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This category comprises works written from a variety of different perspectives that explore a wide range of problems and arguments through the eyes of Latin American philosophers. Many of these works raise questions that are closely related to the history of Latin American thought and culture, including the reflections of Hispanic philosophers on issues of race, values, and their own ethnic and cultural identity. On the other hand, some of the questions that puzzle Latin American philosophers are the same ones that have bedeviled philosophers in the Western tradition (the nature of mind, God, justice, etc.).  In their attempts to answer questions of both sorts, Latin American philosophers have offered alternative perspectives that will be of interest to readers seeking to learn more about the history of philosophical ideas in the West, but also to those curious about some issues characteristic of Latin American thought.

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A recurrent topic in Latin American philosophy is that of identity, understood in two different ways. One concerns the cultural, racial, and ethnic identity of Latin Americans and their descendants abroad, and on this subject an influential view is that proposed by Jorge Gracia in his “Is Being Hispanic an Identity?” (Garcia 2001). The other concerns the identity of Latin American philosophy as a distinctive kind of philosophy. On this topic, Susana Nuccetelli offers an overview of the main positions, together with her own proposal, in her “Is ‘Latin American Philosophy’ Philosophy?”  (Nuccetelli 2003). 

Introductions

There are some current collections of original sources in Latin American philosophy offering historical and thematic selections (for example, Gracia & Millán-Zaibert 2004 and Nuccetelli & Seay 2003). In these collections the reader will also find introductions by the editors that will provide some guidance through the discipline for those unfamiliar with it. For overviews of the main topics and arguments in Latin American philosophy, see the Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy (Nuccetelli et al 2009). On the foundations of Latin American philosophy, see the forthcoming entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Susana Nuccetelli.

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  1. „Trotz“ oder „mit“ Hegel. Über zwei Rezeptionsarten der spekulativen Philosophie in Lateinamerika.Pedro Sepúlveda Zambrano - 2024 - In Miguel Giusti & Thomas Sören Hoffmann (eds.), Hegel und die Wissenschaften. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 461-473.
    Die Beschreibung des Verhältnisses zwischen Hegel und Lateinamerika ist bis heute eine noch ungelöste Aufgabe. Die unterschiedlichen Zugänge zur spekulativen Logik des deutschen Philosophen, die innerhalb der lateinamerikanischen Region aufzufinden sind, beschreiben die unterschiedlichsten Denkmotive, Perspektiven und theoretischen Dispositionen. Dabei übersteigt Hegels Präsenz in Lateinamerika die Grenzen der Philosophie. Denn heute kommen wesentliche Forschungsbeiträge insbesondere aus dem Bereich der Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, wobei diese zumeist einen bestimmten Begriff der Hegelschen Philosophie hervorheben, um diesen dann in Beziehung zu ihrer singulären Disziplin (...)
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  2. Formas da filosofia brasileira: 12 aportes metodológicos à historiografia, metalinguagem e autocrítica da filosofia brasileira.Lúcio Álvaro Marques - 2023 - [Cachoeirinha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil]: Fi.
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  3. Um capítulo esquecido da história intelectual brasileira: o caso do ISEB.John Karley de Sousa Aquino - 2023 - In Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto (ed.), VII Colóquio Pensadores Brasileiros: coletânea de textos. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
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  4. As ideias filosóficas de Lélia González.Rodrgo Marcos de Jesus - 2023 - In Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto (ed.), VII Colóquio Pensadores Brasileiros: coletânea de textos. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
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  5. Filosofia do Machado : o pessimismo moral como protoforma do Niilismo em Helena.Vitor Cei - 2023 - In Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto (ed.), VII Colóquio Pensadores Brasileiros: coletânea de textos. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
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  6. A autoria dos textos de Antônio Pedro de Figueiredo na Revista Progresso.Gildemarks Costa E. Silva - 2023 - In Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto (ed.), VII Colóquio Pensadores Brasileiros: coletânea de textos. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
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  7. Os indígenas brasileiros e a filosofia.Robson Araújo - 2023 - In Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto (ed.), VII Colóquio Pensadores Brasileiros: coletânea de textos. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
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  8. As ideias filosóficas de Antônio Herculano de Souza Bandeira Filho (1854-1890).Paulo Margutti - 2023 - In Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto (ed.), VII Colóquio Pensadores Brasileiros: coletânea de textos. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
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  9. VII Colóquio Pensadores Brasileiros: coletânea de textos.Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto (ed.) - 2023 - Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
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  10. (1 other version)?Adónde vamos?Agustín Alvarez - 1915 - Buenos Aires,: La Cultura argentina. Edited by Nicolás Besio Moreno.
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  11. (1 other version)Teoría del nous.Emilio Oribe - 1934 - Montevideo:
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  12. (1 other version)Le libertad creadora.Alejandro Korn - 1944 - Buenos Aires,: Editorial Losada.
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  13. (1 other version)O homen, sua vida, sua educação, sua felicidade.A. Da Silva Mello - 1945 - Rio de Janeiro,: J. Olympio.
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  14. (1 other version)El pensamiento mexicano en los siglos XVI y XVII.Gallegos Rocafull & José Manuel - 1951 - [México]: Centro de Estudios Filosóficos.
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  15. (1 other version)El positivismo en México.Leopoldo Zea - 1953 - México,:
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  16. (1 other version)La filosofía en el Perú.Augusto Salazar Bondy - 1955 - Wáshington,: Unión Panamericana.
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  17. Mexico Unveiled: Resisting Colonial Vices and Other Complaints.Carlos Pereda & Noell Birondo - forthcoming - Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Translated by Noell Birondo.
    Carlos Pereda's "Mexico Unveiled" is a fresh, idiosyncratic synthesis of twentieth century Mexican philosophy that puts contemporary debates about Mexican identity politics into a critical perspective. In three engaging essays written in a peerless prose style, Pereda considers the persistent influence of Spanish colonialism on Mexican intellectual life, the politics of inclusion, and the changing ideas of what it means to be Mexican. He identifies three "vices"—social habits, customs, and beliefs inherited from European colonialism—that have influenced the development of Mexican (...)
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  18. The Fourth Person Perspective.Felipe Eleuterio - 2024 - Dissertation, Unesp
    The objective of this work is to analyze the epistemological implications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in second-person interpersonal relationships, focusing on their identity role. The second-person thesis explores how people recognize themselves daily through various expressive, immediately significant aspects, especially emotional ones (Gomila, 2001; Barone et al., 2022). Initially, we address the difficulty in justifying how a person remains the same throughout life, despite bio-sociocultural changes, known as the problem of personal identity. By rejecting traditional internalist conceptions, such (...)
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  19. (1 other version)Lecciones de filosofía.Félix Varela - 1961 - [Habana]: Editorial de la Universidad de la Habana.
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  20. (1 other version)Del modernismo al liberalismo: la filosofía de Manuel María Gorriño.Raúl Cardiel Reyes - 1967 - México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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  21. (1 other version)Antonio Caso y su impacto cultural en el intelecto mexicano.Delia Leonor M. Sutton - 1971 - México,: Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público.
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  22. Filosofía y Pedagogía en la obra de Félix Varela, José de la Luz y Caballero, y Enrique José Varona.Vicente Medina - manuscript - Translated by Vicente Medina.
    En este artículo sostengo que los tres filósofos/pedagogos cubanos del siglo XIX, Félix Varela y Morales, José de la Luz y Caballero y Enrique José Varona, fueron responsables de superar la enseñanza de la escolástica tardía en la Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Jerónimo de La Habana. Contra los filósofos y pedagogos escolásticos tardíos que preferían la lógica silogística y la autoridad de la tradición sobre la inducción, argumentaron a favor de esta última sobre la primera. Puesto que defendían (...)
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  23. (1 other version)En torno a la filosofía mexicana.José Gaos - 1980 - México, D.F.: Alianza Editorial Mexicana.
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  24. (1 other version)Teoría y crítica del pensamiento latinoamericano.Arturo Andrés Roig - 1981 - México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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  25. (2 other versions)Las jerarquías del ser y la eternidad.Alberto Rougès - 1982 - S.M. de Tucumán: Universidad Nacional de Tucumán.
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  26. (1 other version)Esquemas para una historia de la filosofía ecuatoriana.Arturo Andrés Roig - 1982 - Quito: Ediciones de la Universidad Católica.
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  27. (1 other version)Confesiones profesionales.José Gaos - 1982 - México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades. Edited by José Gaos & Vera Yamuni Tabush.
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  28. (1 other version)Antología del pensamiento de lengua española en la edad contemporánea.José Gaos (ed.) - 1982 - Culiacán, Sinaloa, México: Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa.
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  29. (2 other versions)História das idéias filosóficas no Brasil.Antônio Paim - 1984 - S[i.e. São] Paulo-S.P.: em convênio com o Instituto Nacional do Livro, Fundação Nacional Pró-Memória.
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  30. (1 other version)Farias Brito e as origens do existencialismo no Brasil.Aquiles Côrtes Guimarães - 1984 - São Paulo: Editora Convívio.
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  31. Anais do 1o. Encontro Nacional de Professores e Pesquisadores da Filosofia Brasileira: Londrina, 7, 8 e 9 de setembro de 1989.Leonardo Prota (ed.) - 1989 - Londrina, PR: Universidade Estadual de Londrina.
    El cuerpo principal de esta obra, en lo que se refiere al interés de esta sección, está compuesto por dos artículos: 'O Modelo de Pesquisa da Filosofia Brasileira', de Antonio Paim y Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez; y 'O Diálogo da Filosofia Brasileira com outras Filosofias Nacionais', de Antonio Paim. Este último autor considera que son características del pensamiento filosófico propiamente brasileño aquellos esfuerzos que tienden a 'dar continuidad al diálogo que venimos emprendiendo con las otras filosofías nacionales'. Y entre ellos selecciona: (...)
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  32. (1 other version)Estudos de filosofia.Tobias Barreto - 1990 - [Brasília]: Instituto Nacional do Livro, Ministério da Cultura. Edited by Paulo Mercadante & Antônio Paim.
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  33. (1 other version)Del hombre.José Gaos - 1992 - México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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  34. El pensamiento hispanoamericano.José Gaos - 1993 - México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades. Edited by José Gaos.
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  35. (2 other versions)Anais.Leonardo Prota (ed.) - 1994 - Londrina, Paraná: Universidade Estadual de Londrina.
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  36. (1 other version)En el principio era la ética--: ensayo de interpretación del pensamiento de Estanislao Zuleta.Alberto Valencia Gutiérrez - 1996 - Santiago de Cali: Editorial Universidad del Valle.
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  37. (1 other version)Filosofía y nación: estudios sobre el pensamiento argentino.José Pablo Feinmann - 1996 - [Buenos Aires]: Ariel.
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  38. La época de la crisis: conversaciones con Danilo Cruz Velez.Danilo Cruz Vélez - 1996 - Santiago de Cali: Editorial Universidad del Valle. Edited by Rubén Sierra Mejía.
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  39. (2 other versions)História das idéias filosóficas no Brasil.Antônio Paim - 1997 - Londrina: Editora UEL.
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  40. (1 other version)Introducción a la historia del pensamiento latinoamericano.Karlos Navarro - 1998 - Panamá: [S.N.]. Edited by Birgit Gernstemberg.
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  41. (2 other versions)Anais.Leonardo Prota (ed.) - 1999 - Londrina: Editora UEL.
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  42. Historia de las ideas filosóficas en Santo Domingo durante el siglo XVIII.Pérez de la Cruz & Rosa Elena - 2000 - México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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  43. José Agustín Caballero, iniciador de la reforma filosófica en Cuba.Buch Sánchez & M. Rita - 2001 - La Habana: Editorial "Félix Varela".
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  44. (1 other version)Cosmovisão africana no Brasil: elementos para uma filosofia afrodescendente.Eduardo Oliveira - 2003 - Fortaleza: Publicação Ibeca.
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  45. (1 other version)Crítica de la razón latinoamericana.Santiago Castro-Gómez - 2011 - Bogotá, D.C.: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
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  46. Jorge Portilla on philosophy and agential liberation.Juan Garcia Torres - 2024 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 62 (2):246-262.
    Jorge Portilla argues that authentic philosophical inquiry plays a liberating function. This function is that of bringing more fully to consciousness aspects of identities or ways of being‐in‐the world that have been, up until then, tacit or opaque to the agent herself to facilitate her endorsement, rejection, or modification of these identities. For Portilla, this function facilitates greater self‐mastery by increasing the range of free variations of subjectivity available to the agent, and this increase in self‐mastery itself constitutes a kind (...)
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  47. Imagen, gesto visual y aparición política: estrategias para pensar el arte colombiano.Carlos Vanegas Zubiría - 2024 - In Sara Fernández Gómez & Carlos Vanegas Zubiría (eds.), Acciones políticas del arte. Medellín, Colombia: Universidad de Antioquia. pp. 185-203.
    Este texto parte de un diálogo entre el último libro de Simón Puerta Domínguez, Pensamiento crítico y modernidad en América Latina. Un estudio en torno al proyecto filosófico de Bolívar Echeverría (2021), y el libro de Didi-Huberman, Desear desobedecer. Lo que nos levanta, 1 (2020).2 A partir de la confrontación de estas dos posturas, cercanas en muchos puntos a pesar de los horizontes teóricos tan diversos, deseo sacar provecho de la lectura de Puerta sobre Echeverría, para acercarla en este texto (...)
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  48. Aproximación a la imaginación política como refugio. [REVIEW]Carlos Vanegas Zubiría - 2022 - Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana 43 (126):N/A.
    Indagar por el propósito del extenso libro Pensamiento crítico y modernidad en América Latina. Un estudio en torno al proyecto filosófico de Bolívar Echeverría, de Simón Puerta Domínguez, implica un acto de sobredeterminación. Quiero sobredeterminar la historia (die Geschichte) en una imagen estética: como un amasijo de verdades amargasy de verdaderas amarguras. Una urdimbre que se mueve y enmaraña y desenmaraña las primeras con las segundas. Esta sobredeterminación me permite pensar que la historia es impura, hecha de singularidades, precipitaciones y (...)
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  49. Aprovechando las lecciones de los antepasados indígenas: el caso de los Bachués (Drawing on the lessons of indigenous ancestors: the case of the Bachués).Carlos Vanegas Zubiría, Sara Fernández Gómez & Carlos Fernández Uribe - 2024 - Visioni Latinoamericane 30:92-109.
    The authors explore the works of a group of Colombian artists of the twentieth century who resort to the references of the Latin American pre-Hispanic world as a plastic strategy of a modern art with strong roots in their own culture. Thus, the Bachué group and the cases of Pedro Nel Gómez and Rómulo Rozo are analyzed as alternatives to the official and prevailing art, with an avant-garde tendency, from a nationalist and indigenist point of view.
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  50. Sobre historia y gestos políticos: A propósito de la exposición Jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan. Actos fundantes y gestos refundantes.Carlos Vanegas Zubiría - 2024 - Dialektika: Revista de Investigación Filosófica y Teoría Social 5 (16):138–148.
    This text takes as an excuse the homonymous exhibition at the Museo de Antioquia, to address the history and political gestures in contemporary art. By addressing some curatorial approaches of the exhibition, it explores the cultural functions of the museum as a place of localization of descriptive and communicative processes about culture, and how the exhibition reveals the negative effects of these functions on cultural processes. The text highlights the presence of the artist Jorge Marín, who in his works questions (...)
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