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10A Companion to Latin American Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.This comprehensive collection of original essays written by an international group of scholars addresses the central themes in Latin American philosophy. Represents the most comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Latin American philosophy available today Comprises a specially commissioned collection of essays, many of them written by Latin American authors Examines the history of Latin American philosophy and its current issues, traces the development of the discipline, and offers b…Read more
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678Reference and ethnic-group termsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 47 (6). 2004.The increasingly pluralistic character of modern societies has led to questions, not only about the proper use of ethnic-group terms, but also about the correct semantic analysis of them. Here I argue that ethnic-group terms are analogous to other linguistic expressions whose extension is fixed in the way suggested by a causal theory of reference. My view accommodates precisely those scenarios of communication involving ethnic-group terms that will be seen puzzling to Fregeans. At the same time,…Read more
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77Latin American Philosophy: Metaphilosophical FoundationsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. forthcoming.
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642Ethnic-group termsIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Names or Predicates? The Semantics of Ethnic‐Group Terms Nihilism about Ethnic‐Group Terms The Political Pragmatics of Ethnic‐Group Terms References Further Reading.
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626Latin american ethicsIn Hugh LaFollete (ed.), Internationa Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. forthcoming.
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134Sosa's Moore and the new dogmatistsMetaphilosophy 40 (2): 180-186. 2009.Abstract: Some seventy years ago, G. E. Moore invoked his own sensory experience (as of a hand before him in the right circumstances), added some philosophical analysis about externality, and took himself to have offered his "Proof" of the existence of an external world. Current neo-Mooreans either reject completely the standard negative assessment of the Proof or qualify it substantially. For Sosa, the Proof can be persuasive, but only when read literally as offering reasons for the conclusion …Read more
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81Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson – Ian RavenscroftPhilosophical Quarterly 61 (244): 642-645. 2011.
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496Knowing that one knows what one is talking aboutIn New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge, Mit Press. pp. 169--184. 2003.Twin-earth thought experiments, standardly construed, support the externalist doctrine that the content of propositional attitudes involving natural-kind terms supervenes upon properties external to those who entertain them. But this doctrine in conjunction with a common view of self-knowledge might have the intolerable consequence that substantial propositions concerning the environment could be knowable a priori. Since both doctrines, externalism and privileged self-knowledge, appear independe…Read more
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57Abortion for fetal defects: two current argumentsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 20 (3): 447-450. 2017.A common utilitarian argument in favor of abortion for fetal defects rests on some controversial assumptions about what counts as a life worth living. Yet critics of abortion for fetal defects are also in need of an argument free from controversial assumptions about the future child's quality of life. Christopher Kaczor (in: Kaczor (ed), The ethics of abortion: women's rights, human life, and the question of justice, Routledge, New York, 2011) has devised an analogy that apparently satisfies thi…Read more
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592Does Semantic Naturalism Rest on a Mistake?In Nuccetelly & Seay Susana & Gary (ed.), Ethical Naturalism: Current Debates, Cambridge University Press. 2011.More than a century ago, G. E. Moore famously attempted to refute ethical naturalism by offering the so-called open question argument (OQA), also charging that all varieties of ethical naturalism commit the naturalistic fallacy. Although there is consensus that OQA and the naturalistic-fallacy charge both fail, OQA is sometimes vindicated, but only as an argument against naturalistic semantic analyses. The naturalistic-fallacy charge, by contrast, usually finds no takers at all. This paper provi…Read more
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138Reasoning, Normativity, and Experimental PhilosophyAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 49 (2). 2012.The development of modern science, as everybody knows, has come largely through naturalizing domains of inquiry that were historically parts of philosophy. Theories based on mere speculation about matters empirical, such as Aristotle‟s view about teleology in nature, were replaced with law-based, predictive explanatory theories that invoked empirical data as supporting evidence. Although philosophers have, by and large, applauded such developments, inquiry into normative domains presents a diffe…Read more
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60Latin American Philosophers: Some Recent Challenges to Their Intellectual CharacterInformal Logic 36 (2): 121-135. 2016.For Latin American philosophers, the quality of their own philosophy is a recurrent issue. Why hasn’t it produced any internationally recognized figure, tradition, or movement? Why is it mostly unknown inside and outside Latin America? Although skeptical answers to these questions are not new, they have recently shifted to some critical-thinking competences and dispositions deemed necessary for successful philosophical theorizing. Latin American philosophers are said to lack, for example, origin…Read more
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136Is "Latin American Thought" Philosophy?Metaphilosophy 34 (4): 524-536. 2003.A durable question in Latin American thought is whether it could amount to a characteristically Latin American philosophy. I argue that, if, as is now widely conceded, there is a role for philosophical analysis in thinking about problems that arise in applied subjects, such as bioethics, environmental ethics, and feminism, then why not also in Latin American thought? After all, the focus of Hispanic thinkers has often been upon the issues that arise in their own experiences of the world, and the…Read more
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463Latin American Feminist PhilosophyIn Kinsbruner Jay (ed.), Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Charles Scribner’s Sons. 2008.
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251Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2007.These thirteen original essays, whose authors include some of the world's leading philosophers, examine themes from the work of the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore (1873-1958), and demonstrate his considerable continuing influence on philosophical debate. Part I bears on epistemological topics, such as skepticism about the external world, the significance of common sense, and theories of perception. Part II is devoted to themes in ethics, such as Moore's open question argument, his non-natural…Read more
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174New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge (edited book)MIT Press. 2003.This book shows that the debate over the compatibility of externalism and self-knowledge has led to the investigation of a variety of topics, including the a...
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75Latin American Philosophy: An Introduction with Readings (edited book)Prentice-Hall. 2003.For undergraduate/graduate courses in Latin American Philosophy, Latin American Thought, Multicultural Philosophy, Latino Culture and Civilization, and Hispanic Culture and Civilization in the Departments of Philosophy, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Romance Languages, and Chicano Studies. The most comprehensive anthology in its field, 'Latin American philosophy' offers the reflections of Latin American thinkers on the nature of philosophy, justice, human rights, cultural identity, a…Read more
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1092What anti-individualists cannot know a prioriAnalysis 59 (1): 48-51. 1999.Note first that knowledge of one's own thought-contents would not count as a priori according to the usual criteria for knowledge of this kind. Surely, then, incompatibilists are using this term to refer to some other, stipulatively defined, epistemic property. But could this be, as suggested by McKinsey { 1 99 1: 9), the property of being knowable 'just by thinking' or 'from the armchair'? Certainly not if these were metaphors for knowledge attainable on the basis of reason alone, since self-kn…Read more
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