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