The Italian Pragmatists : Between Allies and Enemies / edited by Giovanni Maddalena, Giovanni Tuzet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maddalena, Giovanni, editor.

Tuzet, Giovanni, editor.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 352.

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 352

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Between Allies and Enemies

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2021.

Summary:

The Italian Pragmatists were a group of philosophers in the early 20th century, most notably including Giovanni Vailati, Mario Calderoni, Giovanni Papini and Giuseppe Prezzolini. They gathered around the journal Leonardo , published in Florence. The Italian philosophers were in contact with the American Pragmatists, especially with C.S.V. Peirce and W. James, and developed many original and provocative ideas that made the Italian Pragmatists allies and enemies. Critics have often stressed the differences between their versions of Pragmatism. This volume emphasizes what they shared, and their value for philosophy and culture.

Contents:

Introduction: The Sign of the Four

Giovanni Maddalena and Giovanni Tuzet

1 Pragmatism in Florence: the Magicians and the Logicians

Cornelis De Waal

2 Giovanni Vailati and the Art of Reasoning

Giovanni Maddalena

3 Algebraic Grammar, Geometric Grammar: Vailati and Peirce

Susanna Marietti

4 Do Normative Predictions Make Sense?: pragmatism and Ethics in Calderoni

Giovanni Tuzet

5 Two Faces of Italian Pragmatism: the Prezzolini-Calderoni Debate, 1904-1905

E. Paul Colella

6 "Tell Your Friend Giuliano...": Jamesian Enthusiasms and Peircean Reservations

Vincent Colapietro

7 Giuseppe Prezzolini's Pragmatic Interlude: a Reply to Colapietro

8 Pain, Beliefs, Action: Papini and the Debate between Psychology and Philosophy in Italy at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Maria Teresa Russo

9 Toward a "Critique of Hypothetical Reason": Erminio Juvalta and the Italian Pragmatists

Anna Maria Nieddu

10 Making Truth and Reality: magic Pragmatism as a Guide for Action

Francesca Bordogna

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44087-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004440876 DOI