Detailed CV

SUSANA NUCCETELLI

 Department of Philosophy

St. Cloud State University

Centennial Hall 365M

720 Fourth Ave. South

St. Cloud, MN 56301

Phone: 320-308-5372

E-mail: snuccetelli@stcloudstate.edu

 

Education

 

Ph.D. in Philosophy, City University of New York Graduate Center, 1998

Dissertation: “Externalism and Knowledge of Content”

Dissertation Advisor: Stephen Schiffer

 

Ph.D. in Philosophy cum laude, Universidad de Murcia & Autónoma de Madrid, 1991

Dissertation: “Speech Act Theory”

Dissertation Advisor: Luis Valdés Villanueva

 

B.A. in Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), 1984

 

B.A. in Literature, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), 1977

 

 

Areas of Specialization:

Latino/Latin American Philosophy, Ethics

 

 

Areas of Competence:

Bioethics, Informal Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Language

 

 

Academic Appointments

 

St. Cloud State University, Minnesota           Professor: 2008-

Associate Professor: 2003-08

Assistant Professor: 2000-03

 

New York University             Visiting Research Scholar, Philosophy Department,

2012-2013

 

Other Appointments  

University of Texas Pan American, Associate Professor, 2005-07

Carleton College, Visiting Asst. Professor, 1999-2000

Washington and Lee University, Visiting Asst. Professor, 1998-99

City University of New York, Asst. Professor, 1997-98

City University of New York, Adj. Professor, 1992-1996

 

 

Published Books

 

  1. The Routledge Guidebook to Moore’s Principia Ethica, London and New York: Routledge, 2022.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Guidebook-to-Moores-Principia-Ethica/Nuccetelli/p/book/9781138818491

Survey of major issues of metaethics and normative ethics that figure prominently in Moore’s Principia Ethica.

 

  1. An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press,

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/an-introduction-to-latin-american-philosophy/DC4D108A576BB944AD14D8A6686B4D85

General introduction to this growing area of philosophy. It argues that, when construed as a type of applied philosophy, Latin American philosophy is robust enough to undermine skepticism about its quality.

  1. Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies (with G. Seay), New York: Routledge, 2017. (2e. forthcoming 2022)

Monograph on bioethical controversies ranging from issues at life’s end and its beginning, the biotechnological revolution, and biomedical research on humans and animals, to justice in health care and the principlism-versus-casuistry debate.

 

  1. Ethical Naturalism: Current Debates (with G. Seay), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Edited volume of new essays. Contributors include Frank Jackson, Michael Smith, Gilbert Harman, David Copp, Michael Ridge, Richard Joyce, Robert Audi, Robert Shaver, Terence Cuneo, Sergio Tenenbaum, and Roger Crisp.

 

  1. Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy (with O. Schutte and O. Bueno), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Comprehensive reference volume providing updated discussions of major issues in Latin American philosophy. It features 36 essays by Mario Bunge, Larry Blum, Jorge Gracia, Newton da Costa, and Horacio Arlo Costa among others.

 

  1. Themes from G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics (with G. Seay), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Edited volume of new essays by Crispin Wright, Ernest Sosa, Ram Neta, William G. Lycan, C. A. J. Coady, Paul Snowdon, Michael Huemer, Roy Sorensen, Stephen Darwall, Terry Horgan, Mark Timmons, Richard Fumerton, Charles R. Pigden, Robert Shaver, Joshua Gert, and Jonathan Dancy.

 

  1. Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics (with G. Seay), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

This anthology offers essential readings in contemporary philosophy of language. Its selection has been recommended by Colin McGinn in his Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2015).

 

  1. How to Think Logically (with G. Seay), New York: Penguin Academics, 2007, 2nd Pearson 2011.

Textbook intended for introductory courses in logic and critical thinking. Its scope is beyond that of the usual textbook, since it addresses issues of normative reasoning, the virtues of belief, and epistemic circularity.

 

  1. Latin American Philosophy: An Introduction with Readings (with G. Seay), Upper Saddle Brook, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Textbook offering brief introductions to some philosophical issues that figure prominently in Latin American thought. Each of them is followed by a selection of primary sources.

 

  1. New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, a Bradford Book, 2003.

Edited volume of new essays by Crispin Wright, Anthony Brueckner, Martin Davies, Fred Dretske, Michael McKinsey, Brian McLaughlin, Susana Nuccetelli, Joseph Owens, Jessica Brown, Gary Ebbs, Kevin Falvey, Richard Fumerton, Sandford Goldberg, and Matthias Steup.

 

  1. Latin American Thought: Philosophical Problems and Arguments, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002.

Winner of “Outstanding Academic Title, 1998-2002” by Choice Magazine, this monograph analyses some main problems and arguments in Latin American thought.

 

Published & Forthcoming Articles

  • “G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming 2022.
  • “Marx on Bolivar,” book excerpt, APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, 19, 1, 2019, pp. 48-49.
  • “The Quality-of-Latin-American-Philosophy Debate,” in World Philosophies in Dialogue: Perspectives and Challenges, edited by Cosimo Zene, Mimesis Edizioni, Italy, 2019.
  • “The Evolutionary Study of Religion,” in “Human History: Atheism,” pp. 387-407, Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy, edited by Joseph Kotersi and Graham Oppy, Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1919.
  • “Should Analytical Descriptivists Worry about the Naturalistic Fallacy?” In The Naturalistic Fallacy, edited by Neil Sinclair, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • “Latino Philosophy,” in Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies, edited by Illan Stavans, pp. 199-218, New York: Oxford University Press: 2018. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190691202.001.0001.
  • “Contraception and Religious Freedom: A Philosophical Analysis of Zubik v Burwell,” The APA Newsletter on Medicine and Philosophy 18, 1, Fall 2018: 7-10.
  •  “Normative Skepticism,” pp. 367-380 in Blackwell Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, edited by Graham Oppy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.
  • “What the ‘Nina’-Film Controversy Shows about African Heritage in the Americas,” The APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Oct. 2017: 4-7.

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/60044C96-F3E0-4049-BC5A-271C673FA1E5/HispanicV17n1.pdf

  •  “Abortion for Fetal Defects: Two Current Arguments,” Journal of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 20, 3, 2017: 447-450. DOI 10.1007/s11019-017-9765-2
  •  “Repealing Obamacare: An Injustice to Hispanics,” The APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 16, 2, spring 2017: 4-6.
  • “Race and Identity in Latin American Philosophy,” in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, edited by Naomi Zack, Oxford University Press, 2017: 114-124.
  • “Latin American Philosophers: Some Recent Challenges to Their Intellectual Character,” Informal Logic 36, 2, 2016: 121-135.
  • “An Open Question for Pragmatic Naturalism,” in Companion to Naturalism, edited by Julio do Carmo, Pelotas, Brazil: UFPEL University Press, 2015: 229-237. DOI: http://eprints.rclis.org/29578/1/Livro%20Novo.pdf
  • “Ethnic Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy,” in Debating Race: Philosophical Dialogues on Race, Ethnicity, and Hispanic/Latino Identity: Philosophical Dialogues Between Jorge Gracia and His Critics, edited by Ivan Jaksic, Columbia University Press, 2015: 195-202.
  • “Latin American Philosophy,” Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, edited by Richard Duncan, Oxford University Press, 2014. Update forthcoming 2018. DOI: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0242.xml
  • “Pragmatic Naturalism and the Evolutionary Quasi-Debunking of Morality,” Journal of Criminal Justice Ethics 2, 2013: 175-184.
  • “Latin American Philosophy: Metaphilosophical Foundations,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by E. Zalta, 2013, updated 2017, 2021. DOI:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/latin-american-metaphilosophy/

  • “Latin American Ethics,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, update forthcoming 2018, 2970-2979.

DOI: 10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee648

  • “How to Solve the Invisibility Problem for Spanish and Latin American Philosophy,” Teorema 31, 1, 2012: 129-138.
  • “Does Analytical Ethical Naturalism Rest on a Mistake?” (with G. Seay), in Ethical Naturalism: Current Debates, edited by Nuccetelli and Seay, Cambridge University Press, 2012: 131-43. [Reprinted in Foundations of Moral Philosophy: Readings in Metaethics, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Andrew T. Forcehimes, Oxford University Press, 2016.]
  • “Reasoning, Normativity, and Experimental Philosophy” (with G. Seay), American Philosophical Quarterly 49, 2, 2012: 151-163.
  • “Two Puzzles in Metaethics,” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Ethics 1, 2010: 15-16.
  • “Gracia on Ethnic Philosophy,” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 1, Oct. 2010: 36-43.
  • “Sosa’s Moore and the New Dogmatists,” Metaphilosophy 40, 2, 2009: 180-86 (published with Ernest Sosa’s reply).
  • “Latin American Philosophy” (with O. Schutte and O. Bueno), in Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy, edited by Nuccetelli et al., Oxford: Wiley Blackwell 2009: 343-356.
  • “Introduction” (with O. Schutte and O. Bueno), Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy, edited by Nuccetelli et al., Oxford: Blackwell, 2009: 1-26.
  • “Ethnic-Group Terms” (with Rod Stewart), in Nuccetelli et al. Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy, edited by S. Nuccetelli et al., Oxford: Blackwell, 2009: 241-52.
  • “Latin American Philosophy,” update of the Latin American philosophy chapter in Ninian Smart’s World Philosophies, 2nd, London: Routledge, 2008: 353-69.
  • “Latin American Feminist Philosophy,” Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008.
  • “What’s Right with the Open Question Argument?” (with G. Seay), in Themes from G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, edited by S. Nuccetelli and G. Seay, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007: 261-82.
  • “Teaching Quinean Indeterminacy,” Discourse 7, 1, 2007: 125-33.
  • “What Is an Ethnic Group?” in Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity, edited by J. Gracia, Cornell University Press, 2007: 137-51.
  • “Reference and Ethnic-Group Terms,” Inquiry 47, 6, 2004: 528-44.
  • “Reason Among the Mayans,” APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 03, 2, Spring 2004: 101-13.
  • “Is ‘Latin American Thought’ Philosophy?”Metaphilosophy 4, 2003: 524-37.
  • “Knowing that One Knows What One is Talking About,” in New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge, edited by S. Nuccetelli, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003: 169-84.
  • “Is Self-Knowledge an Entitlement? And Why Should We Care?” Southern Journal of Philosophy 39, 2001: 143-55.
  • “‘Hispanics,’ ‘Latinos,’ and ‘Ibero-Americans’: Naming or Describing?” Philosophical Forum 32, 2001: 175-88.
  • “Relieving Pain and Foreseeing Death” (with G. Seay), Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28, 2000: 19-25.
  • “What Anti-Individualists Cannot Know A Priori,” Analysis 59, 1999: 48-51.
  • “Principles of Language Use,” Journal of Pragmatics 18, 1992: 59-69.
  • “Recognizing Performative Verbs.” Language, Literature, and Society 3, 1990: 149-60.

 

Work in Progress

  1. “Moore’s Principa Ethica,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming 2022.
  2. of Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies (with G. Seay), New York: Routledge, 2017 (forthcoming 2022).

 

Book Reviews

 

  1. Pre-publication peer review of Pluralizing Philosophy’s Past: Explorations in the Histories of Ideas, edited by Amber Griffioen; Dr. Marius Backmann, Palgrave-MacMillan, June 2021.

 

  1. New edition peer review of Critical Thinking, by L. Vaughn, Oxford University Press, June 2021.

 

  1. Pre-publication (blind) peer review of Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics, edited by Chritian Miller, Bloomsbury, 2020.

 

  1. Review report for the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies, “Latin American Philosophy,” v. 74, University of Texas Press, 2020. https://hlasopac.loc.gov/

 

  1. Pre-publication peer review of A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture Amherst College Press, 2019.

 

  1. Review report for the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies, “Latin American Philosophy,” v. 73, University of Texas Press, 1919. https://hlasopac.loc.gov/

 

  1. “Latin American Philosophy,” Oxford Bibliographies, edited by Duncan Pritchard, Oxford University Press,   <www.oxfordbibliographies.com>. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0242

 

  1. Review of The Furniture of the World: Essays in Ontology and Metaphysics, Guillermo Hurtado and Oscar Nudler eds. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Sept. 21 2012.

http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/33605-he-furniture-of-the-world-essays-in-ontology-and-metaphysics/

 

  1. Review of Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Ian Ravenscroft ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Philosophical Quarterly, 61, no. 244, 2011: 642-45.

 

  1. Review of Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution, Rick Lopez (Durham NC: Duke University Press 2010). Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, v. 2, issue 2, 2011: 67-69.

 

  1. Review of Two-Dimensional Semantics, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Joseph Macia eds. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006). Dialectica 63, 1, 2009: 94-99.

 

Current Editorial Works

 

  1. “Philosophy of the Americas,” area editor, PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy, edited by David Chalmers and David Bourget, 2010-present.

 

  1. “Latin American Philosophy,” sub-area editor, PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy, edited by David Chalmers and David Bourget, 2010-present.

Some Invited Talks

  • “Skepticism about Latin American Philosophy,” invited talk, Union College, 10/7/2021.
  • “Two Early Models of Latin American Identity: Mestizaje versus European Transplantation,” Keynote speaker, The 5th Latinx Philosophy (Virtual) Conference, Metropolitan Stat University of Denver, 10/30/2020.
  • “What African-American and Latin American Philosophers Could Learn from the ‘Nina’ Film Controversy,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Jan. 1919.
  • “Teaching Critical Thinking,” AILACT session at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, Jan. 1919.
  • “Repealing the Obamacare: Three Justice Perspectives,” Philosophy Department, St. Cloud State University, Feb. 22, 2017.
  • “Latin American Philosophers: Some Recent Challenges to Their Intellectual Character,” Keynote Speaker. Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 19, 2016.
  • “The Quality of Latin American Philosophy Debate.” Workshop on World Philosophies, SOAS, University of London, June 29-30, 2015.
  • “Can Critical Thinking Be Taught? And Why Educators Should Care?” School of Education Colloquium, St. Cloud State University, Apr. 2014.
  • “Abortion,” (with G. Seay). Philosophy Department Colloquium, St. Cloud State University, Nov. 27, 2013.
  • “Cognitive Diversity and the Justification of Inference Rules.” Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, April 29, 2011.
  • “Reasoning, Normativity, and Experimental Philosophy” (with G. Seay). Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, July 15, 2010.
  • “Semantic Naturalism and the New Naturalistic Fallacy.” Department of Philosophy colloquium, University of Minnesota at Duluth, Apr. 2009.
  • “Transparency and the Open Question Argument.” Department of Philosophy, Lehman College, City University of New York, Feb. 2009.
  • “What Is Latin American Philosophy?” Keynote address. Virginia Humanities Conference, Radford University, Apr. 2008.
  • “Skepticism and G. E. Moore’s ‘Proof’.” Faculty colloquium, Department of Philosophy, St. Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, Feb. 2008.
  • “Latin American Philosophy: For and Against.” Faculty colloquium, Department of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, Jan. 2008.
  • “Moore’s Open Question Argument Reconsidered” (with G. Seay). Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Jun. 2007.
  • “Latin American Philosophy in the USA.” Faculty colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Facultad de Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, Jun. 2007.
  • “The Semantics of Ethnic-Group Terms.” Conference on Black and Latino Identity, State University of New York at Buffalo, Apr. 2005.
  • “Is There a Latin American Philosophy?” Faculty colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, Apr., 2005.
  • “Hispanics as an Ethnic Group.” Stearns County Historical Museum, St. Cloud, MN, Feb. 2004.
  • “Latin American Philosophy.” Keynote address. First National Conference on Latin American Philosophy. Texas State University at San Marcos, Oct. 2003.
  • “Latin American Philosophy vs. Philosophy in Latin America.” Faculty colloquium, Moorhead State University, MN, Apr. 2002.
  • “What Kind of Rationality Is Maya Rationality?” Faculty colloquium, Moorhead State University, MN, Apr. 2002.
  • “Intention and Foreseen Harms: A Moral Puzzle for Physicians.” Faculty colloquium, St. Cloud State University, MN, Nov. 2000 (with G. Seay).
  • “Knowledge of Semantic Content.” Faculty colloquium, California State University at Long Beach, Mar. 2000.
  • “Meaning and the World.” Faculty colloquium, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Feb. 2000.
  • “Propositional Attitudes.” Faculty colloquium, Colby College, Waterville, ME, Jan. 2000.
  • “A Moral Puzzle Reconsidered” (with Gary Seay). Faculty colloquium, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, January 25, 2000.
  • “Semantic Content and the Externalism/Internalism Debate.” Public talk, Asociación de Investigaciones Éticas, Rosario (Argentina), Jun. 1999.
  • “Is the Physician Justified by Double Effect?” Public talk, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, New York University, Mar. 1999.
  • “Natural-Kind Terms.” Faculty colloquium, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, Feb. 1999.
  • Linguistic Meaning and Mental Content.” Faculty colloquium, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, Jan. 1999.
  • “Object Dependence and Knowledge of Content.” Faculty colloquium, East Carolina University at Greenville, NC, Oct. 1998.
  • “Mental Content.” Faculty colloquium, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, Apr. 1998.

 

Talks at Conferences

 

  1. “On What African American and Latin American Philosophers Can Learn from the Nina Simone Controversy,” Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, New York, Jan. 2019.

 

  1. “On How to Think Logically,” (with Gary Seay). Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Washington DC, Jan. 2016.

 

  1. “Experimental Philosophy and the Evidence of Cognitive Diversity.” Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December 2012.

 

  1. “Naturalism and the Structure of the Web of Belief.” Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December 2012.

 

  1. “Reflective Equilibrium and Cognitive Diversity.” Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Seattle, April 2012.

 

  1. “The Semantic-Naturalist Fallacy” (with Gary Seay). Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, March 2011.

 

  1. “Inference and Cognitive Diversity” (with Gary Seay). Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, special session at the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division Meeting, Minneapolis, March 2011.

 

  1. “Why the ‘Naturalistic Fallacy’ is a Fallacy After All.” Annual Ethics Conference of the New Jersey Philosophical Association, Rutherford, NJ, Apr. 2010.

 

  1. “Reasoning, Normativity, and Experimental Philosophy” (with Gary Seay). Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, special session at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division Meeting, New York, Dec. 2009.

 

  1. “The Autonomy of Critical Thinking” (with Gary Seay). Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, special session at the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Feb. 2009.

 

  1. “Is There a Naturalistic Fallacy?” (with Gary Seay). Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, special session at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, Dec. 2008.

 

  1. “Against Semantic Naturalism in Ethics” (with Gary Seay). Annual meeting of the New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, Paramus, NJ, Nov. 2008.

 

  1. “Sosa’s Moore and the Dogmatists.” Session on the philosophy of Ernest Sosa, Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, Dec. 2007. Respondent: Ernest Sosa.

 

  1. “The Naturalistic Fallacy: What Moore Should Have Said” (with Gary Seay). Felician College Ethics Conference, Lodi, NJ, Mar. 2007.

 

  1. “What’s Right with the Open Question Argument?” Colloquium session, Pacific Div. Meeting, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, Apr. 2007.

 

  1. “Can Moore’s Open Question Argument Be Defended?” (with Gary Seay). Long Island Philosophical Society, St. John’s University, New York, Oct. 21, 2006.

 

  1. “Is There a Colonial Latin American Philosophy?” Symposio Internacional: Artes, Ciencias y Letras en la América Colonial, Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires, Nov. 2005.

 

  1. “Teaching Latin American Philosophy.” Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought, Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Boston, Dec. 2004.

 

  1. “The Epistemic Practices of the Maya.” APA Committee on Hispanics in Philosophy, Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 2003.

 

  1. “Physicalism and Vague Singulars.” Commentary at colloquium session, Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Cleveland, Apr. 2003.

 

  1. “Paradoxical Thinkers.” Commentary at colloquium session, Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Seattle, Mar. 2002.

 

  1. “Reference and Ethnic-Group Terms.” Colloquium session, Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Chicago, May 2002.

 

  1. “Teaching Latin American Thought.” Panel discussion, Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Chicago, May 2001.

 

  1. “What Counts as Philosophy? Expanding the Canon.” Panel discussion, the Minnesota Philosophical Society annual meeting, St. Joseph, MN, Sep. 2001.

 

  1. “‘Hispanics,’ ‘Latinos,’ and ‘Iberoamericans’: Naming or Describing?” Minnesota Philosophical Society annual meeting, Oct. 2000. Commentator: Michael Root.

 

  1. “A Millean View of Ethnic-Group Names.” Critic in author-meets-critics session, Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, New York, Dec. 2000.  Respondent: Jorge Gracia.

 

  1. “Is the Physician Justified by Double Effect?” (with Gary Seay). North Carolina Philosophical Society, Wake Forest University, February 13, 1999.

 

  1. “Michael Tooley’s on the Analysis of Knowledge.” Commentary in colloquium session, Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Berkeley, CA, Mar. 1999.

 

  1. “Double Effect and Special Duties” (with Gary Seay). Long Island Philosophical Society, Stony Brook, NY, April 24, 1999.

 

  1. “Twin-Earth Skepticism.” Colloquium paper, Central Division Meeting, New Orleans, American Philosophical Association, Apr. 1999. Commentor: Gary Ebbs.

 

  1. “Anti-individualism and A Priori” Session paper read at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Aug. 1998.

 

  1. “The Apriority of Anti-Individualism and Self-Knowledge.” Session paper read at spring meeting of the New Jersey Regional Philosophical Society, Felician College, Nov. 1997.

 

  1. “Uso en semántica formal.” Session paper read at Conference on Natural and Formal Languages, Universidad Central de Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 1990.

 

 

 Referee

                                                                                                                     

For Journals and Encyclopedias

 

Dialectica

Erkenntnis

Ethics 

History of Philosophy Quarterly

Informal Logic

Inter-American Journal of Philosophy

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Journal of Philosophical Research

Mind

Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (APA)

Philosophical Studies

The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

The Philosophical Quarterly

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Synthese

                                                                                                                       

 

 

For Publishers

 

Amherst University Press (1)

Blackwell (1)

Bloomsbury Books (4)

Hackett (1)

Oxford University Press (2)

Routledge (1)

Transaction Publishers (1)

University of Toronto Press (1)

Zeta Books (1)

           

 

Research Grants

 

  1. E.H. Annual Workshops, director. “Humanities Perspectives on Latin American Thought and Philosophy.” University of Texas – Pan American, April 2006-March 2007.

 

  1. E.H. Summer Institute, co-director (with Jorge Gracia). “Latin American Philosophy: The Appropriation of European Ideas in Latin America.” State University of New York at Buffalo, June 2005.

 

  1. E.H. Summer Stipend, 2001. For research & travel in completion of book, Latin American Thought.

 

  1. E.H. Summer Seminar (Columbia University), 1999. “Cultural Relativism and Human Rights.”

 

  1. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)/Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (France). 1982-June 1992. Research in semantics of natural language at Université de Paris XI and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

 

  1. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain), Summer 1990. Visiting Research Scholar at City University of New York. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)/Conseil de Récherche en Sciences (Canada). Fall 1989. Research in analytic philosophy at Université du Québec, Trois Rivières.

 

  1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Summer 1989. Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at University of California at Berkeley.

 

  1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. June 1989. Research in philosophy of language at University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

 

  1. Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (Spain). 1986-88. Doctoral Fellowship at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

 

 

Other Honors

 

  1. Invited Lecturer, Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy. New Brunswick, NJ. Summer Institute for Minority Students, July 2005. Topic: “Individuating Ethnic Groups.”

 

  1. Invited Lecturer, Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy. New Brunswick, NJ. Summer Institute for Minority Students, June 2003. Topic: “Semantic Externalism.”

 

  1. Invited Lecturer, Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy. New Brunswick, NJ. Summer Institute for Minority Students, July 2002. Topic: “Skepticism in Epistemology.”

 

  1. Invited Foreign Professor. Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica, Madrid. Research program: “Estancias de Científicos y Tecnólogos Extranjeros en Espaňa.” Academic years 1989-1990 and 1990-1991.

 

 

 

Service to the Profession

 

  1. Participant at the Faculty Seminar in Philosophy and Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, 2016- .

 

  1. Representative of the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking at the Eastern div. meeting, 2014-2017.

 

  1. Member of the American Philosophical Association Board of Officers and its Executive Director’s Council, 2013-2016.

 

  1. Chair, American Philosophical Association Committee of Inclusiveness in the Profession, 2013-2016.

 

  1. Member, American Philosophical Association Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, 2013-2015.

 

  1. Associate Chair, American Philosophical Association Committee of Inclusiveness in the Profession, 2012-2013.

 

  1. Member, Board of Directors, Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking 2009-2012.

 

  1. Summer Stipend Panelist, NEH Division of Research Programs, Oct.-Nov. 2011.

 

  1. Essay Prize Publicist, Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking 2009-2011, 2011-2012.

 

  1. Member, Editorial Board, Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 2010-.

 

  1. Chair, APA Committee on Hispanics in Philosophy 2002-2008.

 

  1. Member, American Philosophical Association Committee on Inclusiveness 2003-2008 (Ex officio).

 

  1. Member, American Philosophical Association Committee on Hispanics in Philosophy 2000-02.

 

 

Book Blurbs

                                                                                                   

  1. Jorge Gracia, Latinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).

 

  1. A. Sanchez and J. Simon eds., Transformative Philosophy after John H. Haddox: Essays Honoring 50 Years of Mexican, American, and Social Thought (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).

 

  1. Gregory D. Gilson and Irving W. Levinson eds., Latin American Positivism: Theory and Practice (Lexington Books, 2012).

 

 

Translations

 

  1. Juan Bautista Alberdi, “Bases and Starting Points for the Political Organization of the Argentine Republic” (with G. Seay), in Nuccetelli and Seay, eds., Latin American Philosophy, 2004.

 

  1. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, “Prologue to the Members of the Congregation” (with G. Seay), in Nuccetelli and Seay, eds., Latin American Philosophy, 2004.

 

  1. David Stove, Popper and After: Popper y Después (Madrid: Tecnos, 1995).

 

  1. George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion: Ensayos de Poesía y Religión (Madrid: Cátedra, 1992).

 

  1. Nicholas Rescher, Rationality: La Racionalidad (Madrid: Tecnos, 1992).

 

  1. Stephen Priest, Philosophy of Mind: Filosofía de la Mente (Madrid: Cátedra, 1991).

 

  1. Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, Relevance: La Relevancia (Madrid: Visor, 1989).

 

Courses Taught

 

Epistemology – Washington & Lee U., Carleton College, SCSU

Ethics – SCSU

Ethics and the Law – John Jay College/CUNY

Contemporary Moral Problems – Lehman College/CUNY

Critical Reasoning — online course, with Quality Matters rubric since 2013, SCSU

Critical Reasoning – SCSU

Introduction to Logic – Medgar Evers College/CUNY, Washington & Lee U.

Introduction to Philosophy – Washington & Lee U., John Jay College/CUNY

Latin American Philosophy – Washington & Lee U., Carleton College, SCSU

Latin American Thought and Culture – SCSU

Metaphysics – Carleton College, SCSU

Modern Philosophy – Carleton College

Moral Problems and Theories – SCSU

Multicultural Philosophy – SCSU

Philosophy of Language – SCSU

Philosophy of Mind – Washington & Lee U., Carleton College, SCSU

Philosophy of Science – Carleton College, SCSU

Symbolic Logic – Washington & Lee U., SCSU

 

 

Advanced Seminars Taught

 

Latin American Philosophy – Washington & Lee University

Externalism and Self-Knowledge – Carleton College

Minds, God and Knowledge – Carleton College

Language, Minds and Truth – SCSU

Rationality – SCSU

Normativity – SCSU

  1. E. Moore’s Ethics and Epistemology – SCSU

Bioethics – SCSU

Latin American Philosophy – SCSU (current)

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