 The nature of philosophy in Latin America first drew the attention of philosophically-minded thinkers in the early nineteenth century, when the region began to develop into nations independent from Spain. But it acquired greater significance with the birth of contemporary academic philosophy in the following century, ultimately taking center stage in Latin American philosophy during the second half of the 20th century, where we still find it today. Often motivated by discomfort with mainstream conceptions of philosophy, inquiry into the nature of Latin American philosophy has involved a number of sub-questions about its existence, originality, authenticity, significance, and role in culture and society. The search for answers has led to reflection on what philosophy is (or should be), as a practice, and as an academic discipline. Thus many Latin American philosophers have devoted their attention to the philosophy of Latin American philosophy, and therefore, to metaphilosophy (understood as in Williamson 2007, p. ix). Somewhat paradoxically, many of those engaged in such metaphilosophical inquiry have shown skepticism about whether there is a philosophy that can rightly be called ‘Latin American.’ Others have recast an old, reductive conception of Latin American philosophy that ascribes to it a certain limited socio-political role. But as discussed in what follows, there is also a third group made up of philosophers whose views about the nature and quality of Latin American philosophy turns out to be neither skeptical nor reductionist in any of the ways to be considered here.