Practical Holism and Nomadic Thought.Carlos Pereda -2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.detailsThis book presents practical holism as a framework for understanding the ways in which our society and individual lives are affected by moral, legal, political, economic, and other considerations. Only nomadic thought is able to capture the interactions among all those crucial aspects.
Latin american philosophy: Some vices.Carlos Pereda -2006 -Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20 (3):192-203.details: "We are invisible": this melancholic assertion alludes to the "non-place" that we occupy as Latin American philosophers or, in general, as philosophers in the Spanish or Portuguese languages. We tend to survive as mere ghosts teaching courses and writing texts, perhaps some memorable ones, which, however, seldom spark anybody's interest, among other reasons, because almost no one takes the time to read them. In saying this, I do not mean to call upon a useless pathos, nor do I mean (...) to complain, or thrust forth a challenge. I am simply confirming a fact, and a widely acknowledged one at that. I wish to inquire a little into this invisibility. Later I will look into how the experience of our much acclaimed essay may help in fighting it. (shrink)
Lessons in Exile.Carlos Pereda -2018 - Brill | Rodopi.detailsThis book offers an account of exile in terms of the perspectives of morality, politics, literature, anthropology, and history. It also explores the moral implications of exile and how it connects to the meaning of life.
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Koloniale Laster.Carlos Pereda -2024 -Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 72 (1):100-118.detailsIn this article, Carlos Pereda introduces the concept of “colonial reason” and explores how philosophical practices and modes of thought are entwined with colonial political structures of exploitation, exclusion, and oppression. Pereda argues that philosophy in Latin America risks perpetuating and reinforcing the colonial gesture, either by turning to the European centers of thought (thus pursuing debates that always take place elsewhere) or by isolating itself and idealising the “own.” According to Pereda, both approaches fail to dismantle colonial violence within (...) philosophy. In his alternative approach, Pereda outlines principles and methodological criteria for the decolonisation of reason and philosophy. He emphasises the importance of methodological prudence that discerns between innocent, paralysing, and strategic uses of identity expressions and advocates for modes of reading and argumentation that conceive philosophy as an inclusive and ongoing dialogue. In Pereda’s terminology, this entails fostering “permeable reason” that manifests itself through “nomadic thinking,” a form of thinking that is capable of questioning itself and being questioned. (shrink)
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Crítica de la razón arrogante: cuatro panfletos civiles.Carlos Pereda -1999 - México: Taurus.details1. Estrategia de las dos inculturas -- 2. Hay que defender la primacía de la moral? -- 3. La identidad personal en conflicto, el reconocimiento del otro, también en conflicto? -- 4. Historia y desprecio.
El laicismo también como actitud.Carlos Pereda -2006 -Isonomía. Revista de Teoría y Filosofía Del Derecho 24:7-24.detailsLas palabras no pocas veces embrollan, y llevan por el mal camino a creencias, deseos, emociones y, previsiblemente, a acciones. Así, con frecuencia, provocan sucesivos desastres en nuestras vidas. Por eso, a menudo antes de comenzar a discutir sobre cualquier cosa, hay que tener en cuenta la regla de prudencia que advierte.
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Eine wahrscheinliche Methodik von Martin Seel.Carlos Pereda -2023 -Zeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 68 (2):48-53.detailsThe German philosophical tradition has always been open to challenges that can be seen as a continuum. This text discusses Friedrich Nietzsche as a master of wild challenges and Martin Seel as a master of friendly challenges, often blurring the line between them. In doing so, it challenges traditional truth debates by raising questions about the circumstances of truth and the practical aspects of truth orientation. Because Seel uses challenges as hermeneutical resources, he conceives of challenge as a method for (...) encouraging new approaches in philosophical thought. (shrink)
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Mexico Unveiled: Resisting Colonial Vices and Other Complaints.Carlos Pereda &Noell Birondo -2025 - Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Translated by Noell Birondo.detailsCarlos Pereda's "Mexico Unveiled" is a fresh, idiosyncratic synthesis of twentieth-century Mexican philosophy that puts contemporary debates about Mexican identity politics into a critical perspective. In three engaging essays written in a peerless prose style, Pereda considers the persistent influence of European colonialism on Mexican intellectual life, the politics of inclusion, and the changing ideas of what it means to be Mexican. He identifies three "vices"—social habits, customs, and beliefs inherited from European colonialism—that have influenced the development of Mexican national (...) identity: subaltern fervor, craving for novelty, and nationalist zeal. Pereda demonstrates that these three tendencies have led Mexican intellectuals, and Mexican society more generally, to uncritically adopt a politics of exclusion and destructive nationalist attitudes. To do all of this, Pereda invites readers to follow him along as he explores an often surprising series of arguments and counterarguments. Using a strategy he calls "nomadic" thinking—the act of moving beyond our cultural preconceptions and habits of thinking—he guides readers through a number of examples drawn from Mexican philosophy and culture that illustrate these tendencies. At its core, "Mexico Unveiled" is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the philosophical themes that have long occupied Pereda's life and work and Mexican philosophy more generally. (shrink)
Pensamiento uruguayo. Estudios latinoamericanos de historia de las ideas y filosofía de la práctica.Carlos Pereda -2011 -Dianoia 56 (66):230-235.detailsEn esta nota crítica (i) se hace una breve descripción de cada uno de los artículos que componen Orayen: de la forma lógica al significado, (ii) se señalan algunas cuestiones que no están claras en ellos o en las réplicas de Orayen y, (iii) en la medida de lo posible, se indica si los autores desarrollan ulteriormente los problemas abordados en sus artículos. The aim of this critical note is threefold: (i) it briefly describes and comments on each of the (...) articles of Orayen: de la forma lógica al significado; (ii) identifies some issues that may not be clear enough or not fully developed whether in the articles or even in Orayen's replies; (iii) as far as possible, it refers to further studies made by the authors themselves on the same, or quite related, subjects addressed by them in their papers. (shrink)
¿Qué es un buen argumento?Carlos Pereda -1996 -Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 11 (1):7-20.detailsLas preguntas importantes, o que parecen importantes, no tienen por qué tener respuestas importantes, incluso no tienen por qué tener respuestas. Me propongo explorar qué respuestas, importantes o no importantes, puede recibir, si es que puede recibir alguna respuesta, la importante pregunta “¿qué es un buen argumento?”.Important questions, or questions that seem important, need not have important answers, moreover, they need not have answers at all. I propose to explore what answers, whether important or not, we could obtain, if some (...) answer can be obtained at all, to the important question “what is a good argument?”. (shrink)
Un primer candidato a principio para resolver o disolver conflictos.Carlos Pereda -2008 -Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia):93-107.detailsNo cabe duda: ha habido y hay muchas y muy diferentes culturas o, si se prefiere, porque las culturas se suelen constituir y desplegar en el tiempo, muchas y muy diferentes tradiciones. Por difusos que sean sus límites y por vagos que sean sus modos de organizarse internamente, en algún grado, cada cultura, cada tradición, condiciona y, no pocas veces, hasta conforma lo que los miembros de una o varias sociedades, incluso en muy largos períodos, desean, creen, sienten, esperan... y, (...) en consecuencia, actúan. Sin embargo, ¿cuáles son algunos de los efectos más persistentes de esta multiplicidad de culturas, de tradiciones: del tan ruidosamente aplaudido, y también no menos ruidosamente lamentado multiculturalismo? [Fragmento]. (shrink)
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Villoro, Muguerza y el combate a la razón arrogante.Carlos Pereda -2009 -Isegoría 40:169-176.detailsPartiendo de algunas reflexiones de L. Villoro se reconstruyen varios engaños-fetiches muy arraigados: la alternativa consensos/disensos, el entusiasmo nacionalista o los usos y costumbres como la última palabra, un concepto no razonable de razón. Respecto de este último engaño se enriquece la discusión con algunas observaciones de J. Muguerza.