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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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16Remembering Grayson Douglas Browning (1929–2023)The Pluralist 19 (1): 106-107. 2024.Browning, 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 Association in 1967, and of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 1972.He was not only a member of the Society for Advancement of America Philosophy; he en…Read more
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9An 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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9Leonard 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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60The 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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811 The Latino Character of American PragmatismIn Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 170-184. 2011.
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316 Dewey and Latina Lesbians on the Quest for PurityIn Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 262-273. 2011.
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410 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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32Jazz 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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22What 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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93The 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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23The 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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13ILA AND JOHN MELLOW PRIZE: The Pragmatists’ Approach to InjusticeThe Pluralist 11 (1): 58-77. 2016.
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55Review: Translated, and with an introduction by Ramon Del Castillo. 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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20La metafilosofía de los pragmatistas clásicosDiscusiones Filosóficas 11 (17): 205-222. 2010.E n e s t e e n s a y o a r g u me n t o q u e l ametafilosofía de los pragmatistas es lacontribución más importante de estosf i l ós of os a l a hi s t or i a de l a f i l os of í ay es t ambi én l o que l os di st i ngue deot ros f i l ósof os. Los f i l ósof os cl ási cosamericanos y losfilósofos pragmatistas hispanos, Ortegay Gasset y Risieri Frondizi, propusieronque l a f i l osof í a debe de part i r desdel a experi enci a, es deci r, un punt o departida práctico. Despues de explicar quési…Read more
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68Dewey’s Philosophical Approach to Racial PrejudiceSocial Theory and Practice 22 (1): 47-65. 1996.
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29Dewey's Metaphysics: A Response to Richard GaleTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (4). 2004.
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36Zapatismo, Luis Villoro, and American Pragmatism on Democracy, Power, and InjusticeThe Pluralist 12 (1): 85-100. 2017.pragmatism has been appropriated and welcomed in Latin America because there is much prior practice and circumstance that makes for a good fit, and not simply because it was an external solution to local problems. In fact, many developments have already occurred in Latin America that, although not directly influenced by John Dewey, are better examples of his methods and ideas than what occurs north of the Rio Grande.1 Indeed, when Dewey was in Mexico, he was impressed with their educational refo…Read more
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62Pragmatism in the Americas (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2011.The book will prove an invaluable source for philosophers and philosophy students, as well as for scholars from other disciplines (e.g., history, political science, sociology, diversity studies, and gender and race studies) to begin understanding the dynamic relationship in thinking between the two Americas. In addition to documenting the results of a new and thriving area of research, it can also function as a primer to direct and provoke further inquiry. Its essays, from North American, Spanis…Read more
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56John 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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46Dewey 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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