Albany, NY: SUNY Press, in press
Systematic discussion of the nature and possibility of the philosophical interpretation of art. It includes interpretations of 17 of the artist's works.
Oxford: Blackwell, in press
Systematic discussion of social issues that affect Latinos/Hispanics in American Society.
Mexico City: Paidós, 2006, pp.
Revised and expanded trans. into Spanish of Hispanic/Latino Identity:
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005; 205 pp.
Old Wine in New Skins: The Role of Tradition in Communication, Knowledge, and Group Identity
Miwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2003; 134 pp.
The Aquinas Lecture, 2003.
Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2003, 134 pp. This is the written version of Marquette University's Aquinas Lecture delivered on Feb. 23, 2003. The book examines the nature of tradition and how a proper metaphysical understanding of this notion as a kind of action clarifies its various uses and helps us understand in turn how communication, the preservation of knowledge, and group identity take place.
¿Qué son las categorias?
Madrid: Ediciones Encuentro, 2002; 86 pp.
This deals primarily with the metaphysical/ontological issues posed by categories.
Filozofija i njena
istorija
Belgrade: Filip Visnjic, 2002
(Trans. into Serbo-Croatian of previous title, by Svetozar Sindelic)
Suárez on Individuation
Second Printing. Milwaukee:
Marquette University Press 2002, 302 pp.
Translation of
Suárez's Disputation V: Individual Unity and Its Principle, with
introduction, notes, bibliography, indexes, and an extensive glossary of
technical terms.
New York: Palgrave of St. Martin's Press, 2001; 87 pp.
This book presents a philosophical understanding of the conditions that must be satisfied by the interpretation of texts which are regarded as revealed by religious communities. It has chapters on revelation, interpretation, various kinds of hermeneutical views (authorial, audiencial, literary, sociological, and theological), definitive interpretations, and the relativity of interpretations. It argues for the preeminence of theological interpretations, for the logical possibility but the factual difficulty of definitive interpretations of revelations, and for the relativity of, but not relativisim in, these interpretations.
Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective
Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, XX, 236 pp.
This book presents a relational theory of Hispanic/Latino identity. In addition it discusses such topics as the nature of ethnicity, the name for Hispanics/Latinos, the origin of Hispanic/Latino identity, the role of mestizaje in Hispanic/Latino identity, the history of discussions of Latin American identity in Latin America, and the situation of Hispanics/Latinos in American philosophy today. The book is interdisciplinary, although it has a philosophical slant. It takes into account recent research in various disciplines: anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and Latino studies.
Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1999, XX, 247 pp.
(Trans. into Chinese by Dao Xu Hao, in progress. )
This book provides an answer to why metaphysics always recovers from the many attacks to which it has been subjected throughout its history by offering the first systematic analysis of the nature of the discipline. This is done by examining its object, method, aim, and the kind of propositions of which it is composed. Apart from a new conception of metaphysics and an explanation of the resilience of the discipline, the book presents a novel understanding of the nature and ontologial status of categories, an analysis of the nature of reductionism and its role in philosophy, and a discussion and criticism of the main views concerning the nature of metaphysics developed in the history of philosophy.
La filosofía y su historia: Cuestiones de historiografía filosófica
Mexico City: Universidad National Autónoma de México, 1998(Trans. into Spanish of previous title, by Juan José Sánchez, Filosofía y su historia: Cuestiones de historiografía filosófica)
Filosofía Hispánica: Concepto, orígen y foco historiográfico
Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 1998
This book presents a conception of the notion of Hispanic philosophy and includes articles on its identity, the character of Iberian scholasticism, Ibero-American philosophical identity, and the idea of liberation in Latin American philosophy.
Texts: Ontological Status, Identity, Author, Audience
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996, 225 pp.
This book completes the theory of textuality whose logical and epistemological elements are presented in the previous book. It provides an ontological characterization of texts; it explores the issues raised by the identity of various texts; and it presents a view of the identity and function of authors and audiences and of their relations to texts individuality.
A Theory of Textuality: The Logic and Epistemology
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995, 327 pp.
The book presents the logical and epistemological dimensions of a theory of textuality which takes into account the relevant views of both analytic and Continental thinkers and also of major historical figures. It begins with a logical analysis of the notion of text resulting from a definition that serves as the basis for the distinctions subsequently drawn between texts on the one hand and language, artifacts, art objects, and works on the other; and for the classification of texts according to modality and function. The second part of the book uses the conclusions of the first part to solve the various epistemological issues which have been raised about texts by philosophers of language, semioticians, hermeneuticists, literary critics, semanticists, aestheticians, and historiographers.
Philosophy and Its History: Issues in
Philosophical Historiography
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992,
409 pp.
1994 Eastern Division APA Book
session devoted to it
This book is a systematic treatment of the
main issues involved in philosophical historiography. It deals with such
topics as the relation of philosophy to its history, the role of value
judgments in historical accounts, the value of the history of philosophy
for philosophy, the nature and role of texts and their interpretation in
the history of philosophy, historiographical method, and the stages of
development and progress of philosophical ideas. I defend two main
theses. The first is that the history of philosophy must be done
philosophically, that is, it must include philosophical judgments. The
second is that one way to bring rapprochement between Anglo-American and
Continental philosophy is through the study of the history of philosophy
and its historiography.
The Metaphysics of Good and Evil According to Suárez: Disputations X and XI
With Douglas Davis. Munich and Vienna: Philosophia Verlag, 1989, 294 pp.
Translation of Suárez's Disputations X and XI with a detailed introduction, notes, bibliography, indexes and a glossary of technical terms.
Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1988; XX, 315 pp.
1992 John N. Findlay Prize in Metaphysics.
The book begins, in the Introduction, by distinguishing six fundamental issues in the metaphysics of individuality: intension, extension, ontological status, the principle of individuation, discernibility, and reference. Each of the subsequent chapters addresses one of these issues. The book closes with a general assessment, bibliographies, and indexes. I argue, among other things, that ignorance of the complex interrelationships between the six identified issues leads to confusion and misunderstanding. In addition, I defend a primitive conception of individuality as non-instantiability, a neutral stance with respect to the ontological status of individuality, an existential principle of individuation, a spatio-temporal principle of discernibility and a tripartite theory of proper names and other individual-referencing expressions.
Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages
Analytica Series München and Washington, DC: Philosophia Verlag and Catholic University of America Press, 1984; 2nd ed., Philosophia Verlage, 1988, 303 pp.
The book begins with a systematic chapter on the problem of individuation. Chapter 2 discusses Boethius and the metaphysical and logical approaches to the problem he initiates. Chapter 3 deals with the metaphysical views of Thierry of Chartres, Gilbert of Potiers and others. Chapter 4 takes up the logical view of Peter Abailard. The last chapter summarizes the book's findings.
Introducción al problema de la individuación en la alta edad media
Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1867; 382 pp.
Trans into Spanish of previous title, by Benjamin Valdivia, rev. by Mauricio Beuchot.
Suárez on Individuation
Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 1982, 302 pp.
Translation of Suárez's Disputation V: Individual Unity and Its Principle, with introduction, notes, bibliography, indexes, and an extensive glossary of technical terms.
