Gracia was educated in Cuba, the United States, Canada, and Spain, and received his Ph.D. in Medieval Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
These views of race and ethnicity have helped to shape the field and addressed many issues that previous theories had left unanswered.
Gracia had a number of Ph.D students, such as Peter Redpath, William Irwin, Robert Delfino, Jonathan Sanford, Daniel Novotný, etc.
[4] In his book Painting Borges, he narrates how he changed his field of study from architecture to mathematics to English literature to philosophy because he became "enthralled by language" and "craved ... to know [its] secret.
Gracia has explored the work of Francisco Suárez, focusing on his metaphysics as well as the issues of individuation and good and evil.
The anthology on Latin American philosophy he edited in the mid-1980s was the first work of its nature published in English by a philosopher.
He presented a historical account of discussions concerning the controversy about the nature of Latin-American philosophy and developed a historiographical model for the understanding of Hispanic thought.
Gracia has written on the logical and epistemological dimensions of a theory of textuality which takes into account the relevant views of both analytic and Continental thinkers and also of some major historical figures.
He has used his conclusions in this area to solve the various epistemological issues which have been raised about texts by philosophers of language, semioticians, hermeneuticists, literary critics, semanticists, aestheticians, and historiographers.
These views of race and ethnicity have helped to shape the field and addressed many issues that previous theories had left unanswered.
Within this work Gracia takes into account recent research in various disciplines: anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and Latino studies.
Gracia has also published a systematic discussion of the nature and possibility of the philosophical interpretation of art with respect to Carlos Estévez work.