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25WahrheitIn Michael G. Festl (ed.), Handbuch Pragmatismus, J.b. Metzler. pp. 59-64. 2018.Charles Sanders Peirce hat in The Fixation of Belief die folgende, klassisch gewordene Definition von Wahrheit geliefert: »The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real« (1992, 139). Diese kurze Formulierung weist bereits auf den engen Zusammenhang des pragmatischen Wahrheitsbegriffes mit einer kollektiven Forschungspraxis, mit einem hypothetischen Endzustand der Konvergenz der Mei…Read more
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22Philosophie der ÖffentlichkeitIn Michael G. Festl (ed.), Handbuch Pragmatismus, J.b. Metzler. pp. 377-381. 2018.In einer Zeit, in der die fortdauernde Reproduktion, Verbreitung und Vertiefung demokratischer Regierungs- und Gesellschaftsformen keine Selbstverständlichkeit mehr darstellt, gewinnt die Frage nach der Mobilisierungsfähigkeit nationalstaatlicher und transnationaler Öffentlichkeiten eine kaum zu überschätzende Bedeutung. Nicht nur die steigende Komplexität gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse durch ökonomische und technologische Prozesse und das Fortschreiten sozialer Differenzierung, sondern auch di…Read more
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26ExperimentIn Michael G. Festl (ed.), Handbuch Pragmatismus, J.b. Metzler. pp. 81-85. 2018.Für Pragmatisten sind Experimente wesentlicher Bestandteil eines auf die Suche nach Erkenntnis, Wahrheit oder ›warranted assertibility‹ (s. Kap. 8) gerichteten Untersuchungsprozesses. Sie stellen das Moment des aktiven Eingreifens in die Welt dar. Diesem Moment, einen zentralen Stellenwert zuzusprechen, unterscheidet den Pragmatismus vom klassischen Empirismus wie auch vom Rationalismus. ›Experiment‹ wird als praktische Umsetzung einer im Forschungsprozess formulierten Hypothese durch die intell…Read more
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126John Dewey and Social Criticism: An IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (2): 213-217. 2017.Critical social theories are generally understood to be distinct from other normative theories by their explicit orientation toward emancipation: they not only present normative criteria for assessing the legitimacy or justification of social institutions or merely inquire into the actualized freedom of a given form of social life but claim to point toward a “freedom in view”—an end that might aid those participating in social struggles to overcome the pathological, alienated, or ideological soc…Read more
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203Overcoming Hermeneutical Injustice: Cultural Self-Appropriation and the Epistemic Practices of the OppressedJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (2): 299. 2017.ABSTRACT According to Miranda Fricker, through the generation of cognitive confidence that facilitates the free exchange of individual experiences, mobilized groups are able to generate new symbolic resources that overcome existing gaps in the shared hermeneutical resource. In my essay, I aim at showing that an account of conceptual innovation on the side of mobilized groups must take into consideration deeper transformations of their epistemic practices. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, I dev…Read more
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52Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effectsEuropean Journal of Social Theory 25 (4): 578-595. 2022.This article argues that populism, both in its left-wing and right-wing versions, is a social pathology in the sense contemporary critical theorists give to it. As such, it suffers from a disconnect between first order political practices and the reflexive grasp of the meaning of those practices. This disconnect is due to populists’ ideal of freedom, which they understand as authentic self-expression of ‘the People’, rejecting the need for mediating instances such as parties, parliaments or epis…Read more
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563Articulating the Social. Expressive Domination and Dewey's Epistemic Argument for DemocracyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 1 (1): 1-19. 2022.This paper aims at providing an epistemic defense of democracy based on John Dewey’s idea that democracies do not only find problems and provide solutions to them but they also articulate problems. According to this view, when citizens inquire about collective issues, they also partially shape them. This view contrasts with the standard account of democracy’s epistemic defense, according to which democracy’s is good at tracking and finding solutions that are independent of political will-formati…Read more
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644Is Populism a Social Pathology? The Myth of Immediacy and its EffectsEuropean Journal of Social Theory 1 1-17. 2022.This article argues that populism, both in its left-wing and right-wing versions, is a social pathology in the sense contemporary critical theorists give to it. As such, it suffers from a disconnect between first order political practices and the reflexive grasp of the meaning of those practices. This disconnect is due to populists’ ideal of freedom, which they understand as authentic self-expression of ‘the People’, rejecting the need for mediating instances such as parties, parliaments or epis…Read more
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1108Approfondir la démocratie avec John Dewey : pratiques épistémiques et mouvements sociaux.Pragmata 2 63-110. 2019.Comment l’oeuvre de Dewey nous aide-t-elle à rendre compte du potentiel de démocratisation des luttes sociales, tout en mettant l’accent sur leurs activités d’enquête* ? Au-delà des approches délibératives, une approche deweyenne montre comment les mobilisations collectives, qui visent à produire des « cadres d’injustice » et à promouvoir des « relations justes », ont le potentiel d’approfondir la pratique démocratique. Mon argumentation s’organise en trois temps. Tout d’abord, elle montre comme…Read more
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106Articulating a Sense of Powers: An Expressivist Reading of John Dewey's Theory of Social MovementsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (1): 53. 2017.In the series of lectures he delivered during the two years he spent in China, John Dewey provided the most complete version of his theory of social conflict and struggle. The two textual sources from this time we have at our disposal – the doubly translated lectures published in Honolulu2 and Dewey’s original notes recently published under the name of Lectures in Social and Political Philosophy 3 – outline an original understanding of social conflict as taking place between groups with differen…Read more
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135A realist epistemic utopia? Epistemic practices in a climate campJournal of Social Philosophy 53 (1): 38-58. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 38-58, Spring 2022.
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103Populism or pragmatism? Two ways of understanding political articulationConstellations 28 (4): 496-510. 2021.Constellations, EarlyView.
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953Articulating the social: Expressive domination and Dewey’s epistemic argument for democracyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 48 (10): 1445-1463. 2022.This paper aims at providing an epistemic defense of democracy based on John Dewey’s idea that democracies do not only find problems and provide solutions to them but they also articulate problems. According to this view, when citizens inquire about collective issues, they also partially shape them. This view contrasts with the standard account of democracy’s epistemic defense, according to which democracy’s is good at tracking and finding solutions that are independent of political will-formati…Read more
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41Can Truth (or Problem-Solving) Do More for Democracy?Krisis 40 (1): 82-90. 2020.This essay is part of a dossier on Cristina Lafont's book Democracy without Shortcuts.
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58In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the WestWendyBrown. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019Constellations 28 (2): 285-287. 2021.Constellations, EarlyView.
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