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John Stuart Mill and John Dewey: Individuality, Emotions, and SocietySalesianum 86 (2): 348-357. 2024.This paper aims to contribute to the present philosophical debate on the emotions, connecting John Stuart Mill and John Dewey. Despite the different historical and theoretical- epistemological background, their deep interest in democracy is an important point of contact between them. Particularly, for both the thinkers the affective and aesthetic sphere has a pivotal role in the development of the individual in a democratic society. The discourse firstly illustrates Dewey’s criticisms of Mill’s …Read more
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28Dewey on Familiarity in Education, Aesthetics, and ArtEducational Theory 73 (6): 822-832. 2024.In this paper, Andrea Fiore sketches the notion of familiarity in Dewey's thought, particularly in its relations with education, aesthetics, and art. The importance of that notion emerges in Dewey's well-known writings such as How We Think, The School and Society, and Art as Experience, where he shows that not only does familiarity play a fundamental role in our lives, but it also constitutes a helpful tool to make our experience deeper and richer. This is particularly evident in two aspects or …Read more
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79Eclisse. Definitiva scomparsa o temporaneo occultamento?Asterios. 2021.Il termine “eclisse” (o eclissi) rimanda al fenomeno astronomico dell’oscuramento della luna o del sole. La stessa parola nel linguaggio figurato indica l’offuscamento o la scomparsa definitiva di una personalità, di un movimento o perfino di un’intera epoca. In questo tempo pandemico assistiamo all’eclisse di molte (pseudo) certezze, a cominciare dall’inviolabilità della sfera personale. Si tratta di una definitiva scomparsa oppure di un occultamento solo temporaneo? Quando la pandemia sarà pas…Read more
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90Le emozioni. Una questione filosoficaTab Edizioni. 2023.Cosa sono le emozioni? Non è una domanda facile. I filosofi si interrogano su di esse fin dall’antichità e per rispondere al quesito hanno percorso molte strade, giungendo a spiegazioni diverse. Nonostante le ricerche fondamentali di fine Ottocento, non c’è ancora una risposta univoca né definitiva: Darwin, James e Dewey hanno posto le basi di un lavoro che oggi continua a impegnare la filosofia in stretta collaborazione con le scienze.
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14Amore e perfezionamento umano nel pensiero di John Stuart MillIn Maurizio Marin & Tiziano Conti (eds.), L'amore come perfezione dell'esistenza, Las. pp. 87-106. 2023.This paper describes the role of love as it emerges in John Stuart Mill’s thought in the light of his idea of human development. The discourse starts from Mill’s view of emotions and sentiments to come to internal culture, through which the human development is fulfilled. Since in the internal culture love is related to sympathy and moral feelings, there will be highlighted its connecting role between individual and collective dimensions. The latter forms itself into the family and extends to th…Read more
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8This paper aims to suggest some philosophical hints for an environmental education inspired by everyday aesthetics, a comparatively recent research field with many educational and ecological implications. Starting from the definition of everyday aesthetics, the discourse lingers on the connections between everyday aesthetics and education to finally come to the notion of “de-familiarization of familiar”, useful to dismantle the relation human being-environment in order to reconstruct it within a…Read more
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111Pragmatism, Realism and HermeneuticsCritical Hermeneutics 6 (2). 2022.This paper aims to analyse the notion of familiarity in Dewey’s pragmatism in order to show its important role as a tool for human beings to interpret the reality, manage it, and act within it. Starting from an examination of Deweyan transactional realism, the discourse focuses on familiarity and its related terms (such as “familiar,” “to familiarize,” but also opposites such as “unknown” or “strange”) in Dewey’s thought, to finally come to highlight its fundamental hermeneutic role. This might …Read more
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9This paper aims to suggest some philosophical hints for an environmental education inspired by everyday aesthetics, a comparatively recent research field with many educational and ecological implications. Starting from the definition of everyday aesthetics, the discourse lingers on the connections between everyday aesthetics and education to finally come to the notion of “de-familiarization of familiar”, useful to dismantle the relation human being-environment in order to reconstruct it within a…Read more
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84Pragmatismo, realismo ed ermeneutica: la familiarità in Dewey come strumento di interpretazioneCritical Hermeneutics 6 (2): 235-253. 2022.This paper aims to analyse the notion of familiarity in Dewey’s pragmatism in order to show its important role as a tool for human beings to interpret the reality, manage it, and act within it. Starting from an examination of Deweyan transactional realism, the discourse focuses on familiarity and its related terms (such as “familiar,”“to familiarize,”but also opposites such as “unknown” or “strange”) in Dewey’s thought, to finally come to highlight its fundamental hermeneutic role. Th…Read more
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82Nel 1884 usciva l’articolo What is an Emotion?, con il quale William James, nel clima scientifico influenzato dalle idee di Darwin, provava a dare una risposta ad un interrogativo oggi ancora aperto. Le emozioni, infatti, sono attualmente un campo di ricerca interdisciplinare dove c’è ancora molto da scoprire. Questo libro intende offrire un contributo dal punto di vista filosofico, trattando la questione delle emozioni attraverso un percorso che parte dall’empirismo associazionistico di J. S. M…Read more
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5Nazismo e magiaIn Maurizio Marin & Tiziano Conti (eds.), Ragione e magia: stimolo o rovina?, Las. pp. 117-135. 2022.Il volume confronta due forme di sapere: quello della ragione e quello della magia. Nella prima parte T. Doni presenta le diverse interpretazioni del fenomeno della magia fornite dalle scuole antropologiche sviluppatesi in Europa tra l’Ottocento e il Novecento; A.E. Okonkwo illustra l’interpretazione della magia secondo la prospettiva della tribù nigeriana degli Igbo; I. Faat e M. Marin leggono il culto della dea Iside dall’antico Egitto a tutto il Mediterraneo; F. Sánchez Leyva mostra il dualis…Read more
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337Dewey’s and Pareyson’s AestheticsEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 14 (1): 25-37. 2022.Even though the American thinker John Dewey and the Italian Luigi Pareyson belong to two different philosophical traditions, on the aesthetic ground they show many resonances and similarities. Using Pareyson’s words, “just as it happens between people, who in particularly happy encounters […] reveal themselves to each other,” it is therefore possible to have Dewey’s aesthetics and Pareyson’s dialogue with each other, highlighting their affinities. This operation can strengthen the idea that the …Read more
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2Democracy, Education, and Transaction: the Importance of Play in Dewey's ThoughtIn Jim Garrison, Johan Öhman & Leif Östman (eds.), Deweyan Transactionalism in Education: Beyond Self-Action and Inter-Action, Bloomsbury. pp. 75-86. 2022.Philosophers of education are largely unaware of Dewey's concept of transactionalism, yet it is implicit in much of his philosophy, educational or otherwise from the late 1890s onwards. Written by scholars from Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA, this book shows how transactionalism can offer an entirely new way of understanding teaching and learning, the individual and sociocultural dimension of education, and educational research. The contributors show how the concept helps us to see …Read more
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5The purpose of this chapter is to present Martha Nussbaum’s position about history and memory in democratic education, and to develop some considerations, starting from Nussbaum’s proposal, to show the importance of both history and memory for the construction of a political sphere based upon healthy emotions. Along the discourse it is highlighted, on one side, the meaning of history as a science, and on the other side its value as a tool to make available, through the memory, an endowment usefu…Read more
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231Democrazia e educazione: il valore pedagogico del gioco in John DeweyPer la Filosofia 36 (2): 97-104. 2019.This paper sketches some elements that define the pedagogical significance of play for the construction and the conservation of a democratic community. Starting from the main principles of Dewey's pedagogy, the discourse focuses on play, intended as the philosophic category of the ludic, first, in connection to doing and experience, two fundamental notions of Dewey’s thought and his philosophy of education; then, it moves towards the relationship between play and work to come, finally, to play i…Read more
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66Cura del sé e dell'altro: emozioni e sfera socio-politica tra filosofia ellenistica, Dewey e NussbaumPer la Filosofia 37 (2-3): 160-164. 2020.Starting from Hellenistic philosophy, this paper highlights the importance of the emotions for treatment of social evils on a path that links John Dewey to Martha Nussbaum. The main issue is how to treat those evils without excluding the individual from the society. Following the medical analogy as central idea, it is made visible that effective therapy must include, both theoretically and practically, the Deweyan notion of integration between individual and environment. Starting with this idea,…Read more
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History of Western Philosophy, Misc |
19th Century British Philosophy |
American Pragmatism |
John Dewey |