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515 Understanding Immigration as Lived Personal ExperienceIn Gregory Fernando Pappas (ed.), Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 245-261. 2011.
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25On the Value and Meaning of Football: Recent Philosophical Perspectives in Latin AmericaJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 37 (1): 69-87. 2010.(2010). On the Value and Meaning of Football: Recent Philosophical Perspectives in Latin America. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 69-87.
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23Peirce’s Prejudices against Hispanics and the Ethical Scope of His PhilosophyThe Pluralist 9 (2): 42-64. 2014.in two letters concerning the Spanish-American War of 1898, Charles Sanders Peirce openly expresses some egregious prejudices against several groups of people, including Hispanics—people of at least partly Spanish origin in the Iberian Peninsula or the Americas (L 254 and L 339; reprint, translation to Spanish, and commentary in Nubiola and Zalamea 76–811). In an undated letter to his cousin Henry Cabot Lodge, a Massachusetts politician, Peirce writes regarding the war: “I don’t believe the Span…Read more
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14Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal InteractionLexington Books. 2017.This book is a philosophical account of a Central American immigrant's personal experience in the United States. Narrative and reflective at once, it is written from the standpoint of American philosophy enriched by fiction, poetry, song lyrics and memoirs from the Americas. It recommends an ethic of love—resilient loving—for the interpersonal relations and day-to-day interactions between immigrants and hosts in the United States today.
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19Living with Immigrants in a Context of Difference: Exclusion, Assimilation, or PluralismThe Pluralist 13 (2): 109-118. 2018.in their book American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present, contemporary philosophers Erin McKenna and Scott Pratt identify "living in a context of difference" as the central philosophical issue in the history of the United States. They credit W. E. B. Du Bois with having identified racial difference as one particular version of this general issue: "Du Bois once declared that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line—the problem of the coexistence of differen…Read more
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21Heuristic analogy in Ars Conjectandi : From Archimedes' De Circuli Dimensione to Bernoulli's theoremStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 67 44-53. 2018.
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49The framing of the fundamental probability set: A historical case study on the context of mathematical discoveryPerspectives on Science 17 (4). 2009.I address the philosophical debate over whether the mathematical theory of probability arose on the basis of empirical observations or of purely theoretical speculations. The debate tends to pose a strict dichotomy between empirical problem-solving and pure theorizing. I alternatively suggest that, in the case of mathematical probability, an empirical problem-context acted as an enabling condition for the possibility of mathematical innovation, but that the activity of the early mathematical pro…Read more
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44Imagination, concentration, and generalization: Peirce on the reasoning abilities of the mathematicianTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (2): 135-156. 2009.
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55Peirce’s Philosophy of Mathematical Education: Fostering Reasoning Abilities for Mathematical InquiryStudies in Philosophy and Education 29 (5): 421-439. 2010.I articulate Charles S. Peirce’s philosophy of mathematical education as related to his conception of mathematics, the nature of its method of inquiry, and especially, the reasoning abilities required for mathematical inquiry. The main thesis is that Peirce’s philosophy of mathematical education primarily aims at fostering the development of the students’ semeiotic abilities of imagination, concentration, and generalization required for conducting mathematical inquiry by way of experimentation u…Read more
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40El Pragmatismo By Charles S. Peirce, Sara BarrenaTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (3): 512. 2010.
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30Understanding immigration as lived personal experienceIn Gregory Fernando Pappas (ed.), Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 245-261. 2011.This essay provides an account of the lived personal experience of immigration at three levels: general aims; relations to place and to other persons; and feelings and sensibility. The account is structured by Charles Peirce's phenomenological categories, but the emphasis is on describing the experience. For the experiential descriptions, the essay also relies on the work of Latin Americans such as Octavio Paz and Mario Benedetti and Anglo Americans such as Henry Thoreau, John McDermott, Jane Ad…Read more
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21Jaime Nubiola and Fernando Zalamea, Peirce y el mundo hispánico: Lo que C. S. Peirce dijo sobre España y lo que el mundo hispánico ha dicho sobre Peirce (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4): 795-801. 2007.
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30Assessing the Value of NatureEnvironmental Ethics 24 (1): 57-74. 2002.Henry David Thoreau’s discussion of the highest value of wild apples and my own reflection upon my experience, interacting with the sea and enjoying its products during my Central American upbringing, motivate this discussion of how human beings may apprehend nature’s highest worth. I propose that in order to apprehend nature’s highest value it is necessary to understand the complete transaction between human beings and nature—an active transaction that requires from the human being a continuous…Read more
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25Peirce y el mundo hipánico: Lo que CS Peirce dijo sobre España y lo que el mundo hispánico ha dicho sobre Peirce (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4): 795-801. 2007.
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48Review: El pragmatismo (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (3): 512-516. 2010.This book is a Spanish translation of two of Charles S. Peirce's late texts on pragmatism, namely, "What Pragmatism Is" (originally published in The Monist, 1905) and "Pragmatism" (MS 318, 1907).1 The essays are introduced by translator Sara Barrena, who based her edition on the texts published in The Essential Peirce.2 The introduction consists of brief sections that present a biographical sketch of Peirce; an account of his original formulation of pragmatism; a summary of its evolution into hi…Read more
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71On the distinction between Peirce’s abduction and Lipton’s Inference to the best explanationSynthese 180 (3): 419-442. 2011.I argue against the tendency in the philosophy of science literature to link abduction to the inference to the best explanation (IBE), and in particular, to claim that Peireean abduction is a conceptual predecessor to IBE. This is not to discount either abduction or IBE. Rather the purpose of this paper is to clarify the relation between Peireean abduction and IBE in accounting for ampliative inference in science. This paper aims at a proper classification—not justification—of types of scientifi…Read more
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18Assessing the Value of NatureEnvironmental Ethics 24 (1): 57-74. 2002.Henry David Thoreau’s discussion of the highest value of wild apples and my own reflection upon my experience, interacting with the sea and enjoying its products during my Central American upbringing, motivate this discussion of how human beings may apprehend nature’s highest worth. I propose that in order to apprehend nature’s highest value it is necessary to understand the complete transaction between human beings and nature—an active transaction that requires from the human being a continuous…Read more
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25Sobre Poesia e Autêntica Reflexão Filosófica: A Filosofia Americana de Octavio PazCognitio 8 (2): 179-195. 2007.
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36Philosophy of Sport in Latin AmericaJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 37 (2): 292-309. 2010.The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolution of the philosophical analysis of sport in Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. To do so, this paper identifies the main themes and the leading works that emerged throughout this period as well as their relation to regional philosophical traditions. Likewise, to situate the philosophical analysis of sport in Latin America in a broader perspective, this paper makes reference to its relation to the philosophy of sport in par…Read more
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94Peirce on the role of poietic creation in mathematical reasoningTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (3). 2007.: C.S. Peirce defines mathematics in two ways: first as "the science which draws necessary conclusions," and second as "the study of what is true of hypothetical states of things" (CP 4.227–244). Given the dual definition, Peirce notes, a question arises: Should we exclude the work of poietic hypothesis-making from the domain of pure mathematical reasoning? (CP 4.238). This paper examines Peirce's answer to the question. Some commentators hold that for Peirce the framing of mathematical hypothes…Read more
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Charles S. Peirce, El Pragmatismo, ed. and trans. Sara Barrena (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (3): 512-516. 2010.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mathematics |
Philosophy of the Americas |