Southwestern Philosophical Society: 88th Annual Meeting Call for Papers
The Southwestern Philosophical Society is an association of scholars founded in 1936 that provides a forum for philosophical research. While SWPS originally served philosophers in the American Southwest, it is today an international society.
Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome. There are multiple benefits to submitting to the Southwestern Philosophical Society:
All papers undergo anonymous peer review from two scholars. All accepted papers receive a commentary.
Presented papers will be published in volume 43, issue 1 of Southwest Philosophy Review.
Presented papers will receive a written commentary, published in volume 43, issue 2 of Southwest Philosophy Review.
While Southwest Philosophy Review owns the copyrights to the journal-formatted article, the author retains copyright over the words. Thus, the author is permitted to expand the conference-length article and publish it in another venue.
The 2026 meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society will be held at:
El Paso Community College - Valle Verde Campus in El Paso, Texas from Friday, November 13 to Saturday, November 14, 2026.
All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be published in volume 43, issue 1 of Southwest Philosophy Review.
Submission guidelines and more info:
https://www.southwesternphilosophical.org/
Jim Maffie
Jim Maffie is a retired senior lecturer in the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion (University Press of Colorado, 2014) as well as articles on Mexica/Nahua meta-philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology, as well as on the hermeneutical challenges facing early post-Conquest colonial scholarship.
Zoom link: www.whitman.zoom.us/j/98055050775
Jorge Montiel
SOCIETY FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
Speaker Series
presents
Jorge Montiel
“Mexican Philosophy in Cross-Border Dialogue”
In the last decade, there has been a booming in Mexican philosophy on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border thanks to efforts by SMAP and the Congreso Internacional de Filosofía Mexicana to open spaces for cross-border dialogue. This lecture proposes that three main themes characterize these dialogues: 1) an effort to bring the philosophical tradition to bear on the problems posed by the present circumstance; 2) a critical attitude both towards abstract universalism and cultural particularism; and 3) a hermeneutical orientation where the philosophical tradition serves as condition of possibility for doing philosophy today. Yet, my characterization does not pretend to be normative of what counts as Mexican philosophy or how it should be done, and my description does not pretend to be exhaustive of the vast field of Mexican philosophy. Rather, it should be taken as a personal reading of the dialogical processes on Mexican philosophy that I observe on both sides of the border.
About the Speaker
Jorge Montiel is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Wabash College. He specializes in Latinx and Latin American philosophy, decolonial Marxisms, and critical phenomenology. Montiel's publications appear in journals such as Genealogy, Radical Philosophy Review, and the Journal of Mexican Philosophy. He is currently working on a book manuscript on Leopoldo Zea’s radical humanism.
Date & Time
July 23, 2026
3:00 PM EST (Noon PST)
Zoom Link
https://whitman.zoom.us/j/98055050775
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