A Companion to Latin American Philosophy

by Nuccetelli, Susana; Schutte, Ofelia; Bueno, Otá; vio

• ISBN13: 9781405179799
• ISBN10: 1405179791
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This comprehensive collection of original essays written by an international group of scholars addresses the central themes in Latin American philosophy. Represents the most comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Latin American philosophy available today Comprises a specially commissioned collection of essays, many of them written by Latin American authors Examines the history of Latin American philosophy and its current issues, traces the development of the discipline, and offers biographical sketches of key Latin American thinkers Showcases the diversity of approaches, issues, and styles that characterize the field

Author Biography

Susana Nuccetelli is Professor of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. Her articles on Latin American philosophy, ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language have appeared in Analysis, Metaphilosophy, Inquiry, and other journals. She is editor of New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge (2003), co-editor of Themes from G. E. Moore (2007) and Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics (2008), and single author of Latin American Thought: Philosophical Problems and Arguments (2002).

Ofelia Schutte is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She is the author of Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought (1993), Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche without Masks (1984), and numerous articles on feminist theory, Latin American thought, and continental philosophy. A former Fulbright Senior Research Fellow to Mexico, her work has appeared in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy Today, and The Philosophical Forum, among other journals and edited collections.

Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, Florida. His work in philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of logic has been published in Noûs, Mind, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Journal of Philosophical Logic, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and Analysis, among other journals and collections. He is a subject area co-editor in Latin American and Iberian Philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Historical Perspectives	p. 7
Pre-Columbian Philosophies	p. 9
	p. 23
Colonial Thought	p. 36
The Emergence and Transformation of Positivism	p. 53
Early Critics of Positivism	p. 68
The Anti-Positivist Movement in Mexico	p. 82
Darwinism	p. 95
Krausism Claus Dierksmeier	p. 110
'Normal' Philosophy	p. 128
Ortega y Gasset's Heritage in Latin America	p. 142
Phenomenology	p. 156
Marxism	p. 170
Liberation Philosophy	p. 185
Analytic Philosophy	p. 199
Current Issues	p. 215
Paraconsistent Logic	p. 217
Language and Colonization	p. 230
Ethnic-Group Terms	p. 241
Identity and Latin American Philosophy	p. 253
Latinos on Race and Ethnicity: Alcoff, Corlett, and Gracia	p. 269
Mestizaje and Hispanic Identity	p. 283
Liberation in Theology, Philosophy, and Pedagogy	p. 297
Philosophy, Postcoloniality, and Postmodernity	p. 312
Globalization and Latin American Thought	p. 327
Disciplinary Developments	p. 341
Latin American Philosophy	p. 343
Contemporary Ethics and Political Philosophy	p. 357
Philosophy of Science	p. 370
Philosophy and Latin American Literature	p. 383
Feminist Philosophy	p. 397
Teaching Philosophy	p. 412
Cultural Studies	p. 425
Deontic Logic and Legal Philosophy	p. 439
Metaphysics	p. 454
Epistemology	p. 468
Formal Epistemology and Logic	p. 482
Biographical Sketches	p. 497
Some Great Figures	p. 499
From Philosophy to Physics, and Back	p. 525
Index	p. 540
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