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16Can There be Romantic Love Without Jealousy?History of Philosophy Quarterly 41 (2): 185-205. 2024.This article examines the exchange between Montoro and Sor Juana about the nature of jealousy and its connection with romantic love. First, it shows that, while Montoro's position echoes Augustine's view of love, Sor Juana's position has strong parallels with views held in the courtly love tradition. Second, the article considers Sor Juana's responses to Montoro, which aim to establish that jealousy is not inherently wrong (as Montoro holds) and that it cannot be severed from love. Finally, the …Read more
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71Ekphrastic Moral Mirrors in New Spain: Sor Juana’s Neptuno Alegórico and Sigüenza’s Theatro de Virtudes PolíticasJournal of Modern Philosophy 6 1-25. 2024.The goal of this paper is to argue that the Neptuno Alegórico and the Theatro de Virtudes Políticas, which were composed in 1680 by the Novohispanic philosophers Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to accompany respectively two arches erected to celebrate the entry of the Spanish viceroy to Mexico City, are notable not only as examples of panegyrical Baroque literature but also as philosophical texts aimed at moral exhortation. To be specific, I argue that the Neptuno and …Read more
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65Ekphrastic Moral Mirrors in New Spain: : Sor Juana’s Neptuno Alegórico and Sigüenza’s Theatro de Virtudes PolíticasJournal of Modern Philosophy 6 1-25. 2024.The goal of this paper is to argue that the Neptuno Alegórico and the Theatro de Virtudes Políticas, which were composed in 1680 by the Novohispanic philosophers Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to accompany respectively two arches erected to celebrate the entry of the Spanish viceroy to Mexico City, are notable not only as examples of panegyrical Baroque literature but also as philosophical texts aimed at moral instruction. To be specific, I argue that the Neptuno and …Read more
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14Review of Sino peripatético. Un despertar americano by Daniel Campos Badilla (review)Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 14 (2): 52-55. 2023.
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46The Socratic Pedagogy of Sor Juana Inés de la CruzIn Karen Detlefsen & Lisa Shapiro (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 479-492. 2023.
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57Responding to microaggression with irony: The case of Sor Juana Inés de la CruzJournal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.This paper examines the life and work of the Novohispanic philosopher Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who used a great deal of irony to respond to what, we argue, were gender-based microaggressions in 17th century New Spain. The case of Sor Juana is particularly interesting not only because it suggests that microaggressions are not the product of our time, as has been suggested in the literature, but also because it reveals some of the advantages as well as limitations of using irony when one is sub…Read more
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23Vicente Riva Palacio's Mexican Insurrectionist EthicsIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Darryl Scriven (eds.), Insurrectionist Ethics. Radical Perspectives on Social Justice, Palgrave. pp. 89-105. 2023.In this chapter, I argue that the insurrectionist ethics initially articulated by Leonard Harris, and further developed by other scholars such as Lee McBride III, Jacoby Carter, and Kristie Dotson, can fruitfully be deployed to understand how resistance movements and liberatory struggles have been framed in Mexico by some prominent intellectuals. To be more precise, I argue that one can read the historical work México a través de los siglos. El Virreinato from the nineteenth century Mexican hist…Read more
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195Two models of deliberative democratic multiculturalism: Benhabib and VilloroJournal of Mexican Philosophy 2 (1): 71-82. 2023.Contrasting two models of deliberative democratic multiculturalism, one by Seyla Benhabib and another by Luis Villoro, this paper contends that the differences between these two models outweigh the similarities, and that Villoro’s model is more promising insofar as it preserves the trust required in the institutions that mediate democratic deliberation in multicultural societies.
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22Pragmatist transcendence, solidarity and the threat of illiberalism. Comments on Tracy Llanera's Richard Rorty: Outgrowing modern nihilism (review)Philosophical Forum 53 (2): 135-138. 2022.The Philosophical Forum, EarlyView.
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30Collective Inferiority Complex as Disability: Samuel Ramos' Analysis of the Mexican PsycheIn Nate Whelan-Jackson & Daniel J. Brunson (eds.), Disability and American Philosophies, Routledge. pp. 9-24. 2022.
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17Philosophy in Public Life in the Latin American and Latinx traditions: Mexico and ArgentinaIn Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 75-85. 2022.Latin American and Latinx philosophers have a long and rich history of deep engagement in public life through a variety of different projects and venues. This chapter offers a brief survey of the historical development and practice of philosophy in public life in Latin American and Latinx traditions. Because of their unique histories, it engages public philosophy in Mexico and Argentina separately. The chapter shows that a guiding thread in Argentinian public philosophy is a deep‐rooted concern …Read more
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30Reflections on Brutality, Culture and PersonhoodRadical Philosophy Review 24 (2): 231-237. 2021.
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61I-Representations as Mental Currency: Reading Huw Price through Andrés BelloTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 57 (1): 89-113. 2021.Following the line of thought articulated by Gallegos-Ordorica (2019), the main goal of this article is to argue that the 19th century Venezuelan-Chilean polymath Andrés Bello should be included within the history of the pragmatist tradition as an important precursor insofar as his masterpiece, Filosofía del Entendimiento (Philosophy of the Understanding), exhibits many views and attitudes that are characteristic of pragmatism. A second and narrower goal of this article is to show that the speci…Read more
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32Arte culinario y creación poética en Sor Juana Inés de la CruzCritica 53 (157). 2021.En el presente artículo, exploramos las conexiones que existen entre el arte culinario y la obra poética de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. En particular, usamos un estudio detallado de las analogías que emergen entre la comida y la preparación culinaria por un lado, y la poesía y la composición poética, por otro lado. En este artículo mostramos que el arte culinario funciona como causa o catalizador de la creación poética y que existe una relación íntima y profunda entre el buen sazón, lo bello, y e…Read more
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34Arte culinario y creación poética en Sor Juana Inés de la CruzCritica 53 (157): 13-44. 2021.In this paper, we explore the connections between the culinary art and the poetic work by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In particular, following a detailed study of the analogies between, on the one hand, food and culinary preparation, and on the other hand, poetry and composition, we show that culinary art functions as cause and catalyst of Sor Juana’s poetic creation. Also, we show that, for the hieronymite nun, there is an intimate and profound relation between good seasoning, beauty and moral g…Read more
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49Mestizaje as an Epistemology of Ignorance: the Case of the Mexican Genome Diversity ProjectIn Heidi Elizabeth Grasswick & Nancy Arden McHugh (eds.), Making the Case: Feminist and Critical Race Philosophers Engage Case Studies, Suny Press. pp. 269-292. 2021.
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39Decolonizing Mariátegui as a Prelude to Decolonizing Latin American PhilosophyIn Corey McCall & Phillip McReynolds (eds.), Decolonizing American Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 229-249. 2020.
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306The Foundations of a Mexican Humanism in Emilio Uranga's Análisis del ser del MexicanoAPA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 20 (1): 13-18. 2020.In this paper, I examine the humanism articulated by Jean-Paul Sartre in Existentialism is a humanism and I show that his proposal is underpinned by some problematic assumptions and biases that shape its deployment. I also argue that the Mexican philosopher Emilio Uranga offers us in his most important work, Analísis del Ser del Mexicano, some conceptual resources that allow us to articulate a humanism that does not fall prey to the problems faced by that of Sartre
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81Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz on self‐controlPhilosophy Compass (10): 1-10. 2020.The Novohispanic nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has not been traditionally considered as a philosopher within the Anglophone philosophical sphere because her writings are primarily poems and plays. In the last three decades, only a few philosophers have engaged with Sor Juana's works. However, their scholarship has focused only on a narrow range of issues, such as Sor Juana's defense of the right of women to be educated, and has neglected other dimensions of her thought, such as her position on s…Read more
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7Review of The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism (review)Hypatia Reviews Online 458. 2020.
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607Samuel Ramos as a Pragmatist: Reading El Perfil del Hombre y la Cultura en México through Peirce's Pragmatic MaximIn Paniel Reyes Cardenas & Daniel Richard Herbert (eds.), The Reception of Peirce and Pragmatism in Latin America: A Trilingual Collection, Editorial Torres Asociados. pp. 151-165. 2020.
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24Andrés Bello as a Prefiguration of Richard RortyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (2): 161-174. 2019.The Venezuelan-Chilean humanist Andrés Bello has been recognized as one of the most distinguished intellectuals of the 19th century—one of the last polymaths of the stature of figures such as Athanasius Kircher, Gottfried Leibniz or Benjamin Franklin. Indeed, his numerous contributions span fields such as grammar, poetry, civil law, diplomacy, education, political theory, philology and philosophy. However, despite having composed one of the most important philosophical treatises ever written in …Read more
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328Andrés Bello as a Prefiguration of Richard RortyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (2): 161-174. 2019.The present paper argues that the Venezuelan-Chilean philosopher Andrés Bello constitutes an important but heretofore neglected prefiguration of Richard Rorty. I argue for this thesis by articulating first an Inter-American philosophical narrative (based on previous work by Alex Stehn and Carlos Sanchez) that enables me to highlight certain common characteristics in philosophical projects that flourished across the Americas. Having done this, I show that Rorty’s anti-representationalism and anti…Read more
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25Agonistic Racial Politics and Anti-Racism StrategiesRadical Philosophy Review 21 (2): 333-338. 2018.
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1491Epistemic Injustice and the Struggle for Recognition of Afro-Mexicans: A Model for Native Americans?APA Newsletter on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy 18 (1): 35-42. 2018.
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50Agonistic Racial Politics and Anti-Racism StrategiesRadical Philosophy Review 21 (2): 333-338. 2018.
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127The racial legacy of the Enlightenment in Simón Bolívar's political thoughtCritical Philosophy of Race 6 (2): 198-215. 2018.This article offers a critical complement to Diego von Vacano’s differential characterization of Bolívar’s political thought and his understanding of race through a comparative analysis between Bolívar’s views and those of certain philosophers of the Enlightenment. Indeed, von Vacano argues that Bolívar’s contributions to republican theory have been traditionally ignored by the Anglo-American tradition. Though von Vacano is right in underscoring that Bolívar’s political thought deserves more att…Read more
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30The explanatory role of abstraction processes in models: The case of aggregationsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 56 161-167. 2016.
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417Models as signs: extending Kralemann and Lattman’s proposal on modeling models within Peirce’s theory of signsSynthese 196 (12): 5115-5136. 2019.In recent decades, philosophers of science have devoted considerable efforts to understand what models represent. One popular position is that models represent fictional situations. Another position states that, though models often involve fictional elements, they represent real objects or scenarios. Though these two positions may seem to be incompatible, I believe it is possible to reconcile them. Using a threefold distinction between different signs proposed by Peirce, I develop an argument ba…Read more
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41Epistemic Injustice and Resistance in the Chiapas Highlands: The Zapatista CaseHypatia 32 (2): 247-262. 2017.Though Indigenous women in Mexico have traditionally exhibited some of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the country—a fact that some authors have argued was an important reason to explain the EZLN uprising in 1994—there is some evidence that the rate of maternal mortality has fallen in Zapatista communities in the Chiapas Highlands in the last two decades, and that other health indicators have improved. In this article, we offer an account of the modest success that Zapatista communit…Read more
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)Assistant Professor
CUNY Graduate Center
PhD, 2011
APA Eastern Division