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453This article claims that communication within the same culture in the present and with the past and communication across cultures pose serious methodological challenges for philosophers. These challenges are particularly obvious when we engage in comparative philosophy between East and West. However, if (1) we understand philosophy as a discipline involved in problem solving, and (2) we use the Framework Approach advocated in this article, such communication does not seem impossible. Of course, …Read more
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111Suárez and the doctrine of the transcendentalsTopoi 11 (2): 121-133. 1992.This article discusses Suárez''s views concerning the transcendentals, that is, being and those attributes of it that extend to everything. In particular it explores Suárez''s notion of transcendentality and the way in which he conceived the transcendental attributes of being are related to it. It makes two claims: First, that Suárez has an intensional, rather than an extensional understanding of transcendentality; and, second, that Suárez''s understanding of truth and goodness, as expressing re…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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3Race, ethnicity, and nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a thoughtIn Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought, University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.
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David Wiggins: Sameness and Substance (review)Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 9 (1): 73. 1983.
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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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57The Ontological Status of CategoriesInternational Philosophical Quarterly 39 (3): 249-264. 1999.
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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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1Identity and philosophyIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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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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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |