Carlos Pereda Failache (Florida, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan/Mexicanphilosopher, and emeritus researcher at UNAM's Institute for Philosophical Research. Pereda is the author of more than 50 articles, 10 books, and winner of the Siglo XXI Essay Prize, 2008, for his book Learnings from the Exile [Los aprendizajes del exilio].[1] He has been president of the Mexican Philosophical Association/
In 1998 he won the National University Prize in Humanities Research awarded by UNAM and in 2008 the Siglo XXI Essay Prize for his book Learnings from the Exile [Los aprendizajes del exilio]. He has been part of the jury for the Octavio Paz Poetry and Essay Award (1999) and the National University Award (1999-2002, 2006-2007). He was president of the Mexican Philosophical Association (1998-2000) and of the Inter-American Society of Philosophy (1998-2004). In November 2011, the Institute of Philosophical Research held an event in honor of his work and career: Normativity and Argumentation. Dialogues with Carlos Pereda. He is currently a member of the Institut International de Philosophie.
Thought
Pereda's work deals primarily with philosophy's most fundamental tool: argumentation. In discussing the nature and usefulness of said tool, Pereda's work covers a very broad spectrum of disciplines that includes epistemology, political science, ethics and literature. His book Argumentative Vertigos: An Ethics of Dispute [Vértigos argumentales: una ética de la disputa] (1994) offers an original contribution to the theory of argumentation.
Reason and Uncertainty [Razón e incertidumbre]. Siglo XXI Editores [es], Mexico, 1994.
Argumentative Vertigos: An Ethics of Dispute [Vértigos argumentales. Una ética de la disputa]. Anthropos, Spain, 1994.
Homeless dreams: An Essay on Philosophy, Moral and Literature[Sueños de vagabundos. Un ensayo sobre filosofía, moral y literatura]. Visor, Spain. 1998.
Critique of Arrogant Reason [Crítica de la razón arrogante]. Taurus-Alfaguara, Mexico, 1999.
Learnings from the Exile [Los aprendizajes del exilio]. Siglo XXI Editores, México, 2008.
On Trust [Sobre la confianza]. Herder [es], Bacerlona, 2009.
Philosophy and the Strangeness Perspective[La filosofía y la perspectiva de la extrañeza]. UNAM, Mexico, 2013.
Philosophy in Mexico in the Twentieth Century. Notes from a Participant.[La filosofía en México en el siglo XX. Apuntes de un participante]. Conaculta, Mexico, 2013.
Carlos Pereda & Edgar González-Ruiz. Research Techniques I. Numancia, Mexico 1986.
Carlos Pereda & Enrique Serrano. Introduction to Philosophy. SEIT, SEP, Mexico, 1986.
Edited books
Mauricio Beuchot & Carlos Pereda. Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and History. IIF, UNAM, Mexico, 2001.
Julio Beltrán & Carlos Pereda. Certainty, a Myth? Naturalism, Fallibilism, Skepticism. IIF, UNAM, 2002.
Maria Herrera-Lima, Cesar Gonzales-Ochoa & Carlos Pereda. Memory and Melancholy: reflections from literature, philosophy and art theory. UNAM, Mexico, 2007.