Susana Nuccetelli & Ofelia Schutte 
A Companion to Latin American Philosophy [PDF ebook] 

About the Editors viii
Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Part I Historical Perspectives 7
1 Pre-Columbian Philosophies 9
James Maffie
2 The Rights of the American Indians 23
Bernardo J. Canteñs
3 Colonial Thought 36
Luis Fernando Restrepo
4 The Emergence and Transformation of Positivism 53
Meri L. Clark
5 Early Critics of Positivism 68
Oscar R. Martí
6 The Anti-Positivist Movement in Mexico 82
Guillermo Hurtado
7 Darwinism 95
Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine
8 Krausism 110
Claus Dierksmeier
9 ‘Normal’ Philosophy 128
William F. Cooper
10 Ortega y Gasset’s Heritage in Latin America 142
Manuel Garrido
11 Phenomenology 156
Nythamar de Oliveira
12 Marxism 170
Renzo Llorente
13 Liberation Philosophy 185
David Ignatius Gandolfo
14 Analytic Philosophy 199
Diana I. Pérez and Gustavo Ortiz-Millán
Part II Current Issues 215
15 Paraconsistent Logic 217
Newton C. A. da Costa and Otávio Bueno
16 Language and Colonization 230
Ilan Stavans
17 Ethnic-Group Terms 241
Susana Nuccetelli and Roderick Stewart
18 Identity and Latin American Philosophy 253
Jorge J. E. Gracia
19 Latinos on Race and Ethnicity: Alcoff, Corlett, and Gracia 269
Lawrence Blum
20 Mestizaje and Hispanic Identity 283
Gregory Velazco y Trianosky
21 Liberation in Theology, Philosophy, and Pedagogy 297
Iván Márquez
22 Philosophy, Postcoloniality, and Postmodernity 312
Ofelia Schutte
23 Globalization and Latin American Thought 327
A. Pablo Iannone
Part III Disciplinary Developments 341
24 Latin American Philosophy 343
Susana Nuccetelli
25 Contemporary Ethics and Political Philosophy 357
Eduardo Rivera-López
26 Philosophy of Science 370
Alberto Cordero
27 Philosophy and Latin American Literature 383
Jesús H. Aguilar
28 Feminist Philosophy 397
Ofelia Schutte and María Luisa Femenías
29 Teaching Philosophy 412
María Cristina González and Nora Stigol
30 Cultural Studies 425
Arturo Arias
31 Deontic Logic and Legal Philosophy 439
Pablo Navarro
32 Metaphysics 454
Liza Skidelsky
33 Epistemology 468
Eleonora Cresto
34 Formal Epistemology and Logic 482
Horacio Arló-Costa and Eduardo Fermé
Part IV Biographical Sketches 497
35 Some Great Figures 499
Gregory D. Gilson and Gregory Fernando Pappas
36 From Philosophy to Physics, and Back 525
Mario Bunge
Index 540

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.