A Companion to Latin American Philosophy

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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 todayComprises a specially commissioned collection of essays, many of them written by Latin American authorsExamines the history of Latin American philosophy and its current issues, traces the development of the discipline, and offers biographical sketches of key Latin American thinkersShowcases the diversity of approaches, issues, and styles that characterize the field Front Matter......Page 1 Introduction......Page 13 Part I : Historical Perspectives......Page 19 Pre‐Columbian Philosophies......Page 20 The Rights of the American Indians......Page 34 Colonial Thought......Page 47 The Emergence and Transformation of Positivism......Page 64 Early Critics of Positivism......Page 79 The Anti‐Positivist Movement in Mexico......Page 93 Darwinism......Page 106 Krausism......Page 121 ‘Normal’ Philosophy......Page 139 Ortega y Gasset's Heritage in Latin America......Page 153 Phenomenology......Page 167 Marxism......Page 181 Liberation Philosophy......Page 196 Analytic Philosophy......Page 210 Part II : Current Issues......Page 225 Paraconsistent Logic......Page 226 Language and Colonization......Page 239 Ethnic‐Group Terms......Page 250 Identity and Latin American Philosophy......Page 262 Latinos on Race and Ethnicity: Alcoff, Corlett, and Gracia......Page 278 Mestizaje and Hispanic Identity......Page 292 Liberation in Theology, Philosophy, and Pedagogy......Page 306 Philosophy, Postcoloniality, and Postmodernity......Page 321 Globalization and Latin American Thought......Page 336 Part III : Disciplinary Developments......Page 349 Latin American Philosophy......Page 350 Contemporary Ethics and Political Philosophy......Page 364 Philosophy of Science......Page 377 Philosophy and Latin American Literature......Page 390 Feminist Philosophy......Page 404 Teaching Philosophy......Page 419 Cultural Studies......Page 432 Deontic Logic and Legal Philosophy......Page 446 Metaphysics......Page 461 Epistemology......Page 475 Formal Epistemology and Logic......Page 489 Part IV : Biographical Sketches......Page 503 Some Great Figures......Page 504 From Philosophy to Physics, and Back......Page 530 Index......Page 545