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15Teaching and Learning Indigenous Philosophy in Viral TimesTeaching Philosophy. forthcoming.The authors of this essay challenge the notion that “philosophy” is irredeemably Eurocentric by providing a series of personal, professional, and pedagogical reflections on their experience in a new graduate seminar on “Indigenous philosophy.” The authors—a graduate student, professor, and Indigenous course-facilitator—share in the fashion of “Indigenous storywork,” as outlined by Stó:lō pedagogue Jo-Ann Archibald. We begin with the instructor and how he was personally challenged to re-evaluate …Read more
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18Race, Culture, and Black Self‐DeterminationIn Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, Indiana University Press. 2009.
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Migrant, Migra, MongrelIn George Yancy (ed.), Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge, State University of New York Press. pp. 147-166. 2012.
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9The Aristotelian RobotPhilosophy Today 68 (2): 327-340. 2024.In this essay an engineer and a philosopher, after many conversations, develop an argument for why the Aristotelian version of virtue ethics is the most promising way to develop what we call artificial moral, social agents, i.e. robots. This, evidently, applies to humans as well. There are several claims: first, that humans are not born moral, they are socialized into morality; second, that morality involves affect, emotion, feeling, before it engages reason; third, that how a moral being feels …Read more
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4Return to SenderIn Donald A. Landes (ed.), Between philosophy and non-philosophy: the thought and legacy of Hugh J. Silverman, Suny Press. pp. 93-107. 2016.
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7The philosophical animal: on zoopoetics and interspecies cosmopolitanismState University of New York Press. 2024.Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.
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4Enlightened ReadersIn Corey McCall & Phillip McReynolds (eds.), Decolonizing American Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 83-109. 2020.
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13On Necropolitics: Achille Mbembe and the Critique of Black ReasonCritical Philosophy of Race 12 (1): 1-2. 2024.ABSTRACT This is a brief introduction to a special section on the work of Achille Mbembe.
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From Eclecticism to the Reconstruction of Communicative Reason: Habermas in the United StatesIn Luca Corchia, Stefan Müller-Doohm & William Outhwaite (eds.), Habermas global. Wirkungsgeschichte eines Werks, Suhrkamp. 2019.
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13Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2011.Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to look at the human relationship with animals from the critical or 'left' tradition in political and social thought. The contributions in this volume highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of oppression, violence, and domination. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of 'animal rights,' the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a po…Read more
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29Toward a New SocialismLexington Books. 2006.Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. Dr. Richard Schmitt joins with Dr. Anatole Anton to compile a volume of essays exploring the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle
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15Strangers to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Strangers to Nature brings together many of the leading scholars who are working to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. This volume will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about the human/non-human animal relationship that is currently taking place
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27Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2009.Pragmatism has been called "the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition" by its supporters and "a dog's dinner" by its detractors. While acknowledging pragmatism's direct ties to American imperialism and expansionism, Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta, and the contributors to this volume consider the role pragmatism plays, for better or worse, in current discussions of nationalism, war, race, and community. What can pragmatism contribute to understandings of a diverse nation? How can we…Read more
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63Reading Kant's Geography (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2011.Perspectives on Kant's teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding of the world.
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14Sound and affect: voice, music, world (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 2021.Studies of affect and emotions have blossomed in recent decades across the humanities, neurosciences, and social sciences. In music scholarship, they have often built on the discipline's attention to what music theorists since the Renaissance have described as music's unique ability to arouse passions in listeners. In this timely volume, the editors seek to combine this 'affective turn' with the 'sound turn' in the humanities, which has profitably shifted attention from the visual to the aural, …Read more
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14Richard Rorty’s Intellectual BiographyIn Martin Müller (ed.), Handbuch Richard Rorty, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 79-113. 2023.In this chapter I will bring together two seemingly irreconcilable aspects of Rorty’s intellectual biography: on the one hand its consistency, loyalty, and deference to what I call his “vision,” and on the other, the expansiveness, capaciousness, voraciousness, and encyclopedic thrust of that vision. I argue that in contrast to many canonical philosophers, Rorty did not undergo a turn, a “Kehre,” a shift, a revelation, a Damascus moment. Rather, when reading his epochal texts, and numerous essay…Read more
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4Chapter 1 IntroductionIn Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Power, neoliberalism, and the reinvention of politics: the critical theory of Wendy Brown, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 1-16. 2022.
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16. Existentialisms in the Hispanic and Latin American WorldsIn Jonathan Judaken & Robert Bernasconi (eds.), Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context, Columbia University Press. pp. 180-208. 2012.
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3Constitutionalism: Jurisgenesis as PolisgenesisIn Adrian Parr & Santiago Zabala (eds.), Outspoken: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 47-57. 2023.
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17The legal orthopedia of human dignityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (8): 799-815. 2014.This article develops a constructivist, non-metaphysical, non-essentialist conception of human dignity using Jeremy Waldron, Michael Rosen, Ernst Bloch, Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. This constructivist conception of dignity is then related to the communicative or reflexive conception of freedom developed by discourse ethics. Then, these two conceptions are demonstrated to be foundational for the development and implementation of human rights.
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7La dialettica della colonialità. Verso una coscienza decoloniale postsecolarela Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
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24Ein neues Interesse der Philosophie an der Religion? Zur philosophischen Bewandtnis von postsäkularem Bewusstsein und multikultureller WeltgesellschaftDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (1): 3-16. 2010.In this interview with Eduardo Mendieta, Jürgen Habermas provides his perspective on the philosophical meanings of post-secular consciousness as well as of multi-cultural global society
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19Beyond Epistemic Injustice, Toward Epistemic Outrage: On Saskia Sassen’s Analytical DestabilizationsThe Pluralist 8 (3): 96-100. 2013.
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2We Have Never Been Human, or How We Lost Our Humanity: Derrida and Habermas on CloningPhilosophy Today 47 (Supplement): 168-175. 2003.
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21We never have been human or, how we lost our humanity Derrida and Habermas on cloningPhilosophy Today 47 (5): 168-175. 2003.
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10Liberation through Jurisgenesis: On ConstitutionalismJournal of Speculative Philosophy 37 (1): 1-20. 2023.ABSTRACT This article begins with a consideration of whether the January 6, 2021, attack on the United State’s Capitol building can be considered a form of “legitimate political discourse” and compares the insurrectionists to the Black Lives Matter protest movement. Both movements, as different and antithetical as they are, raised meta-questions about how it is that we establish by means of law the forms to express dissent. It is proposed that “constitutionalism,” namely, the doctrine that the p…Read more
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