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 […]

Recently Carlos and I announced our next joint project (see my last post) – the second installment of our translation project. Today we want to announce a new joint project […]

A regular criticism of our anthology – nicely articulated in an upcoming NDPR review – is that there are almost no women in it. We’ve acknowledged this criticism before and […]

Lately I find myself returning to Neruda’s line: “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” But I’m not thinking about lost love, but something closer to the loss of innocence. […]

We would just like to share the following article by Guillermo Hurtado about our Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Essential Readings. https://www.razon.com.mx/la-filosofia-mexicana-del-otro-lado-de-la-frontera/ A special thanks to Hurtado for his ongoing […]