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4063On What There 'Is': Aristotle and the Aztecs on Being and ExistenceAPA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 18 (1): 11-23. 2018.A curious feature of Aztec philosophy is that the basic metaphysical question of the “Western” tradition cannot be formulated in their language, in Nahuatl. This did not, however, prevent the Aztecs from developing an account of 'reality', or whatever it is that might exist. The article is the first of its kind to compare the work of Aristotle on ousia (being) and the Aztecs on teotl and ometeotl. Through this analysis, it suggests that both of the Nahuatl terms are fundamental for expressing th…Read more
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1478Eudaimonia and Neltiliztli: Aristotle and the Aztecs on the Good LifeAPA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 16 (2): 10-21. 2017.This essay takes a first step in comparative ethics by looking to Aristotle and the Aztec's conceptions of the good life. It argues that the Aztec conception of a rooted life, neltiliztli, functions for ethical purposes in a way that is like Aristotle's eudaimonia. To develop this claim, it not only shows just in what their conceptions of the good consist, but also in what way the Aztecs conceived of the virtues (in qualli, in yectli).
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758Phenomenology of a Photograph, or: How to use an Eidetic PhenomenologyPhaenEx 5 (1): 12-40. 2010.The present article aims to make good on Roland Barthe’s unfulfilled promise to provide an eidetic phenomenology for the photograph. Though the matter deserves consideration simply because no relevant account has yet been provided, the consequences of adumbrating eight eidetic features, we hope to show, bear directly on the phenomenology of time, the possibility of technological events, and the status of truth as what Heidegger called alētheia . Finally, and most importantly for the enterprise o…Read more
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423After Hermeneutics?Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2): 160-179. 2010.Recently Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux have attacked the core of the phenomenological hermeneutic tradition: its commitment to the finitude of human understanding. If accurate, this critique threatens to render the whole tradition a topic of merely historical interest. Given the depth of the criticism, this essay aims to establish a provisional defense of hermeneutics. After briefly reviewing each critique, it is argued that Badiou and Meillassoux themselves face rather intractable diffic…Read more
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42The way toward wisdom: An interdisciplinary and intercultural introduction to metaphysics. By Benedict M. Ashley, O.p.: Book reviews (review)Heythrop Journal 50 (4): 747-748. 2009.
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18"Review of" What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on The Whiteness Question" (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (1): 16. 2008.
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17Review of “Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion” (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (1): 17. 2008.
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4Review of What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on The Whiteness Question, ed. George Yancy (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (1): 162-167. 2008.
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2Review of Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion, ed. Kevin Hart (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (1): 168-177. 2008.