JAMES MAFFIE
Contact Information:
Phone: 970.491.2743
Fax: 970.491.4900
Email: james.maffie@colostate.edu
Address:
Office: 224 Eddy Hall,
Colorado State
University,
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1781
Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988
Research:
Maffie's areas of specialization are Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Philosophy, Epistemology, Comparative World Philosophy, and Philosophy of the Sciences. He has published in Philosophical Studies, Social Epistemology, Biology and Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, History of the Human Sciences, and The Nahua Newsletter, among others. He is currently working on a book devoted to Pre-Columbian Nahua (Aztec) philosophy.Selected Papers:
Maffie, J. (forthcoming, 2008). "’Whatever happens, We have the Gatling Gun, And they have not:’ Future Prospects for Indigenous Knowledges,” Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning, and Futures Studies (forthcoming 2008) Special issue: The Futures of Indigenous Knowledges.
--------.(2007). “The Centrality of Nepantla in Conquest-era Nahua Philosophy,” The Nahua Newsletter vol. 44 (November):11-31.
--------. (2005). "The Consequences of Ideas," Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy 19 (1), pp. 63-76
--------.(2003). "To Walk in Balance: An Encounter between Contemporary Western Science and Pre- Conquest Nahua Philosophy," in Science and Other Cultures: Issues in
Philosophies of Science and Technology, Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding (eds.). New York: Routledge, pp. 70-91.
--------.(2002). "'We Eat of the Earth, then the Earth Eats Us': The Concept of Nature in Pre-Hispanic Nahua Thought," Ludis Vitalis X (17), pp. 5-20
--------.(2002). "Why Care about Nezahualcoyotl? Veritism and Nahua Philosophy,"; Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32 (1), pp. 73-93
--------. "Ethnoepistemology," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/ethno-ep.htm
--------. “Aztec Philosophy," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/aztec.htm
