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117 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?In Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo Estévez (eds.), Philosophizing the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 147-161. 2024.
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10Normative SkepticismIn Graham Oppy (ed.), A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.In this chapter, I consider an attempted reductio of two realist doctrines with substantial normative implications: theism (i.e., realism about God as standardly conceived in the main monotheistic traditions) and normative realism (i.e., realism about normative properties and facts). After characterizing these doctrines, I look closely at the charge that, given the evolutionary origins of theistic and normative belief, both theism and normative realism entail an implausible type of normative sce…Read more
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Should analytical descriptivists worry about the naturalistic fallacy?In Neil Sinclair (ed.), The Naturalistic Fallacy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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13The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia EthicaRoutledge. 2019.Upon publication in 1791-92, the two parts of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man proved to be both immensely popular and highly controversial. An immediate bestseller, it not only defended the French revolution but also challenged current laws, customs, and government. The Routledge Guidebook to Paine's Rights of Man provides the first comprehensive and fully contextualized introduction to this foundational text in the history of modern political thought, addressing its central themes, reception, and …Read more
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16The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia EthicaRoutledge. 2021.G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica is a landmark publication in twentieth-century moral philosophy. Through focusing on the origin and evolution of his main doctrines, this guidebook makes it clear that Moore was an innovator whose provocative take on traditional philosophical problems ignited heated debates among philosophers. Principia Ethica is an important text for those attempting to understand and engage with some major philosophical debates in ethics today. The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's P…Read more
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19How to Think LogicallyLongman. 2007.This concise, affordable, and engaging new text is designed for introductory courses on logic and critical thinking. This unique book covers the basic principles of informal logic while also raising substantive issues in other areas of philosophy: epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. The author’s presentation strikes a careful balance: it offers clear, jargon-free writing while preserving rigor. Brimming with numerous pedagogical features this accessible text …Read more
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What's Right with the Open Question ArgumentIn Susana Nuccetelli & Gary Seay (eds.), Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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16Teaching Quinean IndeterminacyDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 7 (1): 125-133. 2007.
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16What Anti-Individualists Cannot Know A PrioriThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 45 204-210. 1998.The attempt to hold both anti-individualism and privileged self-knowledge may have the absurd consequence that someone could know a priori propositions that are knowable only empirically. This would be so if such an attempt entailed that one could know a priori both the contents of one’s own thoughts and the anti-individualistic entailments from those thought-contents to the world. For then one could also come to know a priori the empirical conditions entailed by one’s thoughts. But I argue that…Read more
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17An Introduction to Latin American PhilosophyCambridge University Press. 2020.Latin American philosophy is best understood as a type of applied philosophy devoted to issues related to the culture and politics of Latin America. This introduction provides a comprehensive overview of its central topics. It explores not only the unique insights offered by Latin American thinkers into the traditional pre-established fields of Western philosophy, but also the many 'isms' developed as a direct result of Latin American thought. Many concern matters of practical ethics and social …Read more
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16Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It includes some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, as well as new essays by scholars on the leading edge of innovation in this increasingly influential area of philosophy. Each chapter is preceded the editors' introduction
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149Two-Dimensional Semantics - Edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Josep MaciáDialectica 63 (1): 94-99. 2009.No Abstract
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45Themes from G.e. Moore: New essays in epistemology and ethics * by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary SeayAnalysis 69 (1): 167-169. 2009.G.E. Moore's philosophical legacy is ambiguous. On the one hand, Moore has a special place in the hearts of many contemporary analytic philosophers. He is, after all, one of the fathers of the movement, his broadly commonsensical methodology informing how many contemporary analytic philosophers practise their craft. On the other hand, many contemporary philosophers keep Moore's own substantive positions at arm's distance. According to many epistemologists, one can find no finer example of how to…Read more
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1Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case StudiesRoutledge. 2017._Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies_ draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them to actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern. Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, it offers balanced, philosophically based, and rigorous inquiry for undergraduates throughout the humanities and social sciences as well as for health care professionals-in-training, including students in medical school, pre-medicine, n…Read more
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110A Companion to Latin American Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.This comprehensive collection of original essays written by aninternational group of scholars addresses the central themes inLatin American philosophy. Represents the most comprehensive survey of historical andcontemporary Latin American philosophy available today Comprises a specially commissioned collection of essays, manyof them written by Latin American authors Examines the history of Latin American philosophy and itscurrent issues, traces the development of the discipline, andoffers biograp…Read more
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Anti-Individualism and Knowledge of ContentDissertation, City University of New York. 1998.The object of this dissertation is to determine whether the doctrines of anti-individualism and privileged self-knowledge are compatible. The former is the thesis that some of an individual's propositional-attitude contents supervene on the individual's external relations with his physical and/or social environment. The latter includes the theses of privileged access and first-person authority, according to which self-ascriptive beliefs about one's own occurrent, conscious, mental states are dir…Read more
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451Latin American Feminist PhilosophyIn Kinsbruner Jay (ed.), Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Charles Scribner’s Sons. 2008.
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246Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2007.These thirteen original essays, whose authors include some of the world's leading philosophers, examine themes from the work of the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore (1873-1958), and demonstrate his considerable continuing influence on philosophical debate. Part I bears on epistemological topics, such as skepticism about the external world, the significance of common sense, and theories of perception. Part II is devoted to themes in ethics, such as Moore's open question argument, his non-natural…Read more
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173New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge (edited book)MIT Press. 2003.This book shows that the debate over the compatibility of externalism and self-knowledge has led to the investigation of a variety of topics, including the a...
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73Latin American Philosophy: An Introduction with Readings (edited book)Prentice-Hall. 2003.For undergraduate/graduate courses in Latin American Philosophy, Latin American Thought, Multicultural Philosophy, Latino Culture and Civilization, and Hispanic Culture and Civilization in the Departments of Philosophy, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Romance Languages, and Chicano Studies. The most comprehensive anthology in its field, 'Latin American philosophy' offers the reflections of Latin American thinkers on the nature of philosophy, justice, human rights, cultural identity, a…Read more
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1076What anti-individualists cannot know a prioriAnalysis 59 (1): 48-51. 1999.Note first that knowledge of one's own thought-contents would not count as a priori according to the usual criteria for knowledge of this kind. Surely, then, incompatibilists are using this term to refer to some other, stipulatively defined, epistemic property. But could this be, as suggested by McKinsey { 1 99 1: 9), the property of being knowable 'just by thinking' or 'from the armchair'? Certainly not if these were metaphors for knowledge attainable on the basis of reason alone, since self-kn…Read more
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44Relieving Pain and Foreseeing Death: A Paradox About Accountability and BlameJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (1): 19-25. 2000.In a familiar moral dilemma faced by physicians who care for the dying, some patients who are within days or hours of death may experience suffering in a degree that cannot be relieved by ordinary levels of analgesia. In such cases, it may sometimes be possible to honor a competent patient's request for pain relief only by giving an injection of narcotics in a dosage so large that the patient's death is thereby hastened. Doctors rightly worry that taking an action likely to result in a patient's…Read more
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9Latin American Thought: Philosophical Problems And ArgumentsWestview Press. 2002.Many of the philosophical questions raised by Latin American thinkers are problems that have concerned philosophers at different times and in different places throughout the Western tradition. But in fact the issues are not altogether the same-- for they have been adapted to capture problems presented by new circumstances, and Latin Americans have sought resolutions in ways that are indeed novel. This book explains how well-established philosophical traditions gave rise in the "New World" to a d…Read more
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140Is self-knowledge an entitlement? And why should we care?Southern Journal of Philosophy 39 (1): 143-155. 2001.
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940What Is an Ethnic Group?In Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed.), Race or Ethnicity?: On Black and Latino Identity, Cornell Univ Pr. 2007.
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11Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2007.These thirteen original essays, whose authors include some of the world's leading philosophers, examine themes from the work of the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore (1873-1958), and demonstrate his considerable continuing influence on philosophical debate. Part I bears on epistemological topics, such as skepticism about the external world, the significance of common sense, and theories of perception. Part II is devoted to themes in ethics, such as Moore's open question argument, his non-natural…Read more
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57Pragmatic Naturalism and the Evolutionary Quasi-Debunking of MoralityCriminal Justice Ethics 32 (2): 175-184. 2013.An important part of The Ethical Project is devoted to arguing that morality is an evolving social enterprise. Rather than a static result of natural selection, it is an ongoing social project that...
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