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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877467203321

Titolo

A companion to Latin American philosophy / / edited by Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte, and Otavio Bueno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-78268-472-7

1-283-20470-3

9786613204707

1-4051-9707-2

1-4443-1484-X

1-4443-1485-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (571 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

NuccetelliSusana

SchutteOfelia

BuenoOtavio

Disciplina

199/.8

Soggetti

Philosophy, Latin American

Philosophy - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to LatinAmerican Philosophy; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Historical Perspectives; 1 Pre-Columbian Philosophies; 2 The Rights of the American Indians; 3 Colonial Thought; 4 The Emergence and Transformation of Positivism; 5 Early Critics of Positivism; 6 The Anti-Positivist Movement in Mexico; 7 Darwinism; 8 Krausism; 9 'Normal' Philosophy; 10 Ortega y Gasset's Heritage in Latin America; 11 Phenomenology; 12 Marxism; 13 Liberation Philosophy; 14 Analytic Philosophy; Part II Current Issues; 15 Paraconsistent Logic; 16 Language and Colonization

17 Ethnic-Group Terms18 Identity and Latin American Philosophy; 19 Latinos on Race and Ethnicity:Alcoff, Corlett, and Gracia; 20 Mestizaje and Hispanic Identity; 21 Liberation in Theology, Philosophy,and Pedagogy; 22 Philosophy, Postcoloniality,and Postmodernity; 23 Globalization and Latin American Thought; Part III Disciplinary Developments; 24 Latin American Philosophy; 25 Contemporary Ethics



andPolitical Philosophy; 26 Philosophy of Science; 27 Philosophy and Latin American Literature; 28 Feminist Philosophy; 29 Teaching Philosophy; 30 Cultural Studies

31 Deontic Logic and Legal Philosophy32 Metaphysics; 33 Epistemology; 34 Formal Epistemology and Logic; Part IV Biographical Sketches; 35 Some Great Figures; 36 From Philosophy to Physics, and Back; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 dive