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Pragmatism and American Philosophy: a new journal

domenica, 6 Dicembre, 2009
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A new journal devoted to Pragmatism and American Philosophy has recently been launched. The journal is peer reviewed and it is published twice a year. The first issue is devoted to Europe and American Pragmatism: influences and interactions. Articles can be downloaded at http://www.journalofpragmatism.eu. The next issue will appear in July 2010 and will host…

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Pragmatism, Ontology and Ordinary Objects (by Lynne Baker)

giovedì, 3 Dicembre, 2009
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Lynne Baker’s Constitution Theory seems to be the farthest-reaching and yet the most subtly elaborated anti-reductive metaphysics available today. Its original theoretical contribution is a non-mereological theory of material constitution, which apparently (i) complies with modern natural science, and yet (ii) rescues the concrete everyday world, and ourselves in it, from ontological vanity or nothingness,…

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