Background
Castañeda, Hector-Neri was born on December 13, 1924 in Zacapa, Guatemala. Came to United States, 1956, naturalized, 1963. Son of Ezequiel V. and Sara (Calderon) Castañeda.
(Philosophy is the search for the large patterns of the wo...)
Philosophy is the search for the large patterns of the world and of the large patterns of experience, perceptual, theoretical, . . . , aesthetic, and practical - the patterns that, regardless of specific contents, characterize the main types of experience. In this book I carry out my search for the large patterns of practical experience: the experience of deliberation, of recognition of duties and their conflicts, of attempts to guide other person's conduct, of deciding to act, of influencing the physical world with one's doings, and the like. This is the experience that makes possible our social life, the formulation of plans for teamwork, the building of institutions, the development of nations, and the adoption of the ideal of morality. Here I develop a network of theories about the most fundamental aspects of practical thinking: what is thought in such thinking; what makes that thinking correct; what makes it practical; and the structure of the doings that accrue to the world when such thinking is effective. I have attempted to build each theory in sufficient detail, so that it il luminates its subject matter with a certain degree of fullness. But I have also aimed at producing an harmonious system of theories, so that the grand pattern of practical thinking can be admired, not only for the beauty of the separate structures of its parts, but also for its architectonic unity. Chapter 1 gives the details of the many facets of this project and discusses some methodological techniques.
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Castañeda, Hector-Neri was born on December 13, 1924 in Zacapa, Guatemala. Came to United States, 1956, naturalized, 1963. Son of Ezequiel V. and Sara (Calderon) Castañeda.
Bachelor, University Minnesota, 1950. Master of Arts, University Minnesota, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, 1954.
British Council fellow, Wadham College, Oxford, 1956. Doctor of Humanities, Governors State University, 1974. Doctor of Humanities, University Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala, 1984.
Instructor University Minnesota, 1953-1954. Visiting assistant professor Duke University, 1956-1957. Assistant professor Wayne State University, 1957-1961, associate professor, 1961-1964, professor, 1964-1969, acting chairman philosophy department, 1965-1966, summer 1968, visiting professor philosophy, 1970.
Professor Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1969, Mahlon Powell professor philosophy, from 1974, 1st dean Latino affairs, 1978-1981. Professor University San Carlos, Guatemala, 1954-1955. Visiting lecturer University Texas, Austin, 1962-1963, visiting professor, 1966.
Adjunct visiting professor University Cincinnati, 1970. Visiting member University Mexico Institute Philosophy, summer 1970. Adjunct visiting professor University Pittsburgh, 1972.
Director summer seminar National Endowment for Humanities, 1974, 76, 78, 84, 86, year-long seminar, 1980-1981. Visiting professor University Venice, Italy, 1985, University Heidelberg, Federal Republic Germany, 1987, University Freiburg, Federal Republic Germany, fall 1987. Tinbergen professor Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, fall 1989.
(This book is a series of investigations into the philosop...)
(Philosophy is the search for the large patterns of the wo...)
(Philosophy, Linguistics, Language Studies)
Author: Fundamentos de la didáctica del lenguaje, 1948, La Dialectica de la Conciencia de Sí Mismo, 1960, The Structure of Morality, 1974, Thinking and Doing: The Philosophical Foundations of Institutions, 1975, La Teoria de Platon sobre las Formas, las Relaciones y los Particulares en el Fedon, 1976, On Philosophical Method, 1980, Sprache und Erfahrung: Texte zu einer neuen Ontologie, 1982, Thinking, Language and Experience, 1989. Editor, contributor: (with G. Nakhnikian) Morality and the Language of Conduct, 1963, Intentionality, Minds and Perception, 1967, Action, Knowledge and Reality, 1974, (with James E. Tomberlin) Agent, Language and Structure of the World: Essays presented to Hector-Neri Castaneda, with His Replies, 1983, (with James E. Tomberlin) Hector-Neri Castaneda (Profiles of Philosophers Northern 6), 1986, (with Klaus Jacobi and Helmut Pape) Das Denken und die Struktur der Welt: Castanedas epistenische Ontologie, Darstellung und Kritik, 1990. Founding editor: Nous, from 1966.Member editorial board: Critica, from 1966, Manuscrito, from 1977, Brain and Cognition, 1980-1985, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, from 1984, Theoria II, from 1985, Philosophical Perspectives, from 1986, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, from 1989, Symposium on His Views at the University Cincinnati, 1978 and the University Freiburg, 1986. Contributor numerous articles to professional journals.
Castañeda’s work extends to such areas as metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, moral philosophy, practical reason, action theory and theory of knowledge. His more than 150 essays and articles have sparked considerable theoretical debate on deontic logic, hierarchy of ethical principles and intentionality.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Aristotelian Society, American Philosophical Association (vice president Western division 1978-1979, president 1979-1980), International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, American Metaphysical Society, Hegel Vereinigung, Society for Exact Philosophy (president 1971-1974), InstitutoGuatemalteco de Investigaciones Filosoficas (honorary), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Married Miriam Mendez, December 24, 1946 (divorced February 1983). Children: Xmucane (Mistress Gerald Wiebeck), Kicab, Hector Neri, Omar Sigfrido, Quetzil Eugenio. Married Rhina Toruno, April 24, 1987.