The Italian Pragmatists

Between Allies and Enemies
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44086-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 352, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Pragmatism and Values

The Italian Pragmatists were a group of philosophers in the early 20th century, most notably including Giovanni Vailati, Mario Calderoni, Giovanni Papini and Giuseppe Prezzolini. They gathered around the journal Leonardo, published in Florence. The Italian philosophers were in contact with the American Pragmatists, especially with C.S.V. Peirce and W. James, and developed many original and provocative ideas that made the Italian Pragmatists allies and enemies.

Critics have often stressed the differences between their versions of Pragmatism. This volume emphasizes what they shared, and their value for philosophy and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maddalena, Giovanni

Tuzet, Giovanni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Sign of the Four

Giovanni Maddalena and Giovanni Tuzet

1Pragmatism in Florence: the Magicians and the Logicians

Cornelis De Waal

2Giovanni Vailati and the Art of Reasoning

Giovanni Maddalena

3Algebraic Grammar, Geometric Grammar: Vailati and Peirce

Susanna Marietti

4Do Normative Predictions Make Sense?: pragmatism and Ethics in Calderoni

Giovanni Tuzet

5Two Faces of Italian Pragmatism: the Prezzolini-Calderoni Debate, 1904–1905

E. Paul Colella

6“Tell Your Friend Giuliano…”: Jamesian Enthusiasms and Peircean Reservations

Vincent Colapietro

7Giuseppe Prezzolini’s Pragmatic Interlude: a Reply to Colapietro

E. Paul Colella

8Pain, Beliefs, Action: Papini and the Debate between Psychology and Philosophy in Italy at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Maria Teresa Russo

9Toward a “Critique of Hypothetical Reason”: Erminio Juvalta and the Italian Pragmatists

Anna Maria Nieddu

10Making Truth and Reality: magic Pragmatism as a Guide for Action

Francesca Bordogna

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanni Maddalena, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Molise, Italy, and Fulbright Research Scholar (2010), as well as Professeur Invité de l’École Normale Supérieure (2015). He is one of the founders of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy.

Giovanni Tuzet, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Philosophy of Law at Bocconi University, Italy. He has published several monographs and many articles on legal and philosophical Pragmatism.