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David Wiggins: Sameness and Substance (review)Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 9 (1): 73. 1983.
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57The Ontological Status of CategoriesInternational Philosophical Quarterly 39 (3): 249-264. 1999.
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1Identity and philosophyIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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141A political argument in favor of ethnic names: Alcoff’s defense of ‘latino’Philosophy and Social Criticism 31 (4): 409-417. 2005.
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101The Hermeneutic Role of a Book Review: A Response to GloverThe Pluralist 8 (2): 113-116. 2013.The primary function of a book review is to articulate and present an understanding of the book's thesis and argument, and to make a judgment as to its value, so that readers will themselves understand and be guided by the understanding and judgment of the reviewer. Reviews are supposed to be interpretations created for the sake of a potential audience for a book. Unfortunately, most reviews fail to fulfill this function insofar as they merely paraphrase the text they are supposed to interpret, …Read more
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32Metaphysics and its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of KnowledgeState University of New York Press. 1999.Systematically analyzes the nature of metaphysics
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110Surviving Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality by Jorge J. E. Gracia; The Foundations of a Philosophy of Race, Ethnicity, and NationalityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 48 (2): 247-255. 2008.
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14How Can We Know What God Means? The Interpretation of ReligionPalgrave. 2001.Explains the general conditions under which one can understand what God means through texts regarded as divinely revealed.
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1El problema de la individualidad en la temprana Escolástica. Teodorico, Gilberto y AbelardoPensamiento 40 (158): 203. 1984.
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28Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650 (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1994.Examines the place of individuation in the work of over 25 scholastic writers from when Arabic and Greek thought began to impact Europe, until scholasticism died out.
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134Categories and levels of realityAxiomathes 19 (2): 179-191. 2009.The discussion of the relation of levels of reality to categories is important because categories have often been interpreted as constituting levels of reality. This article explores whether this view is correct, and argues it is not. Categories as such should not be understood to constitute levels of reality, although particular categories may. The article begins with a discussion of levels of reality and then turns to specific questions about categories and how they are related to these levels…Read more
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40Numerical Continuity in Material SubstancesSouthwestern Journal of Philosophy 10 (2): 73-92. 1979.This paper investigates the problem of numerical continuity in thomistic metaphysics and attempts to point out the principle of identity in material substances. it has three parts: the first clarifies the issue and presents the possible alternatives; the second rejects various solutions which have been proposed by interpreters of thomas aquinas such as matter, form, accidents, and substance; and the third part argues that within thomistic metaphysics it is only existence ("esse") that may be con…Read more
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43Texts and Their InterpretationReview of Metaphysics 43 (3). 1990.IF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY studies ideas from the past, as is generally accepted, then historians of philosophy face a serious problem concerning their object of study for two reasons. In the first place, like all history, the history of philosophy is concerned with the past and we can never have direct empirical access to the past unless that past is close to us and we have taken part in it. In order to know the past in which we have not participated we must rely on the testimony of those who…Read more
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82Hispanic Philosophy: Its Beginning and Golden AgeReview of Metaphysics 46 (3). 1993.HISPANIC PHILOSOPHY. The notion of Hispanic philosophy is a useful one for trying to understand certain historical phenomena related to the philosophy developed in the Iberian peninsula, the Iberian colonies in the New World, and the countries that those colonies eventually came to form. It is useful for two reasons. First, it focuses attention on the close relations among the philosophers in these geographical areas; and second, other historical denominations and categorizations do not do justi…Read more
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Los problemas filosóficos de la individualidadRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 11 (1): 3. 1985.
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Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
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