This week in my Mexican philosophy class, I am teaching Vasconcelos’s La raza cósmica (The Cosmic Race), a text in which Vasconcelos (not entirely unlike Du Bois in his “The […]

Dear Friends: Today we are proud to announce that we are officially launching the Journal of Mexican Philosophy, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing advanced scholarship on Mexican philosophy. The […]

So it looks like it’s been exactly one year since our last post, and while there is no excuse for the long pause, I could give you a long explanation. […]

Now that we just finished our “Authors Meets Critics” on Gustavo Leyva’s La filosofía en México en el siglo XX – a book written in Spanish by our Mexican colleague […]

For my Introduction to Philosophy, which I’m completely revamping for my new gig at Occidental, I will be asking my students to write a short paper toward the end of […]

Not too long ago, Carlos tweeted that we were going to start working on the second volume of our anthology. Even though we’ve been talking about it for a year […]

Recently, Guillermo Hurtado of the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at UNAM asked me to co-author the 2020 update of his 2016 entry “Philosophy in Mexico” for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. As some […]

Though it has been a while since our last post, I wanted to announce that I have accepted the position of Associate Professor of Philosophy at Occidental College, starting Fall […]

The following is a guest post by our good friend Julio Covarrubias. (You can find Alfonso Reyes’s “Cartilla Moral” referred to below here: https://regeneracion.mx/cartilla-moral-alfonso-reyes/) Spectres of Vasconcelos… in AMLO’s “Cuarta Transformacion”? […]

But what, then, is a journal? What is its purpose?  In the academic context, the answer would seem relatively straightforward. The purpose of a journal is to invite contributors to share […]