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5Pragmatism and the Social SciencesEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (2). 2011.The history of the influences and interactions between pragmatism and the social sciences is as rich as it has been neglected as a field of research. This volume – the first of a series of two – tries to explore both historically and theoretically some of these multiple relationships, building upon the assumption that pragmatism has been one of the philosophical traditions that have taken most seriously the study of the social. In fact, since its origins classical American pragmatism has been...
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13Pragmatism, Transcendentalism, and PerfectionismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2 (2). 2010.The relation between Pragmatism, Transcendentalism, and Perfectionism is both obvious and difficult, and this is what prompted us to edit the present issue of the Journal. The relation is obvious, because the history of American Philosophy is deeply textured by this relation, and the transition from Transcendentalism to Pragmatism has been historically attested. Difficult, because these traditions seem to deny one another. Pragmatist philosophers have often presented themselves as the founder...
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S. Cavell E La Pretesa Come Paradigma Di RazionalitàEtica E Politica 10 (1): 167-222. 2008.Since Rawl’s A theory of justice, political philosophy has been haunted by the moral and epistemic problem of justification. The growing awareness of the irreducibility of human disagreement has increased a sense of uneasiness towards the ambivalence of pluralism that, in turn, has fostered the hope that rationality, in its public use, could help us in grounding the social order on more stable basis. Although Stanley Cavell is not usually considered a significant participant in this debate, thro…Read more
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33Le perfectionnisme à l’épreuve du pragmatismeDialogue 50 (1): 1-22. 2011.ABSTRACT: In this paper, I first lay out a definition of perfectionism drawing mainly upon the works of Cora Diamond and Stanley Cavell. Secondly, I introduce the notion of “expressive rationality” and show how it contributes to expanding the scope of pragmatism beyond its original boundaries. I then proceed to examine pragmatism and perfectionism as competing alternative accounts of moral experience, through a discussion of Coetzee’s novel The Lives of Animals. In so doing, I intend to show tha…Read more
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25New Voices for Expressive Pragmatism: Bridging the Divide between Pragmatism and PerfectionismMetaphilosophy 45 (3): 399-421. 2014.This article explores the theme of moral rationality by examining two distinct philosophical approaches, those of perfectionism and pragmatism broadly construed. It does this by comparing Cora Diamond's reading of J. M. Coetzee's novel The Lives of Animals with an imaginary reading of the same novel tuned to a moral sensibility closer to Deweyan pragmatism. By comparing a real account with an imaginary one, the article intends to press Diamond's perfectionist understanding of problematic moral e…Read more
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113Between Pragmatism and Critical Theory: Social Philosophy Today (review)Human Studies 37 (1): 57-82. 2014.This paper aims at renovating the prospects for social philosophy through a confrontation between pragmatism and critical theory. In particular, it contends that the resources of pragmatism for advancing a project of emancipatory social philosophy have so far been neglected. After contrasting the two major traditions in social philosophy—the analytical and the critical—I proceed to outline the main traits of a pragmatist social philosophy. By inscribing pragmatism within the tradition of social …Read more
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508Pragmatism, Trascendentalism, and PerfectionismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2 (2). 2010.Introduction to the symposia on Pragmatism and Perfectionism appered on the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, vol. 2 issue 2, 2010
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786What Pragmatism means by Public ReasonEtica and Politica / Ethics & Politics 12 (1): 28-51. 2010.In this article I examine the main conceptions of public reason in contemporary political philosophy in order to set the frame for appreciating the novelty of the pragmatist understanding of public reason as based upon the notion of consequences and upon a theory of rationality as inquiry. The approach is inspired by Dewey but is free from any concern with history of philosophy. The aim is to propose a different understanding of the nature of public reason aimed at overcoming the limitations of …Read more
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51Introduction -- Inquiry as the logic of practical reasoning -- From reasoning to judgment -- Expressive inquiry -- The public sphere -- Pragmatism, pluralism, and the fact of relativism -- A pragmatic theory of objectivity -- Why justification matters? -- Pragmatism as an epistemology of practice.
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13John Dewey’s Social PhilosophyEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 7 (2). 2015.This paper provides a fresh examination of John Dewey’s social philosophy in the light of new evidence made available by the recent discovery of the original manuscript Dewey wrote in preparation of the Lectures on Social and Political Philosophy delivered in China and published here for the first time. The paper reconstructs Dewey’s ambivalent relationship with social philosophy throughout his long career and focuses upon his attempt between 1919 and 1923 to develop his own’s social philosophy.…Read more
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3Pragmatism and the Social SciencesEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 4 (1). 2012.This issue continues the symposia on Pragmatism and the Social Sciences: A Century of Influences and Interactions that has appeared in the vol. 2, year 2011 of this journal. For a general introduction to the issue we refer readers to our Editor’s introduction to the volume 1. This new issue, inspired by the same criteria used in the making of the first, is divided in three sections. In the first section, titled “Classical Pragmatists and contemporary sociology” contains three papers, all deal...
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Antropologia della dipendenza: la ragione comunitaria di Alasdair MacIntyreDiscipline Filosofiche 13 (1). 2003.
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33Thomas Kuhn et l’oubli de la pratiqueDialogue 52 (3): 421-448. 2013.I examine Thomas Kuhn’s work regarding the role played by the concept of practice in the development of his theory of scientific rationality. I outline the epistemological implications of his theory of incommensurability. I then show how the original intuition of a practice-based and social conception of incommensurability is replaced by a more conventional linguistic interpretation. I then examine Kuhn’s solution to the problem of incommensurability and explain its inadequacy. I then show that,…Read more
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4Les sources sociales de la normativitéVrin. 2013.Qu’est-ce que la rationalité pratique? Et quelle rôle joue-t-elle dans les pratiques normatives qui structures notre vie sociale et politique? Ce livre propose une réflexion sur les différentes manières de penser le rapport entre rationalité et vie sociale et politique. Il le fait à partir d’une conception de la rationalité comme institution sociale, dont il retrace la généalogie au sein de la philosophie politique anglo-américaine contemporaine. Cette réflexion autour des sources de la rationa…Read more
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Considerazioni preliminari sulla pratica filosofica o sulla filosofia come praticaDiscipline Filosofiche 15 (1). 2005.
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43Richard Bernstein and the Challenge of a Broadened PragmatismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (2): 218-221. 2011.Richard Bernstein is among the pragmatist philosophers that have most significantly contributed to the advancement of a philosophical conversation between the American and the European traditions. His work has greatly helped the task of dismantling the boundaries that in the last decades had been erected between philosophical traditions. It is therefore with the greatest pleasure that The European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy inaugurates his series of monographs with Bernstei...
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What pragmatism means by Public ReasonEtica E Politica 12 (1): 28-51. 2010.In this article I examine the main conceptions of public reason in contemporary political philosophy in order to set the frame for appreciating the novelty of the pragmatist understanding of public reason as based upon the notion of consequences and upon a theory of rationality as inquiry. The approach is inspired by Dewey but is free from any concern with history of philosophy. The aim is to propose a different understanding of the nature of public reason aimed at overcoming the limitations of …Read more
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549Review of C. Koopman, Pragmatism as Transition. Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (review)European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 1 (1). 2009.Koopman’s book revolves around the notion of transition, which he proposes is one of the central ideas of the pragmatist tradition but one which had not previously been fully articulated yet nevertheless shapes the pragmatist attitude in philosophy. Transition, according to Koopman, denotes “those temporal structures and historical shapes in virtue of which we get from here to there”. One of the consequences of transitionalism is the understanding of critique and inquiry as historical pro...
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45A Pragmatist Critique of Liberal Epistemology: Towards a Practice-Based Account of Public ReasonCritical Horizons 12 (3). 2011.This paper tackles with the issue of the place of comprehensive beliefs within the public space. It tries to strike a middle path between the liberal ban on comprehensive beliefs and the anti-liberal claim that comprehensive beliefs should be given full pride of place in public deliberations. The article relies on arguments that are inspired by the pragmatist tradition. It starts locating the main cause of failures at articulating comprehensive beliefs and public reason in a central feature of l…Read more
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1555Pragmatism and the Social Sciences: A Century of Influences and InteractionsEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (2): 1-6. 2011.Richard Bernstein is among the pragmatist philosophers that have most significantly contributed to the advancement of a philosophical conversation between the American and the European traditions. His work has greatly helped the task of dismantling the boundaries that in the last decades had been erected between philosophical traditions. It is therefore with the greatest pleasure that The European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy inaugurates his series of monographs with Bernstei...
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30The Normative Creature: Toward a Practice-Based Account of NormativitySocial Theory and Practice 40 (1): 1-27. 2014.In this paper I offer a first account of a practice-based conception of normativity for the political domain. This standpoint is used to relocate the most sophisticated normative practices of justification and critique within an experience-based framework, that of the human being as a “normative creature.” I begin by discussing the two major paradigms in political theory, showing that their neglect of this broad framework of normativity is a serious drawback. I then proceed to articulate the cen…Read more
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6Colin Koopman, Pragmatism as transition. Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (review)European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 1 (1): 135-141. 2009.Koopman’s book revolves around the notion of transition, which he proposes is one of the central ideas of the pragmatist tradition but one which had not previously been fully articulated yet nevertheless shapes the pragmatist attitude in philosophy. Transition, according to Koopman, denotes “those temporal structures and historical shapes in virtue of which we get from here to there” (2). One of the consequences of transitionalism is the understanding of critique and inquiry as historical pro...
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I Limiti Della Ragione Pubblica: una risposta pragmatista al problema del relativismoDiscipline Filosofiche 17 (2). 2007.
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70Expressive Inquiry and Practical ReasoningJournal of Speculative Philosophy 23 (4): 307-327. 2009.
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Department for Teaching and Research in Philosophy (UFR10)
PhD, 2004
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Social and Political Philosophy |