:: Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor
:: E-mail:  jgracia@rocketmail.com
:: Website:  http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~gracia/

Jorge J. E. Gracia holds a Samuel P. Capen Chair and is State University of New York Distinguished Professor. He was educated in Cuba, the United States, Canada, and Spain. His PhD is from Toronto and he holds American and Canadian citizenships. Gracia is the author of sixteen books: Images of Thought: Philosophical Interpretation and Carlos Estevez's Art (in press), Latinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity (2008), Surviving Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century (2005), Old Wine in New Skins: The Role of Tradition in Communication, Knowledge, and Group Identity (2003), ¿Qué son las categorías? (2002), How Can We Know What God Means? The Interpretation of Revelation (2001), Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective (2000), Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge (1999), Filosofía hispánica (1998), Texts: Ontological Status, Identity, Author, Audience (1996), A Theory of Textuality: The Logic and Epistemology (1995), Philosophy and Its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography (1992), Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics (1988), Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages (1984, 1986), The Metaphysics of Good and Evil According to Suarez (1989), and Suarez on Individuation (1982)–and over 200 articles published in the US, Europe, Latin America, and China. Gracia has edited more than two dozen volumes in subjects such as metaphysics, hermeneutics, medieval and Hispanic philosophy, ethnic and racial issues, and philosophy of religion. He chaired the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo from 1980-1986. He sits on the boards of more than a dozen philosophy journals and edits an interdisciplinary series on Iberian and Latin American culture and thought. He has received several fellowships, including an NEH Research Fellowship, and has directed an NEH Summer Institute and an NEH Summer Seminar. He is currently working on such topics as categories, the visual dimensions of ethnicity in art, the interpretation of literature, and Cuban art. More detailed information is available at: http://acsu.buffalo.edu/~gracia/  and http://philosophy.buffalo.edu/capenchair/index.htm