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Jackson Juma Coy

Lecturer

College of Humanities

Philosophy and Religious Studies

Biography

Dr. Jackson Juma Coy
Dr. Jackson Juma Coy is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a position he has held since 2013.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical Urbanian University in 2004, followed by a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Dodoma, Tanzania, in 2012. In 2017, he obtained a Master’s degree in Ethics of Governance and Public Service from the University of Dar es Salaam, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy with a specialization in Medical Ethics in 2025.

In 2018, Dr. Coy was selected for the International Visiting Fellow Programme at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Martin Luther University, Germany. His research and teaching interests include Biomedical ethics, Logic, Feminist Philosophy, and Business Ethics.

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Projects

Tanzania Bioethics Organization

Publications

  1. Breaking Bad News: Terminal Illness and the Swahili culture of Gossip (unpublished academic article, 2019)

  2. Conceptualizing the notions of human-being and human-person in terminal discharge

    A moral account on end-of-life care in Tanzania (published in Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, November, 20234)

  3. Noise Pollution: A neglected public health ethical issue in Tanzania (an op-ed published in the Citizen Tanzanian on Sunday 18th July 2021)
  4. A Paradox of the Intellectual without Intellectual Virtues: A lesson to UDASA members (a newsletter article published in UDASA Newsletter, vol. 42, 2021)
  5. The Impact of Adaptive Preference on Tanzanian Women’s Emancipation (unpublished academic article, 2021)
  6. Didactics of Medical Ethics in Tanzanian Medical Schools: The Socratic Dialectic Midwifery Account (unpublished academic article, 2022).
  7. Music-Thanatology and End-of-life care at Outside Hospitals’ settings in Tanzania. An Account of Aesthetics of Health (unpublished academic article, 2022)
  8. Crime against logic in Tanzanian public discourse (an op-ed published in the Citizen Tanzanian on Sunday 30th  July 2023)
  9. Spiritual and moral dimensions of mental health problems (an op-ed published in the Citizen Tanzanian on Sunday 18th June 2023)
  10. Hitting children is never OK (an op-ed published in the Citizen Tanzanian on Wednesday 1st February 2023)
  11. Shouldn’t we all become pacifists? (an op-ed published in the Citizen Tanzanian on Saturday 25th March 2023)
  12. The question of happiness and the rise of philosopher queen in Tanzania (an op-ed published in the Citizen 11th March 2023)
  13. Environmental ethics, schooling demography and devotion to mother Earth Day (an op-ed published in the Citizen Saturday 22nd April 2023)
  14. Freedom of religion and paradox of worship in Tanzania (an op-ed published in the Citizen 9th April 2023)