"Over the past 50 years, Jorge J. E. Gracia has been a seminal figure in Latin American philosophy, philosophy of race and ethnicity, metaphysics and ontology, medieval philosophy, and the theory of interpretation. This book commemorates Gracia's legacy with a critical investigation of his deep and wide-ranging impact"--
Over the past 50 years, Jorge J.E. Gracia has been a seminal figure in Latin American philosophy, philosophy of race and ethnicity, metaphysics and ontology, medieval philosophy, and the theory of interpretation. This book commemorates Gracia’s legacy with a critical investigation of his deep and wide-ranging impact.
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PART I LATINO/LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY |
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1 Gracia's Role in Shaping the Field of Latin American Philosophy |
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2 Gracia's Contributions to LatinaXo Philosophy and His Engagement with Philosophy of Liberation |
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3 An Account of Philosophical Vocation in Chile |
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PART II MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY |
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4 The Method of Philosophy: Gracia's Gift of Suarez |
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5 The Ontological Status of Suarez's Objective Concepts |
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6 A Gracian Categorial Analysis of Boethius's On Division |
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7 Tachau on Scotus' Theory of Cognition: How to Expand Gracia's Program on the History of the Problem of Individuation |
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PART III METAPHYSICS AND ONTOLOGY |
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8 Gracia, Individuation, and Thomistic Metaphysics |
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9 Individuals and Communities |
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10 The Ontological Statuses of Features |
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11 Categories and Development in Metaphysics: From Ontology to Objective Logic |
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12 Omnis categoria pulchra est: A Neutralist Conception of Beauty |
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13 From a Distance: Gracia on the Nature and Interpretation of Revelation |
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14 Taking Pierre Menard Seriously: Gracia's Gift of Borges |
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15 The Relevance of Gracia's Genetic Common-Bundle View of Race for Contemporary Medical Research and Practice |
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16 Jorge J. E. Gracia as Aristotelian-Thomistic Organizational Psychologist and Cultural Humanist |
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| Notes |
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| The Gracia Bibliography |
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| Index |
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| About the Contributors |
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William Irwin is Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor at Kings College in Pennsylvania. He is the general editor of The Blackwell and Philosophy Pop Culture Series. He has published articles on intentionalism, allusion, audio books, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy. He is the author of the novel Little Siddhartha: A Sequel.
Jonathan J. Sanford is provost and professor of philosophy at the University of Dallas. He has published widely on philosophical figures and topics, and liberal education. He is especially interested in foundational questions in moral philosophy, as evidenced in his latest book, Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics.
Robert A. Delfino is associate professor of philosophy at St. Johns University. He has published articles on Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Husserl, philosophy of science, personal identity, and human rights. He is a fellow of the Adler-Aquinas Institute, a member of the Board of Advisors for the International Etienne Gilson Society, and the editor of Studies in the History of Western Philosophy, a special series within the Value Inquiry Book Series.
