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Summary This category includes works on topics that bear on the nature of Latin American philosophy. Latin American philosophers have often been interested in elucidating what exactly is Latin American philosophy. In discussing this question, they developed a number of proposals that could be classified as representative of either distinctivism, universalism or a mixed view. 
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Among the issues often considered foundational in Latin American philosophy are the so-called invisibility problem and the originality problem. An obstacle to the development of a characteristically Latin American philosophy include the fact that many creative philosophical thinkers in Latin American are not philosophers by training. And there is also the issue of establishing the historical origins of the discipline.

Introductions Gracia 2008; Nuccetelli 2003; Pereda 2006; Zea 1963.
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  1. Latin American Philosophy: Metaphilosophical Foundations.Susana Nuccetelli - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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  2. Pragmatism and the Hispanic World.G. Pappas (ed.) - forthcoming - Fordham University Press.
  3. Del Río, F. (2022). Hacia una crítica ética de la historia de la filosofía en México desde una perspectiva de género. Editorial NUN-Sapientia. 90 pp. [REVIEW]Axel Arturo Barceló - 2024 - Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 68:503-511.
    El objetivo del texto de Del Río es cuádruple: primero, busca documentar la exclusión de la que han sido víctimas las mujeres mexicanas a partir del análisis de diecisiete obras de historia de la filosofía mexicana publicadas entre 1943 y 2018; segundo, mostrar que dicha exclusión, además de presentar una imagen distorsionada del quehacer filosófico en nuestro país, comete un injusticia contra las mujeres y la comunidad filosófica nacional; tercero, defender que el aparato conceptual sobre injusticia epistémica que Miranda Fricker (...)
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  4. The Dangers of Re-colonization: Possible Boundaries Between Latin American Philosophy and Indigenous Philosophy from Latin America.Jorge Sanchez-Perez - 2023 - Comparative Philosophy 14 (2).
    The field of Latin American philosophy has established itself as a relevant subfield of philosophical inquiry. However, there might be good reasons to consider that our focus on the subfield could have distracted us from considering another subfield that, although it might share some geographical proximity, does not share the same historical basic elements. In this paper, I argue for a possible and meaningful conceptual difference between Latin American Philosophy and Indigenous philosophy produced in Latin America. First, I raise what (...)
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  5. “Pese a Hegel — vía Hegel”. Sobre dos modos de recepción de la filosofía especulativa en América Latina.Pedro Sepúlveda Zambrano - 2023 - In Miguel Giusti, Thomas Sören Hoffmann & Agemir Bavaresco (eds.), Hegel y el círculo de las ciencias. Actas del III Congreso Germano-Latinoamericano sobre la Filosofía de Hegel. Vol. III. Porto Alegre: Editora Fundação Fênix. pp. 185-219.
    Ensayo ganador del Concurso de Ensayo “Hegel y América Latina”, convocado por FILORED con ocasión del III Congreso Germano-Latinoamericano sobre la Filosofía de Hegel, Lima-Cusco, Perú 2022.
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  6. Cuerpos-territorios de las mujeres mapuce. Testimonios de opresión y de resistencia.Cintia Rodríguez Garat - 2022 - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes: Unidad de Publicaciones en Ciencias Sociales.
    Todas las prácticas ancestrales relacionadas con el parto y la maternidad tienen para las comunidades mapuce un profundo anclaje cultural. ¿Qué sucede cuando la mujer mapuce va a parir a un hospital público del sistema de salud hegemónico? ¿Se respeta su cosmovisión? ¿Se valoran sus saberes? ¿Se la escucha? En este libro, Cintia Rodríguez Garat aborda la atención sanitaria de parto de las mujeres mapuce en la localidad de Las Coloradas, provincia del Neuquén, y se pregunta si en esta práctica (...)
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  7. Proletariado, colonialismo e identidad: una mirada desde América Latina en el siglo XX.Sergio Bedoya-Cortés - 2021 - Realidad, Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 1 (160):49 - 70.
  8. Social Movements and Latin American Philosophy: From Ciudad Juárez to Ayotzinapa.Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda - 2020 - USA: Lexington Books.
    This book provides a historical and theoretical analysis of the Ayotzinapa social movement from the perspective of Latin American philosophy. The author addresses questions such as how a social movement is born, how (and if) the distinct social movement organizations should be defined, and what (if any) should be the extent of these organizations.
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  9. Cultural Gaslighting.Elena Ruíz - 2020 - Hypatia 35 (4):687-713.
    This essay frames systemic patterns of mental abuse against women of color and Indigenous women on Turtle Island (North America) in terms of larger design-of-distribution strategies in settler colonial societies, as these societies use various forms of social power to distribute, reproduce, and automate social inequalities (including public health precarities and mortality disadvantages) that skew socio-economic gain continuously toward white settler populations and their descendants. It departs from traditional studies in gender-based violence research that frame mental abuses such as gaslighting--commonly (...)
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  10. Metaphilosophy: Defining Latin American and Latinx Philosophy,.Lori Gallegos de Castillo & Francisco Gallegos - 2019 - In Sanchez Eli (ed.), Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Philosophy.
    Some of the central questions that have been explored by Latin American and Latinx philosophers are questions of metaphilosophy. "Metaphilosophy" refers to philosophical reflections on the nature of philosophy itself. For example, we might ask: What is the purpose of doing philosophy? How does philosophy compare and contrast with other disciplines, such as science, theology, or literature? And what is the best way of categorizing the different kinds and traditions of philosophy? These are philosophical questions about philosophy as an activity (...)
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  11. The Structure of Dispossession in Settler México.Elena Ruíz - 2019 - Journal of World Philosophies 1 (4):121-155.
  12. On the Distinctive Value of Mexican-American Philosophy: Beginning with the concerns and intuitions of Mexican Americans.Francisco Gallegos & Lori Gallegos de Castillo - 2018 - Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 2 (9):24-44.
    It has been said that all philosophy begins with a set of concerns and a set of intuitions. With this idea in mind, we ask: Would it be helpful to understand Mexican-American philosophy as a kind of philosophy that begins with the concerns and intuitions of the Mexican-American community? On this view, what distinguishes Mexican-American philosophy is the orientation from which the philosophical investigation proceeds. Such an orientation is shaped by the experiences and relationships that are characteristic of those who (...)
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  13. Decolonising Philosophy.Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rafael Vizcaíno, Jasmine Wallace & Jeong Eun Annabel We - 2018 - In Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial & Kerem Nişancıoğlu (eds.), Decolonising the University. London: Pluto Press. pp. 64-90.
    Based on Maldonado-Torres’s formulation of the term, we conceive the decolonial turn as a form of liberating and decolonising reason beyond the liberal and Enlightened emancipation of rationality, and beyond the more radical Euro-critiques that have failed to consistently challenge the legacies of Eurocentrism and white male heteronormativity (often Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism). We complement Maldonado-Torres’s account of the decolonial turn in philosophy, theory and critique by providing an analysis of the trajectories of academic philosophy and clarifying the relevance of (...)
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  14. Resistance and Expanse in Nuestra América: José Martí, with Édouard Glissant and Gloria Anzaldúa.Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez - 2018 - Diacritics 46 (2):12-29.
    This essay proposes a new way to read José Martí's idea of "Nuestra América," one that focuses on the mode of the call for unity toward liberation and decoloniality. In particular, I offer the arguments for this Latin American unity that would define a collective form of resistance against our colonial past and present (Europe) and an imperialist future (USA). It can be argued that it is extremely difficult to translate the Cuban author's thought by itself to our contemporary struggles, (...)
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  15. Francisco Miró Quesada's Formal Ethics: Interpretative Overview with a Translation.Alonso Villarán - 2018 - Philosophical Forum 49 (2):135-160.
  16. La temprana formación literaria del joven José Gaos en Valencia (1915-1919).A. H. B. - 2016 - Quaderns de Filosofia i Ciència 3 (2):11-16.
    This paper studies in detail about the early years of José Gaos (1900- 1969) and his education in philosophy and literature. Therefore, we know that their studies (academic or not) were not purely “philosophical” in 1915. Literature and philosophy played in Gaos an equally important role. The first real encounter with philosophy happens before he comes to Valencia in 1915; but in this year Gaos also receives a strong education, in aesthetic and literary, through press and philosophical journals, and especially (...)
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  17. Filosofía Analítica en América Latina.Alejandro Tomasini Bassols - 2014 - Revista de Filosofia Aurora 26 (38):167.
    En este artículo diagnostico y rechazo la tesis de que el lenguaje de la filosofía analítica es el inglés. Para ello, realzo el carácter cultural de los productos filosóficos y argumento que su utilidad está esencialmente vinculada a sus respectivos contextos de producción. Enfatizo la importancia de la fi losofía en conexión con las atividades científi cas, políticas, etc., locales. El principal blanco de mi trabajo es la idea, en gran medida propiciada por la globalización y el coloniaje cultural contemporáneos, (...)
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  18. Laclau, Populism, and Emancipation: From Latin America to the U.S. Latino/A Context.Adam Burgos - 2014 - Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 5 (1).
  19. "Una nueva interpretación de la polémica filosófica en La Habana".Vicente Medina - 2014 - Teoria, Critica e Historia. Translated by Vicente Medina.
    La polémica fue un importante evento cultural durante el siglo XIX en Cuba. De 1838 a 1840 se debatieron en los principales periódicos de la isla temas en torno a la metafísica, la epistemología, la ética, la pedagogía y la influencia del eclecticismo de Víctor Cousin. Exploro en esta investigación brevemente algunos de los hechos históricos que antecedieron a esta polémica. Arguyo que es inexacta la interpretación predominante que esta polémica fue motivada por el deseo de independizar a Cuba de (...)
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  20. Latin American Philosophy.Alexander V. Stehn - 2014 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    This encyclopedia article outlines the history of Latin American philosophy: the thinking of its indigenous peoples, the debates over conquest and colonization, the arguments for national independence in the eighteenth century, the challenges of nation-building and modernization in the nineteenth century, the concerns over various forms of development in the twentieth century, and the diverse interests in Latin American philosophy during the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Rather than attempt to provide an exhaustive and impossibly long list of scholars’ (...)
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  21. Out of Earshot of the School: Tocqueville and the “American Philosophical Method".Oisin Keohane - 2013 - In Andrew Taylor & Áine Kelly (eds.), Stanley Cavell, Literature and Film: the Idea of America. London, UK: pp. pp. 132-157.
    This piece examines the 'American philosophical method' as outlined by Tocqueville in the second volume of his 'Democracy in America', and compares it to Emerson's essays via Adorno's 'Essay as Form'. In particular, it looks at how the American way of life, as described by Tocqueville, follows the Cartesian path laid out in Descartes' 'Discourse on Method', and how this relates to Cavell's reading of Emerson as both an inheritor and objector to Cartesianism.
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  22. The Philosophical Polemic in Havana Revisited.Vicente Medina - 2013 - Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 4 (1):32-52.
    The polemic was an important cultural event in 19th-century Cuba. From 1838 to 1840, issues of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, pedagogy, and the influence of Victor Cousin’s eclecticism were discussed in the island’s leading newspapers. A brief historical account preceding the polemic is offered. It is argued that the predominant view of the polemic as motivated by a widespread desire for Cuba’s independence from Spain is misleading — promoting an emancipatory myth. Lastly, it is argued that José de la Luz y (...)
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  23. How to solve the invisibility problem for Spanish and Latin American Philosophy.Susana Inés Nuccetelli Ferraro - 2012 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):129-138.
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  24. Reseña: Alex Ibarra Peña: Filosofía chilena: La tradición analítica en el período de institucionalización de la filosofía.Pedro D. Karczmarczyk - 2012 - Estudios de Filosofía Práctica E Historia de Las Ideas 14 (2):119-121.
    El presente trabajo de Alex Ibarra Peña recoge los resultados de una investigación cuyo tema es la constitución de un campo de estudios ligado a la filosofía analítica en Chile. El autor se propone una tarea informativa y crítica en la que cifra la novedad de su propuesta. En otros términos, la suya es una labor de rescate, de algunos filósofos y corrientes de pensamiento relegados en las narraciones hegemónicas de la institucionalización de la filosofía en Chile y una tarea (...)
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  25. Tres filósofos colombianos.Hernán Ortiz Rivas - 2012 - Bogota: Universidad Libre.
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  26. Reivindicar la memoria: epistemología y metodología sobre la historia de la filosofía en América Latina.Alberto Saladino García - 2012 - México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe.
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  27. Consideration of the Myth as Constitutive of Human Design in the Work of Carlos Astrada.Nora Andrea Bustos - 2011 - Estudios de Filosofía Práctica E Historia de Las Ideas 13 (1):9-16.
    En este trabajo propongo realizar un recorrido acerca de la utilización del concepto de mito en la obra de Carlos Astrada. En primer lugar analizaré sus obras tempranas en donde el filósofo encuentra en la Revolución Rusa la expresión del mito de la humanidad que ha emergido para llevar a ésta hacia su plenitud. Luego tomaré en consideración su obra El Mito Gaucho, la cual constituye una interpretación del Martín Fierro como expresión del mito de los argentinos. Seguidamente me referiré (...)
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  28. El pensamiento filosófico latinoamericano, del Caribe y "latino" (1300-2000): historia, corrientes, temas y filósofos.Enrique D. Dussel, Eduardo Mendieta, M. Bohórquez & L. Carmen (eds.) - 2011 - México, D.F.: Siglo XXI.
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  29. Revisión de cuestiones fundamentales. Qué pregunta la filosofía desde América?Aureliano Ortega Esquivel - 2011 - In Ramírez Barreto & Ana Cristina (eds.), Filosofía Desde América: Temas, Balances y Perspectivas: (Simposio Del Ica 53). Abya Yala, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana.
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  30. Apreciación y crítica del filosofar universalista en América Latina.Roberto Mora Martínez - 2011 - In Adalberto Santana (ed.), Filosofía, Historia de Las Ideas E Ideología En América Latina y El Caribe. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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  31. Rehaciendo la utopía en América Latina.Oscar Wingartz Plata - 2011 - In Ramírez Barreto & Ana Cristina (eds.), Filosofía Desde América: Temas, Balances y Perspectivas: (Simposio Del Ica 53). Abya Yala, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana.
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  32. Rostro y filosofía de nuestra América.Arturo Andrés Roig - 2011 - CABA [i.e. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires]: Una Ventana.
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  33. Latin American Philosophy at a Crossroads. [REVIEW]Elena Ruíz - 2011 - Human Studies.
  34. Normalizing Latin American philosophy.Carlos Alberto Sánchez - 2011 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (2):175-186.
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  35. Philosophy and The Post-Immigrant Fear.Carlos Alberto Sánchez - 2011 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 18 (1):31-42.
    This paper explores and expands upon Jorge Gracia's reasons for the apparent lack of Hispanics in US philosophy. The point is to explain the underrepresentation of Hispanics in philosophy, with a focus on a specific subgroup of Hispanics, namely, "homegrown" US Hispanics. This group wasentirely missing from the "established" ranks in Gracia's census. I propose a phenomenological explanation for this lack, rooted in my experience as ahomegrown US Hispanic. This experience gives rise to a sense of identity described as "post-immigrant." (...)
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  36. Pensamiento y utopía en Uruguay: Varela, Rodó, Figari, Piria, Vaz Ferreira y Ardao.Rubén M. Tani - 2011 - Montevideo: Casa Editorial HUM.
  37. La filosofía en el Paraguay: anticipos, 1814-1918: ensayos de investigación cultural y bibliográfica.Raúl Amaral - 2010 - Asunción, Paraguay: Intercontinental Editora.
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  38. El pragmatismo en cuba (review).Rosa Mayorga - 2010 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (2):327-336.
  39. Review of S. Nuccetelli et al. Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy. [REVIEW]C. Ulises Moulines - 2010 - Metascience (19):457-460.
    This volume contains the most extensive exposition of Latin American philosophy to date. I know of no other comparable anthology on the subject in any language. The width of its scope is quite impressive. At least for this reason, and whatever its shortcomings might be (to some of them I’ll come to speak below), it is a welcome collective work.
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  40. Filosofía de la filosofía.Oscar Nudler (ed.) - 2010 - Madrid: Trotta.
    A diferencia de las disciplinas en las que la reflexión sobre sí mismas no forma parte de ellas, en la filosofía, como lo testimonia la obra de filósofos pertenecientes a distintas épocas y tradiciones, desde Platón y Aristóteles hasta Wittgenstein o Husserl, esa reflexión ocupa una posición central. Dado que no existe un modo canónico de entender y practicar la filosofía, al menos uno que exceda el ámbito de una particular escuela o tradición, la reflexión sobre la propia disciplina resulta (...)
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  41. On the Value of Philosophy: The Latin American Case.Manuel Vargas - 2010 - Comparative Philosophy 1 (1):33-52.
    There is very little study of Latin American Philosophy in the English-speaking philosophical world. This can sometimes lead to the impression that there is nothing of philosophical worth in Latin American philosophy or its history. The present article offers some reasons for thinking that this impression is mistaken, and indeed, that we ought to have more study of Latin American philosophy than currently exists in the English-speaking philosophical world. In particular, the article argues for three things: (1) an account of (...)
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  42. Historia de las ideas e identidad: History of Ideas and Identity.Yamandú Acosta - 2009 - Estudios de Filosofía Práctica E Historia de Las Ideas 11 (1):33-43.
    Se focaliza sobre la Historia de las ideas en América como disciplina y sobre sus aportes a la elucidación de la cuestión de la identidad de nuestra América. Para dar cumplimiento a este objetivo principal, se recurre a la periodización de la misma propuesta por Horacio Cerutti Guldberg, a partir de la cual se avanzan las líneas de reflexión del artículo. Se asume en su potencial heurísitico la tensionalidad y alternancia entre identidad y modernización sobre la que Eduardo Devés Valdés (...)
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  43. Philosophy and Latin American literature.Jesús Aguilar - 2009 - In Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 383–396.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Metaphysics and Epistemology Ethics and Politics Aesthetic Worldviews References Further Reading.
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  44. Cultural studies.Arturo Arias - 2009 - In Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 425–438.
    This chapter contains sections titled: References.
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  45. Some great figures.Gregory D. Gilson & Gregory Pappas - 2009 - In Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell.
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  46. Teaching philosophy.María Cristina González & Nora Stigol - 2009 - In Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 412–424.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Teaching Philosophy as an Academic Field Conceptions of philosophy Teaching Philosophy as Teaching a “Know How” The Status of the Profession in Latin America Some Models for Teaching Philosophy Consequences of the Defense of the Critical Model References Further Reading.
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  47. Identity and philosophy.Jorge Gracia - 2009 - In Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell.
  48. Identity and Latin American philosophy.Jorge Gracia - 2009 - In Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 253–268.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Identity Identity of Latin American Philosophy Four Approaches History of the Controversy Conclusion References Further Reading.
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  49. Reseña de "Mujer y filosofía en El pensamiento iberoamericano. Momentos de una relación difícil" de Raúl FORNET-BETANCOURT.Sara Beatriz Guardia - 2009 - Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana 14 (45):148-151.
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  50. Analytic philosophy.Gustavo Ortiz Millán & Diana I. Pérez - 2009 - In Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell.
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