Bloomsbury Handbook of American Philosophies

Sergio Gallegos Ordorica is Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His research has been published in Journal of Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Synthese, Journal of Mexican Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race and in various edited volumes.Terrance MacMullan is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Washington University. His research has earned the Inter-American Philosophy Award from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. He authored Habits of Whiteness (2009) and From American Empire to Ameríca Cósmica through American Philosophy: Prospero’s Reflection (2023).

• Notes on ContributorsTimelineIntroduction: The Philosophies of America, Sergio Gallegos Ordorica (Associate Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College) and Terrance MacMullan (Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Washington University)Part I: Selfhood and IdentityIntroduction1. The Universal and the Particular in José Martí’s “Our America”, Juan Carlos Gonzales (Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colby College)2. How to Read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”, Heinrik Hellwig (Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Seton Hall)3. On José Vasconcelos’ The Cosmic Race, Ale Gutierrez (University of Oregon)4. Philosophies of George Herbert Mead, Audre Lorde, César Chávez, and Gregory Fernando Pappas, Layla Mayorga (Fordham University)5. Ontological Multiplicity across the America from Gloria Anzaldúa, María Lugones, to Decolonial and Amerindian Indigenous Philosophies, Alan Palacios (Rutgers University)6. Poly-Peopled Indigenous Place in Vine Deloria Jr., V.F. Cordova, and Betasamosake Simpson, Joshua Hall (Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham)7. Randolph Bourne on the Handicapped and the Youth, Daniel J. Brunson (Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies Morgan State University)Part II: Knowing and LearningIntroduction8. Freedom and Friction in Sor Juana's Epistemology, Sergio Gallegos-Ordorica (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College),9. On C.S. Peirce, Catalina Hynes (Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán)10. The European-American Transplantation Theory in the Philosophy of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Ana Gómez Sierra (Purdue University)11. Gonzalez Prada and the Indio as a Social Race, Jorge Sanchez Perez (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta)12. Growth in John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller on Growth, Aleksandra Hernandez (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami)13. Anísio Teixeira’s Regionalist Education, Marianna Poyares (The New School for Social Research)14. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s Indigenous Feminist Epistemology, Paula Landerreche Cardillo (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UNC-Charlotte) Part III: Aesthetics and SpiritualityIntroduction15. Spiritual Praxis in the Americas, Chris Tirres (Buckley Visiting Chair in Latinx Theology, Santa Clara University)16. Mary Whiton Calkins, Lisa Kampen (University of Radboud)17. Anna Julia Cooper and William James on Belief, Darian Spearman (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University)18. Alain Locke and Aesthetics for Inter-American Education, T. J. Bonnet (Florida Atlantic University)19. Latin Philosophy of Archbishop Oscar Romero, Joel Alvarez (University of South Florida)20. Teaching Vine Deloria Jr. through William James, Daniel Campos (Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, CUNY)21. Low Culture, Irony, and Self-Reflexivity in the Women’s Blues, Amanda Dubrule (University of Oregon) Part IV: Ethics and CommunityIntroduction22. Alain Locke and Ralph Perry on Pluralism, Diversity, and Democracy, Anthony Fisher (Lecturer in Philosophy, Gonzaga University)23. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch and the Religious Character of Democracy, Scott Stroud (Professor of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin)24. Luis Villoro and Inter-American Philosophy, Gregory Pappas (Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University)25. Alain Locke, Leonard Harris, and Josiah Royce on Community, Matt Stone (University of Oregon) Part V: Violence and PeaceIntroduction26. Visions of Place, Sovereignty, and Identity in the Americas, Albert Spencer (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University)27. William Whipper, Henry James Senior, and the Problem of Intemperance, Tadd Ruetenik (Professor of Philosophy, St. Ambrose University)28. John Brown, Abolition, and the Question of Violence, Ricardo Friaz, (Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University)29. William Whipper and Black Abolitionism, Dalitso Ruwe,(Assistant Professor of Black Political Thought, Queen’s University)30. Jane Addams on Lynching, Violence and Peace, Marilyn Fisher (Professor Emerita, University of Dayton)31. Mariátegui’s Diagnosis of the Indian Problem in Peru as a Decolonizing Philosophical Project, César Cabezas (Assistant Professor, Temple University)32. Aimé Césaire's Discours sur le Colonialisme, Mickaella Perina, (Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts-Boston)Annotated BibliographyIndex