Francisco Romero (philosopher)

Francisco Romero (Sevilla, 1891 – Buenos Aires, 1962) was a Latin American philosopher, considered a leader in the philosopher movement in the Latin American countries, especially in Argentina.

He was an influential critic and a translator from the German works of others. Romero defends a structural conception of reality against David Hume, rationalism, biological evolutionism and all atomistic conceptions. True being is identified by Romero with transcendence, with personality as its function.

He Believed that all non-human animals lacked intentional consciousness. e.g. Self-Awareness & Critical Reasoning

Selected works

• Old and New Concepts of Reality (1932)
• The Problems of Philosophy of Culture (1938)
• Program of a Philosophy (1940)