Juan Garcia Torres

One of my research foci is Leibniz’s interrelated views on freedom, agency, responsibility, and metaphysics of modality. In Latin American philosophy, my research revolves around freedom, liberation, authenticity, and ethnic identity. I am particularly interested in the way these notions emerge in the early twentieth century, when much of Latin American philosophy was re-defining itself independently of, and often in explicit opposition to, the philosophical currents originating in Europe which had dominated Latin American thinking until then.