The Journal of Mexican Philosophy is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to make Mexican philosophy widely available to an international community of students and scholars. JMxP encourages and supports the publication of original scholarship on Mexican philosophy. Each issue will include one original translation and at least one article by a Mexican colleague, whom we encourage to write in the language in which they philosophize. JMxP seeks to broaden and enrich the history of philosophy, to promote linguistic inclusiveness in the profession, and to establish a dialogue among students and scholars north and south of the US-Mexico border.

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The papers published in JMxP will undergo anonymous peer review to ensure that they are of the highest quality, rigor, and intellectual value.

Since 2014, the executive editors have committed themselves to the project of making Mexican philosophy available. In addition to the publication of JMxP, as well as their own scholarship, they also host a blog, organize a biannual, binational conference on Mexican philosophy, have published an anthology of Mexican philosophy (OUP 2017), and are currently working on a second anthology that will highlight the contributions of women, indigenous and Afro-Mexican philosophers, and political dissidents.

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Defining Mexican Philosophy

Mexican philosophy is a philosophical tradition rooted in and framed by the history, geography, culture, and experience of Mexico and its people. Its Mexican profile is reflected in its texts and propositions and lends it a difference that both reflects an unmistakable European inheritance and simultaneously sets it apart from it. The phrase “Mexican philosophy,” however, does not refer only to the philosophy produced in Mexico; it also includes philosophical contributions outside of Mexico, produced by non-Mexicans in languages other than Spanish, as they engage with its figures, history, texts, themes, and concepts. Mexican philosophy thus contributes to philosophy understood globally and expands the canon of philosophy by introducing figures previously unknown or ignored. It contributes conceptual and methodological resources that can be brought to bear on issues of contemporary human concern; and, in affirming its Mexicanness, it reaffirms the existence and value of non-traditional, non-Eurocentric, and non-Anglo-American philosophical traditions.