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15Improving concepts, reshaping values: pragmatism and ameliorative projectsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.In this paper, I argue that positions from the historical tradition of pragmatism can offer insights into the role that values play in ameliorative projects. By focusing on Sally Haslanger’s ameliorative project regarding gender, I will try to show how the Deweyan idea of the circuit provides a convincing understanding of the mutual interplay between values and conceptual revision within ameliorative approaches. I propose to understand this circuit as a process of articulation, through which our…Read more
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16Peirce on Vagueness and Common SenseTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 59 (2): 127-166. 2023.Abstract:"Issues of Pragmaticism" (1905) contains the only published version of Peirce's doctrine of "critical common-sensism." One of the claims of that doctrine is that common sense beliefs are invariably vague. In this paper, we seek to explain this claim. We begin by providing a philological reconstruction of the drafts of "Issues of Pragmaticism" and a comparison of Peirce's several, successive expositions of critical common-sensism across those drafts. Then we examine Peirce's theory of va…Read more
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17George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-First Century (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.While rooted in careful study of Mead’s original writings and transcribed lectures and the historical context in which that work was carried out, the papers in this volume have brought Mead’s work to bear on contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and political philosophy
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3Riscoprire Jane Addams: filosofia sociale, etica, e attivismo politicola Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
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9Reality: la realtà tra filosofia e scienze (edited book)goWare. 2015.Che cos'e la realta, cosa definisce il reale? Hegel ci ha detto che tutto cio che e reale e razionale, ma non ci ha detto che cosa e reale. Una roccia e reale o sono reali solamente i suo elementi primari? Sembrano interrogativi piuttosto eccentrici e con scarsa valenza pratica giornaliera. Eppure filosofi, scienziati e studiosi di scienze sociali si vanno interrogando sui fondamenti della realta e sulle ragioni del realismo, il costrutto teorico del reale. Questo testo per la prima volta propon…Read more
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13Esperienza, contingenza, valori: saggi in onore di Rosa M. Calcaterra (edited book)Quodlibet. 2020.
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7Concepts, habitudes et le pragmatisme mal entenduRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 147 (4): 491-508. 2022.La critique de la philosophie de William James qu’Émile Durkheim développe dans Pragmatisme et sociologie est examinée selon deux aspects : 1) le désaccord entre James et Durkheim sur le problème des concepts et de la conceptualisation ; 2) l’échec presque total de Durkheim à considérer le thème le plus proprement sociologique du travail de James : sa théorie de l’ habit (ou habitude). Dans les deux cas, référence est faite au rôle joué (et parfois non joué) dans la critique de Durkheim par les …Read more
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6Between Problematization and EvaluationEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 13 (2). 2021.In this article I want to reconstruct some threads of the recent discussions on pragmatism and genealogy. As a starting point for this discussion, I will discuss Koopman’s proposal of a division of labor between genealogy and pragmatism. While preserving his emphasis on the centrality of problematization in genealogical inquiry, I will try to challenge his ideas about the incompatibility between genealogies that problematize, and genealogies that vindicate. In the subsequent parts of the paper, …Read more
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20Making it abstract, making it contestable: politicization at the intersection of political and cognitive scienceReview of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (4): 1257-1278. 2023.The notion of politicization has been often assimilated to that of partisanship, especially in political and social sciences. However, these accounts underestimate more fine-grained, and yet pivotal, aspects at stake in processes of politicization. In addition, they overlook cognitive mechanisms underlying politicizing practices. Here, we propose an integrated approach to politicization relying on recent insights from both social and political sciences, as well as cognitive science. We outline t…Read more
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24Populism or pragmatism? Two ways of understanding political articulationConstellations 28 (4): 496-510. 2021.Constellations, EarlyView.
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8Security as CompletenessEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 9 (1). 2017.Peirce’s anti-psychologism hinges on two main assumptions. First, logic and psychology belong to two separate disciplines – respectively, the normative sciences and the experimental sciences. Second, externalism must be understood as a crucial and inescapable epistemological criterion. The introspectionist illusion, according to which individuals have direct and epistemologically flawless access to their own internal states, should be dismissed. As Colapietro (2003) and Calcaterra (2006) observe…Read more
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43The Philosophy of Gesture: Completing Pragmatists' Incomplete Revolution by Giovanni MaddalenaThe Pluralist 13 (2): 119-122. 2018.The Philosophy of Gesture by Giovanni Maddalena is a multilayered volume: It is a "history of philosophy" book, endorsing a challenging anti-Kantian interpretation of Peirce and pragmatism. It is a "theoretical philosophy" book, dealing with classic issues—for example, the difference between synthetic and analytic, the definition of identity—and introducing a new concept, that of complete gesture. Finally, it is a book of "applied philosophy," pointing to a further application of the new concept…Read more
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5Una nuova teoria del conflitto? Il contributo di Mary Parker FollettSocietà Degli Individui 66 93-98. 2020.
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3Generalizzare, proiettare, evitare i gesti incompleti come strumento di analisi psicologicaLebenswelt. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 13. 2019.This article aims to apply the classification of incomplete gestures introduced by Maddalena as a tool for understanding and classifying different attachment patterns. In the first section the classification of incomplete gestures proposed by Maddalena will be reconstructed. In the second part the relationship between communication and attachment will be introduced through a brief critical survey of the psychological literature dedicated to this subject. In the third part I aim to show how the s…Read more
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17Interview with Larry A. HickmanEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 7 (2). 2015.Michela Bella & Matteo Santarelli – What was the state of Pragmatism studies when you first encountered pragmatism? Larry A. Hickman – After completing my undergraduate degree in psychology I decided that I wanted to study philosophy. In order to prepare for graduate school, I spent a year taking philosophy courses at the University of Texas in Austin. The faculty included Charles Hartshorne, who was co-editor of the Peirce Collected Papers. There was also David L. Miller and George Gentry, b...Read more
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3Conflitto, interessi, bisogni. Le Lezioni in Cina di John DeweySocietà Degli Individui 63 47-60. 2019.
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4Leszek Koczanowicz, Politics of Dialogue: Non-consensual Democracy and Critical CommunityEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 9 (1). 2017.The crisis of democracy is among the most compelling problems of our times. This crisis has prompted and provoked heterogeneous theoretical answers, of which the deliberative and the agonistic models represent two of the most important responses. The first proposal – as an example I will take Habermas’s version – states the importance of a mutually recognized normative background, which allows for the construction of a ground level of agreement and makes democratic discussion possible. The se...
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5Note di lettura. Il sogno di Gesù / Il risveglio del Sé / I dilemmi della democraziaSocietà Degli Individui 50 165-172. 2014.
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7From Others to the Other: A Psychoanalytical Reading of George Herbert MeadIn F. Thomas Burke & Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski (eds.), George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-First Century, Lexington Press. pp. 159. 2013.
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7Oltre individuale e sociale.Dewey filosofo della cultura, della natura e della politicaSocietà Degli Individui 67 105-109. 2020.
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6Giancarlo Marchetti, La contingenza dei fatti e l’ogggettività dei valoriEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2). 2014.Giancarlo Marchetti’s La contingenza dei fatti e l’oggettività dei valori is a collection of nine essays concerning the fact–value debate. Among the authors, we find some of the most important protagonists of contemporary philosophy, including Donald Davidson and Hilary Putnam, to whom we probably owe the renaissance of the issue discussed in Marchetti’s volume. Undoubtedly, Putnam’s 2002 book The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Lo...
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13Interview with Charlene Haddock SeigfriedEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 7 (2). 2015.Michela Bella & Matteo Santarelli – What did you know about Pragmatism when you started? Where did you start as a student? Charlene Haddock Seigfried – I came to pragmatism by way of existentialism. During the late sixties, I took my first graduate class at the University of Southern California – an introduction to empiricism – which I didn’t like at all, and I also attended a lecture on existentialism, which intrigued me. But I was always interested in social and political issues and I was m...Read more
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10Recensione di G. Baggio, F. Caruana, A. Parravicini, M. Viola (a cura di), Emozioni. Da Darwin al pragmatismoRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 11 (3): 420-421. 2020.
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6Beyond culturalism: A Deweyan reading of the expansion of 'NdranghetaPragmatism Today 7 (2): 66-78. 2016.