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23Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 1 From Theory to Practice (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area. The first part of the book, entitled ‘Theoretical Approaches to Philosophy of Language’, contains contributions by philosophers of language on connectives, intensional contexts, demonstratives, subsententials, and implicit indirect reports. The second part, ‘Pragmatics in Discourse’, presents contributions that are more em…Read more
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47Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributors include philosophers, theoretical linguists, socio-pragmaticians, and cognitive scientists. The book is divided into four sections following the provenance of the authors. Combining the voices from leading and emerging authors in the field, it offers a detailed picture of indirect reports in the world’s languages and their significance for theoretical linguistics. Building on th…Read more
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17Transgression: Ordinary and OtherwiseFilm-Philosophy 5 (1). 2001.Thomas E. Wartenberg _Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism_ Boulder: Westview Press, 1999 ISBN: 0-8133-3438-1 (hb); 0-8133-3439-X (pb) 254 pp
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5Capone, Bucca, Warner and Llewellyn on Pragmemes and “I hope You Will Let Flynn Go”In Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza & Franco Lo Piparo (eds.), Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications, Springer Verlag. pp. 587-594. 2019.In this volume, Alessandro Capone and Antonino Bucca’s essay makes a case, based upon the theory of pragmemes and socio-pragmatics, for taking Donald Trump’s statement to Comey, “I hope you will let Flynn go,” as an attempt of the President to get the then Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Comey to illegitimately drop the Russian probe, therefore being an illegal act of obstruction of justice. Their argument rests upon the claim that in this specific case, deniers of obstruction of justic…Read more
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Law and pragmatism : an introductionIn Frank X. Ryan, Brian E. Butler, James A. Good & John R. Shook (eds.), The real Metaphysical Club: the philosophers, their debates, and selected writings from 1870 to 1885, Suny Press, State University of New York. 2019.
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11The real Metaphysical Club: the philosophers, their debates, and selected writings from 1870 to 1885 (edited book)SUNY Press, State University of New York. 2019.The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s associated with Harvard, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America's distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand's bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James - appear in this book, alongside other thinkers such as John Dewey who were never in the Club. The Real …Read more
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4Law and Indirect Reports: Citation and PrecedentIn Alessandro Capone, Una Stojnic, Ernie Lepore, Denis Delfitto, Anne Reboul, Gaetano Fiorin, Kenneth A. Taylor, Jonathan Berg, Herbert L. Colston, Sanford C. Goldberg, Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka, Magdalena Sztencel, Sarah E. Duffy, Alessandra Falzone, Paola Pennisi, Péter Furkó, András Kertész, Ágnes Abuczki, Alessandra Giorgi, Sona Haroutyunian, Marina Folescu, Hiroko Itakura, John C. Wakefield, Hung Yuk Lee, Sumiyo Nishiguchi, Brian E. Butler, Douglas Robinson, Kobie van Krieken, José Sanders, Grazia Basile, Antonino Bucca, Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri & Kobie van Krieken (eds.), Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages, Springer Verlag. pp. 357-369. 2018.In this chapter Alessandro Capone’s claim as the intimate relationship between legal reasoning and indirect reports is investigated through looking at legal citation practices, use of case law, and statutory and constitutional interpretation. Capone’s thought is informed in the chapter through a reference to the work of Ronald Dworkin and Edward H. Levi. The conclusion of the chapter is that Capone is correct that use of indirect reporting in law is ubiquitous and therefore warrants careful stud…Read more
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18Dworkin’s “Semantic Sting” and Behavioral PragmaticsIn Keith Allan, Jay David Atlas, Brian E. Butler, Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza, Valentina Cuccio, Denis Delfitto, Michael Devitt, Graeme Forbes, Alessandra Giorgi, Neal R. Norrick, Nathan Salmon, Gunter Senft, Alberto Voltolini & Richard Warner (eds.), Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 1 From Theory to Practice, Springer Verlag. pp. 259-273. 2018.Ronald Dworkin in Law’s Empire famously utilized what he described as the “semantic sting” to explain both why the concept of “law” is an essentially contestable concept and because of this why the concept of law is also essentially interpretive. Ultimately Dworkin’s theory makes law and legal practice on all levels turn on, in his terms, an essentially semantic dispute over what the best conception of law is. That is, law is in all its worldly glory ultimately an interpretive concept based upon…Read more
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2The Democratic Constitution: Experimentalism and InterpretationUniversity of Chicago Press. 2017.48 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2017 The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpreter of constitutional law took hold only relatively recently. Drawing on the pragmatic ideals characterized by Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, Charles Sabel, and Richard Posner. Brian E. Butler shows how this conception…Read more
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49Alva Nöe. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, written by Brian E. ButlerContemporary Pragmatism 14 (2): 243-258. 2017.
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93Dews, Dworks, and Poses Decide LochnerContemporary Pragmatism 7 (2): 15-44. 2010.Lochner represents a crucial case in American constitutional law. An investigation of the decision highlights important philosophical aspects of the place of law in a democratic society. Analysis of contemporary stances on Lochner, the actual Lochner opinion (including the dissents by Harlan and Holmes) and how judges following the legal philosophies of John Dewey, Ronald Dworkin and Richard Posner (“Dews,” “Dworks,” and “Poses”) would have decided the case shows that Dewey’s theory of law and d…Read more
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Taking Rorty's Liberal Ironist Seriously: A Portrait of the Circumscribed PoetDissertation, The Claremont Graduate University. 1993.Richard Rorty believes that the combination of ironism and poetic impulse when attached to the public/private distinction, creates an opening for a type of liberalism that satisfies both the urge for individuality and the urge for solidarity. Rorty's antirealistic pragmatism leads to a society functioning very much like our own. This Dissertation dredges out some of the very contentious underlying assumptions of what Rorty feels is a philosophy-less vision. The ironic poet is Rorty's paradigm of…Read more
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64Legal Pragmatism: Banal or Beneficial as a Jurisprudential Position?Essays in Philosophy 3 (2): 14. 2002.
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Oren Ben-Dor, Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (2): 92-94. 2002.
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10Book Review of Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (review)Education and Culture 28 (1): 9. 2012.
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2Constructing a Pragmatic Conception of Human Rights: The Contribution of T.H. GreenReview Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (2): 103-121. 2009.
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203Seeing Ecology and Seeing as Ecology: On Brereton's Hollywood Utopia and the Anderson's Moving Image TheoryFilm-Philosophy 11 (1): 61-69. 2007.Joseph D. Anderson & Barbara Fisher Anderson Moving Image Theory: Ecological ConsiderationsCarbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.ISBN 0 8093 2599 3253pp.Pat Brereton Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American CinemaBristol: Intellect.ISBN 1 84150117 4270pp
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10Law’s Image of Pragmatism — Another Legal Fiction (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (1): 151-157. 2004.
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20Democratic ExperimentalismBrill Rodopi. 2013.This volume focuses on democratic experimentalism, gathering a collection of original and previously unpublished essays focusing upon its major outlines, as well as specific aspects ¿ both promising and troublesome - of this theoretical approach. Together these essays offer conceptions of democracy and democratic governance that emphasize and highlight experimentalist aspects of pragmatic thought, particularly Deweyan pragmatism, and its relationship to instantiation in concrete social and polit…Read more
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19The Necessity of Understanding Thumos, and the Misuse of Emotion in Modern Political Theory, The Review of Communication, VolThe Review of Communication 2 (2). 2002.
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Oren Ben-Dor, Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere (review)Philosophy in Review 22 92-94. 2002.
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8InvisiBle manIn Harold Bloom Blake Hobby (ed.), Bloom's Literary Themes: Civil Disobedience, . pp. 163. 2010.
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