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47Are Categories Invented or Discovered? A Response to FoucaultReview of Metaphysics 55 (1). 2001.IN A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS I believe the speaker is allowed more latitude than in a more ordinary speech. There is more freedom to explore and perhaps even preach. So I am going to do a bit of both. My chapter and verse, some of you will be surprised to know, is a passage from the preface to Foucault’s The Order of Things, in which he argues that categories are a matter of invention. This text has had enormous impact on the issue I wish to address today, and in many ways has helped to define it a…Read more
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44Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.__Forging People __explores the way in which Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the United States have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality, and how they have interpreted the most significant racial and ethnic labels used in Hispanic America in connection with issues of rights, nationalism, power, and identity. Following the first introductory chapter, each of the essays addresses one or more influential thinkers, ranging fro…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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43Does Philosophy Have a Role to Play in Contemporary Society?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 19-25. 2011.
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41Norman Kretzmann et al., eds. "The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism 1100-1600" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 233. 1984.
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41Cánones filosóficos y tradiciones filosóficas: El caso de la filosofía latinoamericanaAnálisis Filosófico 30 (1): 17-34. 2010.Este artículo trata sobre dos temas: cómo se establece el canon filosófico y las razones por las cuales la filosofía latinoamericana es generalmente excluida tanto del canon de la filosofía occidental como del canon de la filosofía a nivel mundial. El segundo tema permite ilustrar los problemas que surgen en el contexto del primero y proporciona una respuesta a ellos. El artículo sostiene que varias teorías que se proponen explicar la formación del canon y la exclusión de ciertos filósofos del c…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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39Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights (edited book)Routledge. 2000.The presence and impact of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States cannot be ignored. Already the largest minority group, by 2050 their numbers will exceed all the other minority groups in the United States combined. The diversity of this population is often understated, but the people differ in terms of their origin, race. language, custom, religion, political affiliation, education and economic status. The heterogeneity of the Hispanic/Latino population raises questions about their identity and…Read more
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38Hispanics, Philosophy, and the CurriculumTeaching Philosophy 22 (3): 241-248. 1999.Despite predictions that Hispanics will soon outnumber all other minority groups combined in the United States, philosophy has remained indifferent to the growing Hispanic population. This paper offers several hypotheses why this is the case, arguing that Hispanics and Hispanic thought are perceived as unphilosophical (or only narrowly philosophical) and are thus perceived as ill-suited for academia and academic discussions in the United States. The author concludes by proposing strategies for o…Read more
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38Revelation, Interpretation, and RelativismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78 (3): 492-498. 2004.
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37What the Individual Adds to the Common Nature According to SuarezNew Scholasticism 53 (2): 221-233. 1979.
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36Suárez and Metaphysical MentalismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 67 (3): 349-354. 1993.
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35Philosophy and its History: Issues in Philosophical HistoriographyState University of New York Press. 1991.A systematic and comprehensive treatment of pertinent issues, the book defends two main theses.
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35A Theory of Textuality: The Logic and EpistemologyState University of New York Press. 1995.This book is just what it says it is: A theory of textuality divided into two parts, logical and epistemological
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35A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. Provides a comprehensive "who's who" guide to medieval philosophers. Offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context followed by 140 alphabetically arranged entries on individual thinkers. Constitutes an extensively cross-referenced and indexed source. Written by a distinguished cast of philosophers. Spans the history of medieval philosophy from the fourth century AD to the…Read more
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34The Ontological Status of CategoriesInternational Philosophical Quarterly 39 (3): 249-264. 1999.
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33Individuation and the Realism/Nominalism DilemmaInternational Philosophical Quarterly 61 (4): 371-386. 2021.After reviewing various formulations of the problems of universals and individuation, this essay considers the dialectic that informs the relationship between the two. This dialectic involves a distinction between a realist theory of universals that satisfies the requirements of science but fails to account for the non-instantiability of individuals and a nominalist theory of universals that fails to satisfy the requirements of science but accounts for the non-instantiability of individuals. Ina…Read more
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33Minorities and the Philosophical MarketplaceMetaphilosophy 33 (5): 535-551. 2002.This article argues for two theses. The first is that many of the sociological factors endemic in the philosophical community function as barriers to the recruitment of members of minority groups in the profession and to their functioning as public intellectuals. The division into familial groups, the fights for security and success, and the weakness of the federal organization of the American Philosophical Association all contribute to these barriers. The second is that sociology has a place in…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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32Individuals as InstancesReview of Metaphysics 37 (1). 1983.INDIVIDUALITY has given philosophers considerable trouble. There are conflicting views as to how to understand it and even as to its intelligibility in spite of what appears to be its fundamental character in our experience. For, on the one hand, we seem to experience the world in terms of individuals, but when we try to explain what their individuality is we run into difficulties. Indeed, even a view which at first sight appears quite innocuous, defining individuality formally as a feature whic…Read more
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31Uses and abuses of the classics: Western interpretations of Greek philosophy (edited book)Ashgate. 2004.From very early on, Western philosophers have been obsessed with the understanding of a relatively few works of philosophy which have played a ...
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