A Companion to Latin American Philosophy

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7979-9
Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nuccetelli, Susana

Schutte, Ofelia

Bueno

Bueno, Otávio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Interkulturelle Philosophie, Weltphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Historical Perspectives

Part II: Current Issues

Part III: Disciplinary Developments

Part IV: Biographical Sketches

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.