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4Inter-American Philosophy y El FuturoThe Pluralist 20 (1): 108-116. 2025.From American Empire to América Cósmica through Philosophy: Prospero’s Reflection is the culmination of MacMullan’s research on a broader conception of American Philosophy. The expanded notion of “American” Philosophy not only makes sense, but it is one of the most promising present ventures in dealing with the lives and problems of people across the Americas. The book opens an important dialogue between the American pragmatist traditions and Latin American philosophers who have been ignored, su…Read more
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26American 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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The Latino Character of American PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (1): 93-112. 1998.
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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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34Open-Mindedness and Courage: Complementary Virtues of PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (2). 1996.
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40Dewey's Moral Theory: Experience as MethodTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33 (3). 1997.
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36Dewey's Metaphysics: A Response to Richard GaleTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (4). 2004.
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35To Be or to Do. John Dewey and the Great Divide in EthicsHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 14 (4). 1997.
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7Why 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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8New 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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52Remembering 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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57An 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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75John Dewey's Ethics: Democracy as ExperienceIndiana University Press. 2008.John Dewey, widely known as "America's philosopher," provided important insights into education and political philosophy, but surprisingly never set down a complete moral or ethical philosophy. Gregory Fernando Pappas presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Dewey's ethics. By providing a pluralistic account of moral life that is both unified and coherent, Pappas considers ethics to be key to an understanding of Dewey's other philosophical insights, especially his views on de…Read more
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52A Re-Examination of Browning’s View of ExperienceSouthwest Philosophy Review 11 (9999): 97-108. 1995.
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50Saving identity from postmodernism? The normalization of constructivism in International RelationsContemporary Political Theory 9 (2): 171-199. 2010.International Relations's intellectual history is almost always treated as a history of ideas in isolation from both those discursive and political economies which provide its disciplinary and wider context. This paper contributes to this wider analysis by focusing on the impact of the field's discursive economy. Specifically, using Foucaultian archaeologico-genealogical strategy of problematization to analyse the emergence and disciplinary trajectories of Constructivism in IR, this paper argues…Read more
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74Pragmatism 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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58Zapatismo, 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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36Was Risieri Frondizi a Hispanic pragmatist?In Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. 2011.Risieri Frondizi was arguably the Latin American philosopher with the strongest personal ties to philosophy in North America. His relation with North American philosophers was key to his philosophical development. Frondizi won a scholarship to do advanced studies at Columbia University in New York. This chapter explores Frondizi's thought and questions whether his philosophy was consonant enough with the core philosophical insights of pragmatism to consider him part of the pragmatist family.
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94What would John Dewey say about Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Experimentalism?Contemporary Pragmatism 9 (2): 57-74. 2012.
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43What 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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710 Was Risieri Frondizi a Hispanic Pragmatist?In Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 156-169. 2011.
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117The 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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44The Latino character of American pragmatismIn Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. 2011.This chapter makes the claim that pragmatism is a philosophy that affirms and reflects values that are predominant and are cherished by Latin, not North American culture. It breaks the thesis up into five parts. They include an exploration of philosophy and culture, the values and vices of Anglo-Saxon and Latin culture, pragmatism, Anglo vices and Latin traits, pragmatism and the balance of America, and a Latinization of America.
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1311 The Latino Character of American PragmatismIn Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 170-184. 2011.
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116Review: 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.