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Gregory F. Pappas

 

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, August 1990.
M.A., Philosophy Honors, University of Wyoming, May 1983.
B.A., Philosophy cum laude, University of Puerto Rico, 1981.

Areas of Interest

Pragmatism (Dewey, James),
Ethics
Latin American Philosophy.

 

Gregory Fernando Pappas works within the American Pragmatist and Latin American traditions in ethics and social-political philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles on the philosophy of William James and John Dewey. His most recent publication is the book with Indiana University Press titled "John Dewey's Ethics: Democracy as Experience" It is the first comprehensive interpretation of Dewey's ethics. This fall, his book Pragmatism in the Americas will be published by Fordham University Press. He has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship as well as the William James and the Latin American Thought prizes by the American Philosophical Association. He is working on the philosophical connections between American Pragmatism and Latin American Philosophy. Dr. Pappas is the editor-in-chief of The Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, the first online journal devoted to inter-American philosophy with an inter-American editorial board that includes prominent philosophers from the Americas.

 

Gregory Pappas video interview

Interview with Newspaper El Comercio, Lima, Peru
(PDF local copy)