The Department of Philosophy is excited to welcome its newest faculty member, Dr. Jorge Sanchez Perez

Dr. Jorge Sanchez Perez will be joining the department in Fall 2022 as Assistant Professor in Philosophy in Epistemology and Indigenous Philosophy.

Originally from Peru, Dr. Sanchez Perez earned a LLB at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and a MA in philosophy at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; both in Lima, Peru. He then obtained a Master of Science in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a PhD from McMaster University in Canada. Before coming to the U of A, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project.

Dr. Sanchez Perez’s areas of research are Social Epistemology, Legal and Political Philosophy, Indigenous Philosophy, and Latin American Philosophy. Here is how he describes his research:

"My primary focus is to address methodological and theoretical concerns that arise when Indigenous philosophical views are considered a meaningful subject of inquiry within academic philosophy. My current research aims to reconstruct Indigenous Andean philosophical views from the late 16th-century Huarochrí Manuscript. This effort leads me to engage with different questions, including the possible tension between the conceptualization of Indigenous philosophy from the Americas and Latin American philosophy. I am also interested in issues of race beyond the dominant debates focused on categories grounded on the US experience of race. My final research interests are the contemporary debate about legal pluralism and the nature of law. My next project will be the development of a global theory of justice that properly engages with Indigenous philosophical views from around the globe".

This fall, Dr. Sanchez Perez will be teaching our core Epistemology course (PHIL 215) as well as PHIL 368: Topics in Social Justice. This course will focus on Indigenous Perspectives on Global Justice. You can learn more about PHIL 215 here, and about PHIL 368 here. In Winter term, he will be teaching a 400/500-level seminar on the Epistemology of Groups (learn more about it here).

Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Dr. Sanchez Perez!