Sanchez, Carlos Alberto

Sanchez, Carlos Alberto

  • Full Professor of Philosophy
  • President's Scholar, 2018
  • Advisor for the Graduate Program in Philosophy 
  • Chair, Committee on Inter-American Philosophy for the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

Email

Preferred: carlos.sanchez@sjsu.edu

Telephone

Preferred: (408) 924-7581

Office Hours

Email for appointment.

                           

               ||Books, Monographs, and Anthologies||

 

  1. Bloomsbury Press, 2023. 
  2. . Bloomsbury Press, 2021.
  3. . Amherst College Press, 2020.
  4. , co-written with Francisco Gallegos. State University of New York Press, 2020.
  5. , co-edited with Robert E. Sanchez. Oxford University Press, 2017. 
  6. . State University of New York Press, 2016. 
  7. . State University of New York Press, 2012. 
  8. . LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010. 
  9. , co-edited with Jules Simon. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Nominated for the 2012 Americo Peredes Book Award. 

 

           ||Interviews: Radio/Podcasts/YouTube||
  • Lecture on "" for University of London SOAS.
  • Webinar on "l" for Kaleidos. 
  • What the Fuckery? Podcast. "."
  • ABC News, Sydney. Interview. ""
  • CBC News, Canada. The Sunday Magazine, . 
  • Blog of the American Philosophical Association, . 
     
                 ||Public Philosophy/OpEds/Other||
  •  The Philosopher, Spring 2023. 
  • , University of Washington, February 19, 2021
  • "," Latino Rebels, OpEd, Jan. 27, 2021. 
  • "," San Jose Mercury News, OpEd, Jan. 19, 2021. 
  • "," San Francisco Chronicle, OpEd. Oct. 27, 2020.
  • "" The Conversation, Nov. 2, 2020; in The Denver Post and translated into Spanish and reprinted by     
  • Recognized for scholarly achievement: .  
  • Why I study Mexican Philosophy in the 
  • On "The Philosophy of Mexicanness" in .
  • On "" in .
  • On "On Narco-Culture" in .
  • University Scholar Lecture on Narco-Culture . 
  • My with Robert Sanchez. 
  • Link to in Nortre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

 

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Philosophy, University of New Mexico, 2006
  • Bachelor of Science, Advertising, San Jose State University, 1998

 

Licenses and Certificates

 

 

Bio

I am the eldest son of (undocumented) im/migrant farm workers, a first-generation college student, lover of all things spicy, and now full professor of philosophy at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø. I was thrown into this life in Anaheim, California in 1975, but spent my childhood on a blind horse collecting firewood with my 80 year old grandfather in Acuitzeramo, Michoacan, Mexico. My parents and I returned (insert: traumatic immigration story here) to the US in the mid-1980s and I went to junior high and high school in King City, California, graduating in 1994 with a 2.5 GPA and a Juvenile Hall record. I received a Bachelors of Science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications (Advertising!) at San Jose State University in 1998, a Masters in Philosophy from the same place, and a PhD in Philosophy from The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, in 2006. I've been professing and mildly corrupting youths at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø since my glorious return in that same year. 

My research and publications chronicle my adventures in the history of 20th century Mexican philosophy. Currently, I'm working on a book that applies lessons learned in those adventures to contemporary concerns. I call it, Zozobra, Relajo, and Other Frameworks for Understanding Our World: Essays in Mexican Philosophy

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