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
Preferred: carlos.sanchez@sjsu.edu
Telephone
Preferred: (408) 924-7581
Office Hours
Email for appointment.
||Books, Monographs, and Anthologies||
- Bloomsbury Press, 2023.
- . Bloomsbury Press, 2021.
- . Amherst College Press, 2020.
- , co-written with Francisco Gallegos. State University of New York Press, 2020.
- , co-edited with Robert E. Sanchez. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- . State University of New York Press, 2016.
- . State University of New York Press, 2012.
- . LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
- , 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.