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61Latin 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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1094What 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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44Relieving Pain and Foreseeing Death: A Paradox About Accountability and BlameJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (1): 19-25. 2000.In a familiar moral dilemma faced by physicians who care for the dying, some patients who are within days or hours of death may experience suffering in a degree that cannot be relieved by ordinary levels of analgesia. In such cases, it may sometimes be possible to honor a competent patient's request for pain relief only by giving an injection of narcotics in a dosage so large that the patient's death is thereby hastened. Doctors rightly worry that taking an action likely to result in a patient's…Read more
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11Latin American Thought: Philosophical Problems And ArgumentsWestview Press. 2002.Many of the philosophical questions raised by Latin American thinkers are problems that have concerned philosophers at different times and in different places throughout the Western tradition. But in fact the issues are not altogether the same-- for they have been adapted to capture problems presented by new circumstances, and Latin Americans have sought resolutions in ways that are indeed novel. This book explains how well-established philosophical traditions gave rise in the "New World" to a d…Read more
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140Is self-knowledge an entitlement? And why should we care?Southern Journal of Philosophy 39 (1): 143-155. 2001.
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972What Is an Ethnic Group?In Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed.), Race or Ethnicity?: On Black and Latino Identity, Cornell Univ Pr. 2007.
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12Themes 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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57Pragmatic Naturalism and the Evolutionary Quasi-Debunking of MoralityCriminal Justice Ethics 32 (2): 175-184. 2013.An important part of The Ethical Project is devoted to arguing that morality is an evolving social enterprise. Rather than a static result of natural selection, it is an ongoing social project that...
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3406Latin American PhilosophyIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: The Question of Whether There Is a Latin American Philosophy Is There Philosophy in Latin America? References Further Reading.
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160Ethical Naturalism: Current Debates (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.Ethical naturalism is narrowly construed as the doctrine that there are moral properties and facts, at least some of which are natural properties and facts. Perhaps owing to its having faced, early on, intuitively forceful objections by eliminativists and non-naturalists, ethical naturalism has only recently become a central player in the debates about the status of moral properties and facts which have occupied philosophers over the last century. It has now become a driving force in those debat…Read more
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152What's right with the open question argumentIn Susana Nuccetelli & Gary Seay (eds.), Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.Ethics . . . [is] partly analysis of what’s meant by ‘good’, ‘ought’, ‘right’, ‘wrong’, ‘valuable’, etc. And if certain analyses of these are right, then other ethical propositions, ones which aren’t analytic, wouldn’t be philosophical at all, but belong to psychology, sociology, and the theory of evolution.
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38Relieving Pain and Foreseeing Death: A Paradox about Accountability and BlameJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (1): 19-25. 2000.In a familiar moral dilemma faced by physicians who care for the dying, some patients who are within days or hours of death may experience suffering in a degree that cannot be relieved by ordinary levels of analgesia. In such cases, it may sometimes be possible to honor a competent patient's request for pain relief only by giving an injection of narcotics in a dosage so large that the patient's death is thereby hastened. Doctors rightly worry that taking an action likely to result in a patient's…Read more
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662'Latinos', 'hispanics', and 'iberoamericans': Naming or describing?Philosophical Forum 32 (2). 2001.In some ways that have been largely ignored, ethnic-group names might be similar to names of other kinds. If they are, for instance, analogous to proper names, then a correct semantic account of the latter could throw some light on how the meaning of ethnic-group names should be construed. Of course, proper names, together with definite descriptions, belong to the class of singular terms, and an influential view on the semantics of such terms was developed, at the turn of the nineteenth century,…Read more
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27Is Self‐Knowledge an Entitlement? And Why Should We Care?Southern Journal of Philosophy 39 (1): 143-155. 2001.
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