The Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy was instituted in 1998 to support research initiatives in philosophy and interdisciplinary activities in the humanities and the arts that take place at the University at Buffalo. Since its creation, it has sponsored 6 conferences and has co-sponsored numerous other events, including an NEH Summer Institute (2005) and an NEH Summer Seminar (2006). It also maintains a web page on Cuban art outside Cuba.

Jorge J. E. Gracia's Home Page

Samuel P. Capen Chair Projects:

Identity, Ethnicity, and Group Rights (1998)

Literary Philosophers? Borges, Calvino, Eco (1999)

Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early Medievals (2000)

The Future of Realism on American Philosophy (2000)

Categories (2001)

Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Interpretation in Philosophy (2002)

Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture (2004)

Black Ethnicity, Latino Race? (2005)

Latin American Philosophy (2005)

Negotiating Identities in Philosophy, Art, and Literature (2006)

Cuban Art (2006 and ongoing)

Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Latin American Thought (2007)

Black and Latino Perspectives on Race (2008)