philosophy Group, or IPG, and its initial members, purpose and possibilities. The IPG provides an umbrella for exploring indigenous philosophica
Novalis’ Poetic Uncertainty: A Bildung with the Absolute
Novalis, the Early German Romantic poet and philosopher, had at the core of his work a mysterious depiction of the ‘absolute’. The absolute is Novalis’ name for a substance that defies precise knowledge yet calls for a tentative and sensitive speculation. How one asserts a truth, represents an object, and sets about encountering things in the world, is in the first instance the domain of the absolute, which diffuses through all things in the worl…
Counter-Colonial and Philosophical Claims: An indigenous observation of Western philosophy
Providing an indigenous opinion on anything is a difficult task. To be sure, there is a multitude of possible indigenous responses to dominant Western philosophy. My aim in this paper is to assess dominant analytic Western philosophy in light of the general insistence of most indigenous authors that indigenous metaphysics is holistic, and to make some bold claims about both dominant Western philosophy in line with an indigenous metaphysics of hol…
Māori in the Kingdom of the Gaze: Subjects or critics
For Māori, a real opportunity exists to flesh out some terms and concepts that Western thinkers have adopted and that precede disciplines but necessarily inform them. In this article, we are intent on describing one of these precursory phenomena—Foucault’s Gaze—within a framework that accords with a Māori philosophical framework. Our discussion is focused on the potential and limits of colonised thinking, which has huge implications for such disc…
Thereness: Implications of Heidegger's "presence" for Māori
For Māori, the philosophical consequences of colonization are a hugely important issue, due to both the subtlety and the omnipresence of Western metaphysics. In this article I refer to the "metaphysics of presence" through one major Western thinker-Martin Heidegger-who identified "presence" as a problem for the West. He proposes that the metaphysics of presence underpins every perception in the West and that it is the fundamental mistake of philo…
Worlded Object and its Presentation: A Māori philosophy of language
In an era concerned with the survival of Indigenous languages, language as a general phenomenon needs to be thought of as thoroughly connected to one's worldview. In this article, I propose a different conception of language that sides more with what I call ‘the worlding of things’ than linguistics. To foreshadow my speculations on language, I consider the possibility that, within the representation of one entity in perception, there exist all ot…
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Exploring whakaaro: A way of responsive thinking in Maori research
The experience of researching as a Māori student within academia will often raise questions about how and whether the student’s research privileges Māori world views and articulates culturally specific epistemologies. This study offers some theorising, from the perspectives of a Maori doctoral student and her Maori supervisor (the authors of this study), on the metaphysical nature of research for Maori. It emphasises that there is a space for spe…
Some Thinking from, and away from, Heidegger
How do we encourage Heidegger’s notion of originary thinking in education, and indeed how should one engage with thinking at all? In this response, I consider the challenge that Heidegger lays down for speculation that refers certainty to the unknown. In my answer to the contributors of this special issue, I highlight the fact that all of us are compelled to depart from Heidegger at some stage but, at the same time, to carry vestiges of his medit…
Tawhiao’s Unstated Heteroglossia: Conversations with Bakhtin
In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a language that is emotional, innately tied to a static mooring of pre-rational thought. Yet, in this p…
Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education
This special issue takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. Although a handful of recent EPAT
The Dilemma of Western Philosophy
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Anticipation
What is indigenous research in philosophy of education? And what is Pesa, from an indigenous perspective
Carl and Georgina: Often, indigenous research mimics its mainstream counterpart by focusing on data collection. Method is extremely important in discussions about philosophy, because method is imme
What is philosophy for indigenous people, in relation to education
Education has attracted the attention of several indigenous scholars as a discipline of particular significance and relevance. Smith (2012) and Pihama (2001) have pointed to the far reach of educat
Dilemma of Western Philosophy
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A Worlded Philosophy
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Anticipation
Situating decolonization: An Indigenous dilemma
Being Indigenous and operating in an institution such as a university places us in a complex position. The premise of decolonizing history, literature, curriculum, and thought in general creates a tenuous space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to confront a shared colonial condition. What does decolonization mean for Indigenous peoples? Is decolonization an implied promise to squash the tropes of coloniality? Or is it a way for non-Indig…
A Maori il-logical ethics of the dark: An example with ‘trauma’
Where has all the hilarity gone – and, with it, the ethics of the dark? In this article, I engage with our metaphysical entities of darkness (in Maori, Te Po) and nothingness (Te Kore). Undermining and re-declaring (only to un-declare once again) are more than just pleasurable exercise for my own indigenous group – Maori; they are ethical necessities that keep one’s certainties in check. I then consider one controversial statement about trauma an…
Subjecting ourselves to madness: A Maori approach to unseen instruction
Where does the object or idea begin, and where does it end as ‘unseen’ (and how do both those states of being provoke our thinking)? There is scope in Maori philosophising to think of the seen object or its idea in various ways, including as materially constituting the self and the rest of the world; as incomplete for a mental representation; as constituted in itself by the unseen (and thus not symbolic of any division between seen and unseen); a…
Sociology (27 works) · Philosophy (26 works) · Epistemology (25 works) · Law (20 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Indigenous (12 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Higher education (9 works)