PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLICATIONS
Books
Imagination in Inquiry: A Philosophical Model and its Applications (being completed)
This book explores the nature, significance, scope, and practical uses of the imagination and its interplay with the use of reason in the arts, sciences and humanities, especially philosophy. In doing this, the book examines a variety of philosophical and related questions concerning the nature and role of the philosophical imagination in philosophical practice, philosophy and the performative uses of language, the comic and its relation to humor and a sense of humor, practical concerns in moral decision making and their implications for theoretical ethics, the role of the imagination in addressing a variety of current policy and decision problems, and the relation between the imagination, reason, and reality in science, art, literature, and the humanities.
Practical Environmental Ethics (Transaction Publishers, 2016)
This book proposes a new approach to environmental ethics and to environmental policy making in particular. It distinguishes between cases in which entire ecosystems are at risk, threatening the stability of entire societies where collective consequences take precedence and cases in which whole ecosystems are not at risk where individual rights, duties, or other considerations take precedence. In doing this, it discusses environmental controversies, not only philosophically, but in the complex contexts at work within policy and decision-making communities. This allows for consideration of crucial concepts used in morality, biology, technology, business, economics, politics, and philosophy, especially in practical and theoretical ethics. Relying on numerous actual environmental cases, the book helps formulate realistic ways of logically and ethically determining how environmental controversies should be addressed. Ultimately, it proposes hypothetical solutions that policy makers and anyone interested in this topic may utilize to clarify environmental problems and issues and determine how to best deal with them for the greater good.
Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making (Transaction Publishers, 2014)
This book conceives of globalization processes as neither uniform nor merely economic and political, but also technological, scientific, and cultural and, along lines analogous—but not identical—to those of diffusion theory, formulates a catalytic diffusion conception of globalization. In addition, the book provides a taxonomy of globalization processes, investigates the social and personal consequences of a number of them, and formulates a comprehensive approach for dealing with them.
La tecnología y la sociedad global (Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2008)
Designed for Spanish speaking readers interested in technology and policy and decision making in a globalizing world, La tecnología y la sociedad global reviews contemporary tecnological developments at the local, regional, national, and global levels and the types of ethical questions they pose, and then moves on to address the problems they pose regarding specific technology areas: assessment, management, research and development, and transfer.
Los negocios y la sociedad global (Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2007)
Designed for Spanish speaking readers interested business and policy and decision making in a globalizing world, Los negocios y la sociedad global reviews contemporary business developments and practices at the local, regional, national, and global levels and the types of ethical questions they pose, and then moves on to address the problems they pose regarding specific business areas: management, marketing, business and finance, and international business.
Business and Global Society (Global Publications, 2003)
Designed for interested business and policy making practitioners and students in business ethics and other practical ethics courses, Business and Global Society reviews contemporary business developments and practices and the types of ethical questions they pose, and then moves on to address issues concerning specific business areas: management, marketing, business and finance, and international business, especially as these affect or are affected by globalization.
Technology and Global Society (Global Publications, 2002)
Designed for interested science, engineering, and technology practitioners and students in the ethics of science, engineering ethics, the ethics of technology, and other practical ethics courses, Technology and Global Society begins with an overview of contemporary technological developments and the types of ethical questions they pose, and then moves on to address issues concerning the assessment, management, development, and transfer of technology, as well as longstanding moral controversies in information, gene-splicing, health care, space, energy, and materials technology, and environmental and risk-related issues at the local, regional, national, and global levels. The book's essays include numerous brief excerpts from technology, policy studies, and philosophy sources, and provide substantial commentary, constituting a unique and thorough integration of scientific and technological language and categories with concepts and methods used in philosophy and policy studies.
Dictionary of World Philosophy (Routledge, 2001)
This new reference provides a very comprehensive resource, with entries about terms and philosophical areas of inquiry and traditions drawn from African, Arabic, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Jewish, Korean, Latin American, Maori, and Native American Philosophy. Entries include abazimu, abortion, act, Advaita, aesthetics, age of the world, anthropocentrism, artificial life, baskets of knowledge, bhakti, body, Buddhism, capitalism, chain of being, computer theory, creation, Christianity, Confucianism, culture, cybernetics, darshana, death, determinism, ecology, ethics, evolution, faith, gender, Hinduism, human nature, infinity, knowledge, logic, love, meaning, memory, Mohism, myth, Nahua philosophy, paradox, perception, perfection, philosophy and expatriation, philosophy of liberation, philosophy and literature, play, probability, psychoanalysis, spiritualism, Taoism, truth, understanding, value, virtue, war, wisdom, Zen, and much, much more.
Philosophical Ecologies: Essays in Philosophy, Ecology, and Human Life (Humanity Books, 1999)
This book deals with contemporary social fragmentation by applying an ecological model to a wide range of philosophical problems. Some issue are environmental, others intercultural, still others about matters of aesthetics and the place and role of science, ideology, and philosophy in our fragmented world. The book relies on substantial empirical information and sophisticated conceptions of policy making and social problems and issues. This socially relevant study redefines the practice of philosophy and its relation to the real-world concerns of contemporary society.
Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making (Humanities Press International/Humanity Books, 1994)
Unique in its conception of philosophy as diplomacy, this book covers wide-ranging topics and tries to establish the extent to which particular positions in moral philosophy, both recent and traditional, have practical applications to policy making. Many of the policy issue addressed are related to technological developments including fetal research, new health care technologies and genetic engineering, environmental deterioration and its relations to energy and materials technologies, and high-tech weapons in the post-cold war international world. But some essays go beyond technology to discuss policy making problems concerning such issues as objectivity in news reporting, in policy making, and in theory formation; the application of rational choice, game, and social choice theory to the actual world of politics; and moral and political issues concerning civil rights, preferential treatment, and abortion.
Through Time and Culture: Introductory Readings in Philosophy (Prentice Hall, 1994),
and its accompanying Instructor's Resource Manual for Through Time and Culture: Introductory Readings in Philosophy (Prentice Hall, 1994)
For freshman and sophomore courses in Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophical Inquiry, Problems of Philosophy, and the History of Ideas, this cross-cultural anthology, containing 54 selections and substantial commentary in sections preceeding each of the book's six parts, introduces students to philosophy as it is actually practiced, and provides a basis for open-minded philosophical reflection and dialogue.
Contemporary Moral Controversies in Business (Oxford University Press, 1989)
Designed for use in business ethics courses, this text provides a comprehensive selection of essays on various ethical controversies supplemented with excerpts from relevant court cases. In the General Introduction and substantial introductions to each of its six parts, the book places the readings in the context of moral theory, encouraging students to apply theoretical principles to specific moral controversies about a wide range of topics including product liability, sexual harassment, whistle blowing, labor negotiations, insider trading, and mergers. Non-technical, "business language, is always used, and the structure follows the standard divisions of the business curriculum—management, accounting and finance, marketing and advertising, and international business.
Contemporary Moral Controversies in Technology (Oxford University Press, 1987)
This collection of some of the best writings in the fields of engineering ethics, ethics of technology, and philosophy and public issues, provides students with first-hand materials on a variety of contemporary moral controversies in technology. Substantial discussions of moral theory serve as background for dealing with the issues. Detailed introductions to each of the book's six parts, a Note to the Reader, and a succint General Introduction guide students to think independently about current technology ethics issues. A Glossary and a Guide to Further reading help make this book accessible to philosophy and non-philosophy students.
Articles
NOTE: Please, in those cases where versions of these articles became chapters or parts of chapters in books, press the books' titles if you are interested in the books' publishers' or vendors' information
"Teaching Philosophy: Finding a Balance between the Factors that Motivate Philosophy, Student's Imagination, and their Interests," invited contribution to SATS-Northern European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming in 24.1, 2023 issue:The Educational Respponsibilities of Philosophers. Editors: Kenneth Westphal and Mark Addis
"Globalization, Current Challenges and Future Prospects," International Journal of Technoethics (Volume 6, Issue 2, July-December, 2015)-Special Issue, Invited Guest Editor on the occasion of the publication of my Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making,
"Globalization, Migrations, and Personal Identity," invited contribution to Volume VII of the annual series Culture and Civilization, entitled Travel, Discovery, Transformation (Transaction Publishers, 2015)
Update of three entries: pollution, information overload, and speed,
in J. Britt Holbrook, Editor in Chief and Carl Mitcham, Associate Editor, Ethics of Science, Technology, and Engineering: an International Encyclopedia, 2nd edition (Macmillan Reference, an Imprint of Cengage Learning: forthcoming in 2014 [1st edition: Carl Mitcham, (gen.ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (Macmillan, 2005)]
"Globalization and the Andean Oil Rush,"
invited contribution to Volume V of the annual series Culture and Civilization, entitled Cosmopolitanism and the Global Polity, published by Transaction Publishers and established and supervised by Irving Louis Horowitz, Hanna Arendt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science, Rutgers University (Transaction Publishers, 2013)
"Reclaiming the Green Continent: Ecology, Globalization, and Policy and Decision in Latin America,"
International Journal of Technoethics, (IGI Global, 2010)
"Globalization and Latin American Thought,"
in A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte, and Otávio Bueno,(Blackwell, 2010)
"World Strangers,"
The International Journal of the Humanities,Vol. 6, Nº 1 (2008)
"Papeles del gobierno, los mercados, y la cultura cívica en programas de desarrollo comunitario estadounidenses,"
published in Ciencia EmpresarialJournal of the School of Administrative and Economic Sciences of the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima, Perú (2008)
"Walking the Information Overload Tightrope,"
in Rocci Luppicini and Rebecca Adell, editors, Handbook of Research on Technoethics (IGI Global, 2008)
"Ciencia, Tecnología y Globalización,"
interviewer: Dr. Lucas Lavado, Exégesis(Posgrado de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2008)
"Inclusion and Exclusion in Hispanic Literature, Thought, and Life,"
Exégesis (Posgrado de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2008)
"Globalization and the Humanities,"
The International Journal of the Humanities,Vol. 5, Nº 1 (2007)
Three entries: pollution (sole author), information overload (with Adam Briggle), and speed (with Adam Briggle), in Carl Mitcham, (gen.ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (Macmillan, 2005)
"Cross-Cultural Ecologies: The Expatriate Experience, the Multiculturalism Issue, and Philosophy,"
in Nancy E. Snow, ed. In the Company of Others: Perspectives on Community, Family, and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1996). A version of this article can be found in chapter 3 of my Philosophical Ecologies: Essays in Philosophy, Ecology, and Human Life (Humanity Books, 1999)
Four entries, on the Latin American philosophers Carlos Astrada, Vicente Fatone, Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias, and Alberto Rougés, in Stuart Brown, Diané Collinson, and Robert Wilkinson (eds.) Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers (Routledge, 1996)
"Social Choice Theory: Formalism Infatuation and Policy Making Realities,"
Epistemologia. Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1992). A version of this article can be found in chapter 3 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making (Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994)
"Social Traps: High-Tech Weapons, Rarefied Theories, and the World of Politics,"
Epistemologia. Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1991). A version of this article can be found in chapter 2 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making (Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994)
"Critical Interaction: Judgment, Decision, and the Social Testing of Moral Hypotheses,"
International Journal of Moral and Social Studies (Summer 1991). A version of this article can be found in chapter 5 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making (Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994)
"Informing the Public: Ethics, Policy Making, and Objectivity in News Reporting,"
Philosophy in Context, Volume 20 (1990). A version of this article can be found in chapter 4 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making(Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994)
"Nerve Gas, the Common Interest, and Freedom of Inquiry,"
in Agriculture, Change and Human Values, Richard Haynes and Ray Lanier, eds., (University of Florida Humanities and Agriculture Program, 1983)
Reviews
"Review of The Philosophy of William James: An Introduction, by Richard M. Gale",
The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. LIX, No 1, Issue No 233 (September, 2005)
"Review of The Tanner Lectures On Human Values, Vol VIII,"
History of European Ideas, Vol. 10, No 4 (1989)
"Review of Murphy and Pardeck's Technology and Human Productivity,"
Ethics (April 1988)
Journalistic Publications
"Interview with A. Pablo Iannone"
(interviewer: Dr. Rocci Luppicini, Department of Communications, University of Ottawa), in Rocci Luppicini, Technoethics and the Evolving Knowledge Society (Information Science Publishing, 2010)
Biographical entry in Sams, Amanda, D. Contemporary Authors
New Revision Series Volume 165 A Biographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields (Detrit, MI: Gale, 2008)
"Ciencia, tecnología y globalización"
(interviewer: Dr. Lucas Lavado), in Lucas Lavado, Roles de la filosofía (Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2008)
"Papeles del gobierno, los mercados, y la cultura cívica en programas de desarrollo comunitario estadounidenses,"
Ciencia Empresarial Journal of the School of Administrative and Economic Sciences of the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima, Perú (2008)
"Chemical Warfare Helped by Campus Research,"
in Watershed, II, No 2 (April 1983), p. 6
LITERARY PUBLICATIONS
Books
Open-Ended (Branden Books, 2016)
The Room with Closets: Tales of a Life Divided (Vagabond Press, 2006)
Astérida (Ediciones de Gog y Magog, 1973)
Stories
"South,"
in Paradise Lost or Gained? The Literature of Hispanic Exile (Arte Público, 1991) / The Americas Review, Vol 18, No 3-4, guest-edited by Stanford University's Fernando Alegría and Jorge Ruffinelli
"El Vuelo de Batata,"
in Textos de la Víspera (August 2, 2001)
"El casamiento de Margarita"
in Textos de la Víspera (November 15, 2001)
"El Cuarto de los Placares," in Textos de la Víspera (June 20, 2002)
in Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities (August 2006)
TALKS
"The Appreciation of Cultural Expressions in the Digital World," presented at the Central Connecticut State University's Philosophy and Society Circle symposium entitled "The Arts, Sciences, and Humanities in the Digital World,' Thursday. October 6 and Friday October 7, 2016
Central Authors Presentation and Video-Taping of my Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy-Making (Transaction, 2014), Wednesday, November 18, 2015.
"Imagination, Reason, and Action in Cooperative Inquiry between the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Professions" presented at the Central Connecticut State University's Philosophy and Society Circle workshop entitled "The Dynamics of Cooperative Inquiry: Innovation through Cross-Pollination in and between the Humanities, Arts, Professions, Sciences, and Technologies," October 3, 2013
"Conflicting Conceptions of International Development in the Americas: Challenges and Prospects for a Resolution," presented at the Central Connecticut State University's Philosophy and Society Circle workshop entitled "Exploring Development: Kinds, Conceptions, Challenges, and Prospects for Improvement," September 25, 2012
"Amazonian Development: Challenges and Prospects," presented to Professor John J. Davenport's Environmental Ethics class, at Forgham University-Lincoln Center, on March 12, 2010.
"Inclusion and Exclusion in Hispanic Literature, Thought, and Life," presented at theSpecial Session on Philosophy and Literature of the American Philosophical Association's Eastern Division Meetings in Baltimore on December 30, 2007.
Presentation of Los negocios y la sociedad global at the XII International Book Fair held in Lima, Perú, on July 20, 2007.
"Negocios, tecnología global y sociedad," a series of five conferences presented to about 150 students, faculty members, business and technology practitioners, and interested members of the general public, organized by the School of Graduate Studies, Editorial Fund and School of Administrative Sciences and Economics at the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima, Perú, July 16-20, 2007
"Globalization and the Humanities," presented on February 25, 2007, at the Symposium on New Directions in the Humanities held at Columbia University between February 24 and February 26 2007.
"The Free Trade Area of the Americas: 2002," presented to Professor Scott Benjamin's World Governments, Economies, and Cultures class, at Western Connecticut State University, on March 20, 2002
"Argentina 2002: Challenges and Prospects," presented at the meeting of theConnecticut Chapter of the National Association of Credit Managers, March 13, 2002
"The Free Trade Area of the Americas: 2001," presented to Professor Scott Benjamin's World Governments, Economies, and Cultures class, at Western Connecticut State University, on November 1st, 2001
"In Pursuit of Equity: Ethics, Distressed Communities, and the Community Reinvestment Act," with Mary Kay Garrow, Executive Vice-President, Connecticut Housing Investment Fund, presented at the Central Connecticut State University Philosophy Colloquium on May 5, 1999 and previously at the National Conference on Ethical Issues in Finance, University of Florida, on January 27, 1995. A version of this article can be found in chapter 5 of my Philosophical Ecologies: Essays in Philosophy, Ecology, and Human Life (Humanity Books, 1999)
"Dealing with Diversity: Cultural Fragmentation, Intercultural Conflicts, and Philosophy," presented at the Central Connecticut State University Colloquium on October 9, 1996 and, previously, as the keynote presentation of the 1994 Annual Conference of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Estes Park, Colorado, August 15, 1994. The discussion in this article was expanded into chapters 1 and 2 of my Philosophical Ecologies: Essays in Philosophy, Ecology, and Human Life(Humanity Books, 1999)
Presentation of Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical & Professional Ethics, held in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1995
"Conscience at Work," presented at the Symposium on Engineering Ethics, held at the University of New Haven, November 16, 1994. A version of this article can be found in chapter 6 of my Philosophical Ecologies : Essays in Philosophy, Ecology, and Human Life (Humanity Books, 1999)
"Bridging Gaps in Babel: Ethics, Technology, and Policy-Making," presented at the Argentine Consulate in New York City, under the auspices of the Argentine Consulate and the Division of Social Sciences of the Argentine-North American Association for the Advancement of Science, Technology, and Culture, October 7, 1993. A version of this article can be found in chapter 11 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making (Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994)
"Social Choice Theory: Formalism Infatuation and Policy Making Realities,"paper presented at the Central Connecticut State University Philosophy Colloquium, April 22, 1992. A version of this article can be found in chapter 3 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making (Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994)
"Issues, Issue-Overload, and Moral Philosophy as Diplomacy," paper presented at the Central Connecticut State University Philosophy Colloquium, April 18, 1990. A version of this article can be found in chapter 1 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making (Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994)
"From Travel-Language to Language-Travel," paper read at the Modern Languages Awards Ceremony, Central Connecticut State University, April 19, 1989. This talk, expanded and modifed, became part of chapter 3 in my Philosophical Ecologies: Essays in Philosophy, Ecology, and Human Life (Humanity Books, 1999)
"Business Ethics," Radio Program with Professor Patricia Sanders, Associate Dean, Central Connecticut State University School of Business, and Mr. Peter Durham, then Director, Central Connecticut State University Public Affairs Office. Aired on WRCH(April 17, 1988) and WRCQ (April 24, 1988)
"Technology Ethics: The State of the Art," paper read at Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy Summer Series, July 10, 1987. An initial version of this paper was read at Central Connecticut State University Every Monday Series, on November 3, 1986
"Computers, Education, and Self-Esteem: Do They Mix?," paper read at the Central Connecticut State University Faculty Symposium entitled Visions of Computers in University Life: Effects and Assessments, March 1, 1985. An expanded version of this article can be found in chapter 9 of my Philosophy as Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy Making
Coordinator and moderator of Ethical Issues in Plant-Relocation, multioccupational symposium held at Central Connecticut State University, Spring 1984
"Nerve Gas, the Common Interest, and Freedom of Inquiry: Dealing with the Confrontation on Organophosphates Research," paper read at Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy, Spring 1982, and at the National Multidisciplinary Conference on Agriculture, Change and Human Values, University of Florida, Humanities and Agriculture Program, Fall 1982
Discussant in University Military Research and Public Policy, philosophical forum held at the University of Florida, Fall 1982
Moderator in Animal Rights, philosophical forum held at the University of Florida, Fall 1982
"Energy and Justice," seventh panel discussion of the Wisconsin Energy Report, 21WHA-TV, Madison, Wisconsin, Spring 1980
"Policy and Controversy," paper read at St. Mary's College of Maryland, Department of Philosophy, Fall 1979.
"Anglo-American Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century," paper read at theUniversity of Texas at Dallas, Spring 1976
LITERARY PRESENTATIONS
Central Connecticut State University's Department of Modern Languages andand Elihu Burritt Library Book Presentation of my Open-Ended (Branden Books, 2016), Wednesday, October 26, 2016.
Central Author's Book Presentation and Video-Taping of my The Room with Closets: Tales of a Life Divided, Central Connecticut State University, October 27, 2006
"Philosophy Through Literature," a reading of short stories from my Expatriate Memories/Memorias Expatriadas (unpublished), followed by a literary-philosophical discussion, presented to the Central Connecticut State University Philosophy Club, April 29, 1987
"From Horas Definitivas," a reading of poems from my second poetry book (unpublished) presented to the University of Texas at Dallas College VII, Spring 1976