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Book SynopsisThis book offers a selection of the papers of the Women in Pragmatism International Conference held at the University of Barcelona in January 2020. The conference gathered women and non-binary scholars from twelve different countries. This was the first pragmatist conference organized entirely by women and non-binary persons. It has initiated a stable network of mentoring and support analogous to other women philosophers’ organizations. The book provides paths to reconstruct the roots of pragmatism, integrating the works of women pragmatists of the past and linking them to the current developments of feminist and pragmatist topics. Scholars of different countries, status, and backgrounds serve as a powerful example of the trend toward interdisciplinary cooperation and versatility we might expect for the future of pragmatism. The book is of interest for scholars interested in both pragmatism and feminism, from various perspectives ranging from psychology to semiotics, logic, and sociology, wishing to expand their horizons and understand their relevant interactions.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Women in Pragmatism: Past, Present and Future (
Núria Sara Miras Boronat and Michela Bella)
I. PAST: THE RECOVERY OF THE CLASSICS
Marilyn Fischer (University of Dayton, USA): The Growth of Feminist Pragmatism through Cooperative Intelligence
Michela Bella (University of Molise, Italy): Unconventional legacy in American Psychology of Self: William James and Mary Whiton Calkins
Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe (Universidad de Navarra, Spain): Christine Ladd and the form of syllogisms
Federica Gregoratto (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland): Transformative experience and the art of emancipation
Ann Warde (Independent, USA): Instigators of Experimental Artwork: Resonances of Jane Addams in arts education
Susan Petrilli (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy): On Sense, Meaning, and Responsibility. Contributions from Victoria Welby’s Significs
Laura Camas Garrido (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): The educational meaning of children’s play: A comparative study of the Philosophy of Education of J. Addams and N. Noddings
Agnieszka Hensoldt (University of Opole, Poland): Looking for pragmatist roots of degrowth ideas: Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Caroline Bartlett Crane
Núria Sara Miras Boronat (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain): Towards a pragmatist and feminist theory of oppression: thoughts on gender, race and class
L. Ryan Musgrave (Rollins College, FL, USA): Pragmatist Feminists as the Conscience of the U.S.: Minding the Social Fabric, 1900’s – 2020
II. PRESENT: CONTRIBUTIONS TO CURRENT PRAGMATIST DEBATES
Aubrey C. Spivey (Arizona State University, USA): Reason, Truth, and Counterexample
Alina Mierlus (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain): Pragrammatology: pragmatism after deconstruction
Mónica Sámbade (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain): Reading and interpreting ancient and classical corpus. A discussion concerning linguistics and neopragmatism
Teresa Roversi (Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy): From individuality to personhood in Dewey’s later works
Bruna Picas (University of Barcelona, Spain): Blurring the Differences between Hegel and Wittgenstein: a Response to Robert Brandom
Yvonne Hütter (Università di Bologna, Italy): Different forms of inescapability of norms: Brandom, Ramberg, and Rorty on causality and normativity
Llanos Navarro-Laespada (University of Granada, Spain): Where are ethical properties? Representationalism, Expressivism and Category Mistakes
Anna Boncompagni (University of California, Irvine, USA): Ethnocentrism without relativism? Taking Rorty at face-value
Charlie Brousseau (ENS de Lyon, France): Holding a world in common: epistemic pluralism and objectivity in pragmatist feminism
III. FUTURE: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
Sarah Aline Wellan (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany): Pragmatism and scientific perspectivism Dina Mendonça (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal): The Pragmatist Foundations of Philosophy for Children and the Education of Reasonableness
Maura Striano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy): The educational value of “mental non resistance” and “understanding” to foster intellectual and social life. A lesson from Jane Addams
Hypatia Pétriz Haddad (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain): Playing between the Fabrics. The roots of the Playground Movement and the actual configuration of the cities
Pauline Lefebvre (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): Towards pragmatist forms of political engagements in architecture Ager Pérez Casanovas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain): Teaching Philosophy in Aesthetic Environments: From M. Greene's Blue Guitar lessons to the Picasso Museum of Barcelona
Zoe Hurley (Zayed University, Abu Dabi): My Dear Lady Welby: A Peircean-Welby Semiotic Framework for Multicultural and Feminist Understandings of Gulf-Arab Women’s Social Media Practices
