Latin American/Latinx Philosophy

*Updated in 2025

Latin American/Latinx Philosophy

This is a growing area of philosophical scholarship and teaching, with national conferences held nearly every year, regular panels at the APA, a new journal, and numerous books and articles in print.

Below are compiled annotated lists of philosophy departments in which graduate and undergraduate students might pursue an interest in this area. These lists have been developed by our Advisory Board (the members can be found under the tab “Advisory Boards”). We have left these lists unranked because there is often only one main faculty member representing the field for each department. Therefore, students should consider their own interests in relation to the specific areas of expertise of these particular faculty members.

These lists were created in 2019/2020 and have been updated with recent faculty moves in 2025

Graduate Programs:

The programs listed below provide support for graduate level work in this area. We used the following five criteria to create this list, but we strongly urge students to research these departments on their own, using these points as an initial guide.

1. There should be the possibility to work with at least one solid expert in the field, who is preferably a full, voting member of the philosophy department.

2. There should be a general pluralistic climate in the philosophy department as a whole that conveys support for this sub-field and for Latino/a faculty and students. For this reason it would be useful to cross reference the lists below with the Philosophy of Race and Africana Philosophy Lists from this Guide.

3. The department should welcome Spanish and other relevant languages (e.g., Portuguese, Indigenous languages) as philosophically important languages to master.

4. There should be faculty in other departments (i.e., outside of philosophy but at the same institution) who can also be consulted in matters concerning Latin American or Latinx thought.

5. There should be faculty in philosophy departments nearby (e.g., within the city, region, or state) who can also be consulted, serve on a committee as an outside reader, and so forth.

Recommended programs for graduate level work: The following programs meet these five criteria, albeit at differing degrees. We have also included the name of the principal faculty members who have expertise in this field.