Caribbean Philosophical Association

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The Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) is a

Charles Mills, and Supriya Nair. The association promotes the view that philosophy is the "rigorous theoretical reflection about fundamental problems faced by humanity", and that Caribbean philosophy in particular should be seen as "a transdisciplinary form of interrogation informed by scholarly knowledges as well as by practices and artistic expressions that elucidate fundamental questions that emerge in contexts of 'discovery,' conquest, racial, gender, and sexual domination, genocide, dependency, and exploitation as well as freedom, emancipation, and decolonization."[1]

The organization sponsors an annual meeting

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Samuel R. Delany, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, Hortense Spillers, and Conceição Evaristo. The Nicolás Guillén Book Awards for philosophical literature have been awarded to Gabriel García Márquez, Gordon Rohlehr, Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Supriya Nair, Frieda Ekotto, Bénédicte Boisseron, Víctor Fowler Calzada, LaRose Parris, Arturo Dávila-Sánchez, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Nadia V. Celis-Salgado, Lisa Lowe, Felwine Sarr, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Phillip Barron.[5][6]

Cyril Lionel Robert James, and the wider field of Caribbean ideas to which James was a major contributor."[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ CPA website
  2. ^ "Caribbean Philosophical Association" Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, Philosophy Born of Struggle, 4 January 2008.
  3. ^ Campus Events Calendar| Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) 2009, Campus News, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago).
  4. ^ Enrique Dussel website Archived 2010-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Nicholas Guillen Award". www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  6. ^ "2019 Caribbean Philosophical Awards Winners". Blog of the APA.
  7. ^ The C.L.R. James Journal.

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