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Review: "A Companion to Latin American Philosophy presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing the central themes in Latin American philosophy. Contributed by a distinguished team of scholars, many of them Latin American, the essays discuss and analyze the diversity and multifaceted nature of philosophical thought emerging from Latin America. Addressing both analytical and continental traditions, the Companion explores 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. Themes and topics discussed include the nature of philosophy, justice, human rights, and cultural identity. Taken together, the essays provide rich insights into Latin American philosophical thought as it developed from pre-Columbian societies through the colonial era and up to the present day." "Comprised of an outstanding compilation of current thinking on central issues and arguments, A Companion to Latin American Philosophy provides English-speaking readers with an illuminating portrait of Latin America's rich and rigorous tradition of creative philosophical thought."--Jacket

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Historical perspectives
• Pre-columbian philosophies / James Maffie
• The rights of the american indians / Bernardo J. Canteñs
• Colonial thought / Luis Fernando Restrepo
• The emergence and transformation of positivism / Meri L. Clark
• Early critics of positivism / Oscar Martí
• The anti-positivist movement in mexico / Guillermo Hurtado
• Darwinism / Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine
• Krausism / Claus Dierksmeier
• Normal philosophy / William Cooper
• Ortega y gasset's heritage in latin america / Manuel Garrido
• Phenomenology / Nythamar de Oliveira
• Marxism / Renzo Llorente
• Liberation philosophy / David Ignatius Gandolfo
• Analytic philosophy / Diana I. Pérez and Gustavo Ortiz Millán
• Current issues
• Paraconsistent logic/newton da costa and otávio bueno
• Language and coloniz / Ilan Stavans
• Ethnic-group terms / Susana Nuccetelli and Rod Stewart

• Identity and philosophy / Jorge Gracia
• Latinos on race and ethnicity : Alcoff, Corlett, and Gracia / Lawrence Blum
• Mestizaje / Gregory Velazco y Trianosky
• Liberation in theology, philosophy, and pedagogy / Iván Márquez
• Philosophy, postcoloniality, and postmodernity / Ofelia Schutte
• Globalization and Latin American thought / A. Pablo Iannone
• Part III: Disciplinary developments
• Latin American philosophy / Susana Nuccetelli
• Ethics and political philosophy / Eduardo Rivera-López
• Philosophy of science / Alberto Cordero
• Philosophy and literature / Jesús Aguilar
• Feminist philosophy / Ofelia Schutte and María Luisa Femenías
• Teaching philosophy / María Cristina González and Nora Stigol
• Cultural studies / Arturo Arias
• Deontic logic and legal philosophy / Pablo Navarro
• Metaphysics / Liza Skidelsky
• Epistemology / Eleonora Cresto
• Formal epistemology and logic / Horacio Arló-Costa and Eduardo Fermé
• Part IV: Biographical sketches
• Some great figures / Gregory D. Gilson and Gregory Pappas
• From philosophy to physics and back / Mario Bunge.

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Contributors:

Nuccetelli, Susana

Schutte, Ofelia

Bueno, Otávio

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Companion to Latin American philosophy (Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 — ISBN 9781405179799; ISBN 1405179791; LCCN 2009015236; OCLC Number 318672866)

Related Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy

Subjects:

Philosophy, Latin American

Philosophy — Latin America

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 555 pages).

Call Numbers:

B1001 .C65 2010eb

ISBNs:

9781444314847
144431484X
9781405179799 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
1405179791 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781444314854
1444314858
9781118610565
1118610563

OCLC Numbers:

476317093