Report on the 2015 Fleishhacker Chair Lecture and Latin American Philosophy Conference (original) (raw)
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AUTHOR'S PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL SUMMARY)
This a summary of the philosophy developed and projected in the different entries of the author in Academia.edu. The reader can find a Spanish summary up to 2017 in Antonio Heredia Soriano, Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española. VIII- 1. Addenda. A-F , Granada: Comares, 2017.