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Why Are Hispanic Philosophers Marginalized In The American Philosophical Community?In George Yancy (ed.), Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge, State University of New York Press. pp. 167-180. 2012.
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1New Directions and Uses in the Reconstruction of Dewey’s EthicsIn William J. Gavin (ed.), In Dewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction, State University of New York Press. pp. 41-61. 2003.
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28Remembering Grayson Douglas Browning (1929–2023)The Pluralist 19 (1): 106-107. 2024.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Remembering Grayson Douglas Browning (1929–2023)Gregory Pappas, David Hildebrand, and William T. MyersBrowning, Grayson Douglas was born on March 7, 1929, in Seminole, Oklahoma.He received his PhD from the University Texas, Austin, 1958, where he returned later in 1972 to become its Philosophy Department chairman for four years.He was president of the Southwestern Philosophical Association in 1977, of the Florida Philosophical Associ…Read more
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29An Unconscious Dimension of Thinking, Situations, and La Vida: Reflections on Bethany Henning's Dewey and the Aesthetic UnconsciousThe Pluralist 19 (1): 84-89. 2024.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:An Unconscious Dimension of Thinking, Situations, and La Vida:Reflections on Bethany Henning's Dewey and the Aesthetic UnconsciousGregory Pappasthis book is doing different related and valuable things. First, Bethany Henning explores a neglected dimension of Dewey's thought. In particular, the book inquires into the dimension of the unconscious and tries to develop what she considers an "implicit" "theory of the unconsciousness" or o…Read more
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10Leonard Harris’s Insurrectionist “Challenge” to PragmatismIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Darryl Scriven (eds.), Insurrectionist Ethics. Radical Perspectives on Social Justice, Palgrave. pp. 197-212. 2023.Leonard Harris’s work on Alain Locke and insurrectionism are invaluable contributions to American philosophy, but for some reason his “insurrectionist challenge to Pragmatism” gets the most attention; it presses Pragmatism to show how it can facilitate insurrection and revolt against moral abominations such as oppression, racism, and slavery. For some, the implication of the challenge is that Pragmatism and insurrectionism are incompatible; for others, there is still hope that at least future Pr…Read more
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11The Narrative and Identity of Pragmatism in America: The History of a Dysfunctional Family?The Pluralist 9 (2): 65-83. 2014.we have recently seen the publication of several books on the narrative and identity of Pragmatism. Perhaps this is a sign that, after the first decade of the twenty-first century, scholars of Pragmatism now have the required distance or historical perspective to be confident about the history of Pragmatism in the twentieth century. In this paper, I examine the narratives of Pragmatism in Richard Bernstein’s The Pragmatic Turn and Colin Koopman’s Pragmatism as Transition.1 In spite of their diff…Read more
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911 The Latino Character of American PragmatismIn Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 170-184. 2011.
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416 Dewey and Latina Lesbians on the Quest for PurityIn Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 262-273. 2011.
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510 Was Risieri Frondizi a Hispanic Pragmatist?In Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 156-169. 2011.
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19American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present by Erin McKenna and Scott L. PrattTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 57 (1): 130-137. 2021.American Philosophy is the first introduction to the tradition of American philosophy that frames the history of the philosophical ideas in the history of America. This is an extraordinary accomplishment that is long overdue. The book tells the story of a philosophical tradition that is shaped by, and critically reacts to, major events in the history of the USA. In their introduction, McKenna and Pratt explain what the American philosophical tradition stood for. For many of the philosophers ment…Read more
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34Jazz and Philosophical Contrapunteo_: Philosophies of _La Vida in the Americas on Behalf of Radical DemocracyThe Pluralist 16 (1): 1-25. 2021.the saap 2020 conference in mexico is the culmination of an internal and gradual transformation in SAAP that has taken many years. I came to this organization as a graduate student. I was then the only Latino and Leonard Harris the only African American philosopher in SAAP. Thanks to the efforts of many scholars and presidents, SAAP has come to recognize the important philosophical contributions of female, African American, Indigenous, and Latinx philosophers. Let's not take for granted how we g…Read more
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8Equity and resource allocation in health careMedicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 6 (1): 71. 2003.Letter to the editor.
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23What Is Going On? Where Do We Go from Here? Should the Souls of White Folks Be Saved?The Pluralist 13 (1): 67-80. 2018.in "whites: made in america," the Rev. Thandeka takes on the issues that have recently been in the minds of many Americans in light of racial problems and the shocking results of the elections: "What is going on?" She does not pretend to provide a full diagnosis, but argues that there is a need for a new conceptual shift and new target of our inquiries. Thandeka argues that underneath the veil of whiteness, there are troublesome feelings and emotions that need to be revealed and, if possible, tr…Read more
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96The Limitations and Dangers of Decolonial PhilosophiesRadical Philosophy Review 20 (2): 265-295. 2017.In this essay I pay homage to one of the most important but neglected philosophers of liberation in Latin America, Luis Villoro, by considering what possible lessons we can learn from his philosophy about how to approach injustices in the Americas. Villoro was sympathetic to liberatory-leftist philosophies but he became concerned with the direction they took once they grew into philosophical movements centered on shared beliefs or on totalizing theories that presume global explanatory power. The…Read more
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24The Centrality of Dewey's Lectures in China to his Socio-Political PhilosophyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (1): 7. 2017.The recent discovery of the original manuscript Dewey wrote in preparation to his Lectures in China is an opportunity to revisit the question of what are the key texts in Dewey’s socio-political philosophy. The assumption in Dewey’s scholarship and teaching has been that The Public and its Problems or his other books on Liberalism are the main texts to be read.1 While these texts are important, much that is fundamental and that distinguishes Dewey’s approach from others would be missed without r…Read more
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18ILA AND JOHN MELLOW PRIZE: The Pragmatists’ Approach to InjusticeThe Pluralist 11 (1): 58-77. 2016.
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58John 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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