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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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189The transcendentals in the middle ages: An introductionTopoi 11 (2): 113-120. 1992.Although most predicates may be truthfully predicated of only some beings, there are others that seem to apply to every being. The latter, including being itself, were known as the transcendentals in the Middle Ages and gave rise to the much disputed doctrine of the transcendentals. This article explores the main tenets of the doctrine and the difficulties that they face, the reasons why scholastic authors were interested in these issues, and the origins of the doctrine.
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68Latin American philosophy for the 21st century: the human condition, values, and the search for identity (edited book)Prometheus Books. 2004.Twenty-two leading Latin American philosophers are featured in this complete anthology on the human condition, values, and the search for identity. Bibliography.
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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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25Call for Papers for'SORITES'SORITES is a new refereed all-English electronic international quarterly of analytical philosophyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (2). 1995.
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21That Most Subtle Question (Quaestio Subtilissima) (review)Review of Metaphysics 39 (4): 770-772. 1986.This book is the latest step in the development of a scholarly program whose origin goes back at least twenty years to the publication of Henry's The "De Grammatico" of St. Anselm: The Theory of Paronymy. Other major steps in the same direction are the publications of The Logic of St. Anselm, Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and Commentary on "De Grammatico". The program involves two general theses: the demonstration of the value of medieval contributions to both metaphysics and logic, and the cl…Read more
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Individuation in Scholasticism. The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation 1150-1650Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (4): 530-531. 1999.
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5Notes on Ortega's Aesthetic Works in EnglishThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 11 (3): 117. 1977.
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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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23The Centrality of the Individual in the Philosophy of the Fourteenth CenturyHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 8 (3). 1991.
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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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21Language priority in the education of children: Pogge's argument in favor of English-first for hispanicsJournal of Social Philosophy 35 (3). 2004.
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412For many years I have maintained that I learned to philosophize by translating Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputation V from Latin into English. This surely is a claim that must sound extraordinary to the members of this audience or even to most twentieth century philosophers. Who reads Suárez these days? And what could I learn from a sixteenth century scholastic writer that would help me in the twentieth century? I would certainly be surprised if one were to find any references to some of …Read more
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17Scotus's Conception of Metaphysics: The Study of the TranscendentalsFranciscan Studies 56 (1): 153-168. 1998.
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Frondizi's Theory of the Self as a Dynamic Gestalt (review)Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 57 (1): 64. 1976.
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Risieri Frondizi's "Introducción a las problemas fundamentales del hombre" (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 39 (4): 610. 1979.
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El concepto de filosofía hispánica: identidad sin propiedadCuadernos de Pensamiento Español 7 5-44. 1998.
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32Minorities 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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60Philosophy in American Public LifeThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 11 129-140. 2001.My focus here is on two questions: Does philosophy have a place in contemporary American public life? and should philosophy have a place in American public life? Because my answer to the first question is negative, I also will discuss some of the reasons why I believe philosophy does not play a role in American public life. I suggest that philosophers have been excluded from the public conversation in part because the work of philosophy entails criticism and challenge—activities best accomplishe…Read more
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12Importance of the History of Ideas in Latin America: Zea's Positivism in MexicoThe Impact of Metaphysics on Latin American IdeologyJournal of the History of Ideas 36 (1): 177. 1975.
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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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