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63Pragmatism in the Americas (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2011.The book will prove an invaluable source for philosophers and philosophy students, as well as for scholars from other disciplines (e.g., history, political science, sociology, diversity studies, and gender and race studies) to begin understanding the dynamic relationship in thinking between the two Americas. In addition to documenting the results of a new and thriving area of research, it can also function as a primer to direct and provoke further inquiry. Its essays, from North American, Spanis…Read more
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60John Dewey's Radical Logic: The Function of the Qualitative in ThinkingTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 52 (3): 435. 2016.Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. In his later works, more specifically in his seminal 1930 essay “Qualitative Thought”, John Dewey questioned some of the traditional assumptions about the nature and function of the qualitative in inquiry. Dewey foresaw what recent scientific accounts of human thinking are confirming: it is more complex, less linear, more emotional, affective, bodily-based, non-reflecti…Read more
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48Dewey and Feminism: The Affective and Relationships in Dewey's EthicsHypatia 8 (2). 1993.Dewey provides an ethics that is committed to those aspects of experience that have been associated with the "feminine." In addition to an argument against the devaluation of the affective and of concrete relationships, we also find in Dewey's ethics a thoughtful appreciation of how and why these things are essential to our moral life. In this article I consider the importance of the affective and of relationships in Dewey's ethics and set out aspects of Dewey's ethics that might be useful resou…Read more
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"John Dewey and the Contemporary 'Deliberative Turn' in Political Theory"Southwest Philosophical Studies 30 (1). 2008.
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28To Be or to Do. John Dewey and the Great Divide in EthicsHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 14 (4). 1997.
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24REVIEW: T ranslated, and with an introduction by R amon D el C astillo. LA OPINION PUBLICA Y SUS PROBLEMAS (SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS)..(Madrid: Ediciones Morata, 2004) (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (4): 868-870. 2005.
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259El punto de partida de la filosofía en Risieri Frondizi y el pragmatismoAnuario Filosófico 40 (89): 319-342. 2007.The work of Risieri Frondizi is an important historical and philosophical connection between the Hispanic world and American philosophy. Frondizi shares with the classical American pragmatists, especially with John Dewey, the same criticism of the starting point of modern philosophy, and a defense of ‘experience’ as the proper basis for any philosophical inquiry. Moreover, Frondizi can be read as making significant and original contributions to the history of doctrines such as pragmatism, which …Read more
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1A Pragmatist Ethics of BeliefDissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 1990.I attempt to find an adequate answer to the two following basic issues of an ethics of belief: How do we determine what we ought to believe? What dispositions and abilities ought one to develop in order to lead a responsible "doxastic life"? I consider first how the traditional but still predominant view is in need of a radical revision and then propose a new and more promising pragmatic position. ;In an introductory chapter I elucidate the scope, richness, and contemporary relevance of the abov…Read more
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64The Pragmatists' Approach to InjusticeThe Pluralist 11 (1): 58-77. 2016.there has been a recent resurgence of pragmatism1 in sociopolitical theory, one in which pragmatism is presented as offering an alternative and promising approach to nonideal theories of justice. This may seem ironic since the record of the classical pragmatists on being explicit about justice or the injustices of their time in their philosophical corpus is a mixed one at best. However, this has not stopped recent philosophers from continuing to draw from the philosophical resources in this trad…Read more
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10Peirce y OrtegaAnuario Filosófico 29 (56): 1225-1238. 1996.There are remarkable similarities in the philosophical starting points and conclusions of Peirce and Ortega, in spite of the fact that they belong to different intellectual and cultural traditions. In this paper a common topic, central to their pragmatic view, is studied: the distinction between indubitable and doubtable beliefs, between "creencias" and "ideas"
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89Jorge Gracia’s philosophical perspective on Hispanic identityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 27 (2): 20-28. 2001.
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171Dewey and latina lesbians on the Quest for purityJournal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (2): 152-161. 2001.
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Some great figuresIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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25Was Risieri Frondizi a Hispanic pragmatist?In Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. 2011.Risieri Frondizi was arguably the Latin American philosopher with the strongest personal ties to philosophy in North America. His relation with North American philosophers was key to his philosophical development. Frondizi won a scholarship to do advanced studies at Columbia University in New York. This chapter explores Frondizi's thought and questions whether his philosophy was consonant enough with the core philosophical insights of pragmatism to consider him part of the pragmatist family.
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34The Latino character of American pragmatismIn Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. 2011.This chapter makes the claim that pragmatism is a philosophy that affirms and reflects values that are predominant and are cherished by Latin, not North American culture. It breaks the thesis up into five parts. They include an exploration of philosophy and culture, the values and vices of Anglo-Saxon and Latin culture, pragmatism, Anglo vices and Latin traits, pragmatism and the balance of America, and a Latinization of America.
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29Open-Mindedness and Courage: Complementary Virtues of PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (2). 1996.
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James Campbell. "The Community Reconstructs" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 8 (3): 236. 1994.
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24A Re-Examination of Browning’s View of ExperienceSouthwest Philosophy Review 11 (9999): 97-108. 1995.
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12What Difference Can “Experience” Make to Pragmatism?European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2). 2014.The centrality of “experience” for Pragmatism has been challenged. Neopragmatists insinuate that experienced-centered pragmatists (ECP) are conservative in hanging on to a passé philosophical notion. This paper argues that, on the contrary, ECP continue to insist on experience because of its present relevance and its future potential for philosophy, but this requires understanding what the classical figures were trying to accomplish with the notion of experience. In the first section I remind re…Read more
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20REVIEW: T ranslated, and with an introduction by R amon D el C astillo. LA OPINION PUBLICA Y SUS PROBLEMAS (SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS)..(Madrid: Ediciones Morata, 2004) (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (4): 868-870. 2005.
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19John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis, eds. A Companion to Pragmatism. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2006. xii + 431 pp. Cloth ISBN 1-4051-1621-8 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 4 (2): 120-123. 2007.
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32Dewey's Moral Theory: Experience as MethodTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33 (3). 1997.
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40Saving identity from postmodernism? The normalization of constructivism in International RelationsContemporary Political Theory 9 (2): 171-199. 2010.International Relations's intellectual history is almost always treated as a history of ideas in isolation from both those discursive and political economies which provide its disciplinary and wider context. This paper contributes to this wider analysis by focusing on the impact of the field's discursive economy. Specifically, using Foucaultian archaeologico-genealogical strategy of problematization to analyse the emergence and disciplinary trajectories of Constructivism in IR, this paper argues…Read more
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65What would John Dewey say about Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Experimentalism?Contemporary Pragmatism 9 (2): 57-74. 2012.
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The Latino Character of American PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (1): 93-112. 1998.
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61John Dewey's Ethics: Democracy as ExperienceIndiana University Press. 2008.John Dewey, widely known as "America's philosopher," provided important insights into education and political philosophy, but surprisingly never set down a complete moral or ethical philosophy. Gregory Fernando Pappas presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Dewey's ethics. By providing a pluralistic account of moral life that is both unified and coherent, Pappas considers ethics to be key to an understanding of Dewey's other philosophical insights, especially his views on de…Read more
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