The First European Pragmatism Conference Programme Outline Inquiries within the Logical Space of Reasons Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins) “Knowledge in Practice” Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin) Wednesday, 19 September “Why Interpretation Cannot be Naturalised?” Kenneth Westphal (University of East Anglia) 9.30-13.00 “Conventionalism and the Impoverishment of the Space of Reasons” James O’Shea (University College Dublin) 11.00-11.30 Coffee break, foyer Aula Magna “Experiential Givenness and Inferential Articulation: Pragmatists on Seeing and Saying” Chair: Mathias Girel Pragmatism in the Context of Modern Philosophy Sala Professori, I floor Emil Visnovsky (University of Bratislava) “Introductory: Situating Pragmatism Today (Pragmatism and Modern Philosophy)” Naturalism, Language and Agency Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki) Eirik Julius Risberg (University of Oslo) “The Unity and Diversity of Pragmatist Thought” “The Objectivity of the Past” Russell B. Goodman (University of New Mexico) Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Tampere) “Some Sources of Hilary Putnam's Pluralism” “Quine and Two Kinds of Ontological Pragmatism” Vincent Colapietro (Penn State University) Jonathan Knowles (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) “Telling Tales Out of School: Pragmatic Reflections on Philosophical Storytelling” “Non-reductive Naturalism and the Vocabulary of Agency” Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (University of Opole) Bjørn Ramberg (University of Oslo) “The Reception of American Pragmatism in Continental Europe in Light of Socio- “Transcendental Temptations and Pragmatist Cures: Naturalist Framings of the Political Factors” Distinctively Human” Chair: Emil Visnovsky Chair: Torjus Midtgarden Aula Verra, ground floor Sala Conferenze, ground floor

Art, Experience, and Practices of Art BREAK John Ryder (American University of Ras Al Khaimah) “Central Park in the Dark: The Aesthetic Intersection of City and Countryside” Larry Hickman (Southern Illinois University) “In Praise of Quotidian Aesthetics” Lyubov Bugaeva (St. Petersburg State University) “The Emotional Body and Visual Experience” Chair: Roberta Dreon Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor

1 14.30-18.00 Young European Pragmatists: Knowledge Maria Luisi (Università di Roma Tre) 16.00-16.30 Coffee break, foyer Aula Magna “Perception and Metaphysics: Perceptual Experience in Charles Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead” Habit, Action and Knowledge Roman Madzia (Brno University) Erkki Kilpinen (University of Helsinki) “Mead, Dewey, and Extended Cognition: The Relevance of the Chicago School for “Habit, Action, and Knowledge, from the Pragmatist Perspective” Contemporary Cognitive Science” Lauri Järvilehto (Aalto University) Gabriele Gava (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) “Intuition and Habits” “C. I. Lewis on the Tasks of Philosophy” Martin Thellefsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark) Maria Regina Brioschi (Università di Milano) “A Pragmatic Semeiotic Perspective on the Concept of Information Need” “The Problem of Novelty in C. S. Peirce's and A. N. Whitehead's Thought” Heikki A. Kovalainen (University of Tampere) Chair: Vincent Colapietro Chair: Stefano Oliverio Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor Sala Conferenze, ground floor Young European Pragmatists: Conduct Pluralism, Democracy and Justice Tullio Viola (Humboldt Universität) Michael Festl (University of St. Gallen) “Two Aristotelians: Peirce and Ravaisson” “Justice as Historical Experimentalism” Sarin Marchetti (University College Dublin) Antje Gimmler (Aalborg University) “Theory and Practice of Conduct in James” “Pragmatism as Practices - Beyond the Practice Turn” Emma Sutton (University College London) Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University) “‘Health’ is the Only Good: William James on Therapeutic Conduct “Pragmatism and Pluralism Revisited” Andrea Parravicini (Università di Milano) Joseph Urbas (Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux III) “A Pragmatist and Evolutionary Perspective for a Genealogy of Self. Considerations on “Does Emerson's Pluralism Go All the Way Down?” G. H. Mead's Thought on Mind, Language and Society” Chair: Henrik Rydenfelt Chair: Russell Goodman Aula Verra, ground floor Sala riunioni del Dipartimento di Filosofia, II floor

Frameworks of Rationality BREAK Dirk-Martin Grube (University of Utrecht) “Epistemic Justification” 18.00-19.00 Miklós Nyírő (University of Miskolc) “Rorty, Dewey, and Incommensurability” Joint session Olivier Sartenaer (Université catholique de Louvain) & David Doat (Université Guido Fabiani, President, Università di Roma Tre Catholique de Lille) Elio Matassi, Chair, Department of Philosophy “John Dewey, Lloyd Morgan and the Advent of a Pragmatico-Emergentist Naturalism” Giacomo Marramao, Chair, Philosophy Program David Zapero (Université Paris 1) Rosa M. Calcaterra, Associazione Pragma “The Implicitness of Normativity. On Being a Pragmatist about Norms” Sami Pihlström, Nordic Pragmatism Network Chair: Rossella Fabbrichesi Aula Magna Sala Professori, I floor

2 Thursday, 20 September Invited Panel: C.S. Peirce Society Marco Annoni (Università Bicocca) 9.30-13.00 “When the Map Is the Territory: Peirce, James, and the Ontology of Placebos” Andrew Howat (Fullerton University) 11.00-11.30 Coffee break , foyer Aula Magna “The Pragmatist Concept of Truth” Ivo Ibri (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo) Beyond Deliberation: Normativity, Civic Virtues, Recognition and Faiths “Choices, Dogmatisms and Bets. Justifying Peirce’s Realism” Roberto Frega (EHESS) Daniel Herbert (University of Sheffield) “New Prospects for Normative Theory between Pragmatism and Critical Theory” “Peirce’s Pragmatist Alternative to Transcendental Philosophy” Carlos Mougán (Universidad de Cádiz) Chair: Giovanni Maddalena “Civic Dispositions in the Deliberative Theories of Democracy” Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor Torjus Midtgarden (University of Bergen) “Deweyan Democracy: Participation under Modern Conditions” BREAK Chair: Margareta Bertilsson Aula Verra, ground floor 14.30-18.00

Agency, Normativity and Practices 16.00-16.30 Coffee break foyer Aula Magna David Hildebrand (University of Colorado Denver) On Un/Certainty. Religion in a Pragmatist Perspective “Experience or Language? Choosing Pragmatism's Central Motive” Gesche Linde (Goethe-University Frankfurt) Massimo Dell’Utri (Università di Sassari) “Certainty in Peirce, Or How to Read the Tenth Trichotomy” “Metaphysical Activism: a Wager with Rorty” Ana Honnacker (Technical University Darmstadt) Giovanni Tuzet (Università Bocconi) “On Trust and Open Windows: a Jamesian account of Philosophy of Religion” “Epistemic and Practical Concerns: When You Can't Meet Both” Annette Pitschmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt) Joseph Margolis (Temple University) “Between Habit and Imagination: Religious Faith in the Perspective of Dewey’s Theory “Beyond Brandom's Pragmatism” of Human Conduct” Rossella Fabbrichesi (Università di Milano) Thomas Schmidt (Goethe-University Frankfurt) “Pragmatism and Semiotics: The Third Way” “Undertaking Commitment without Claiming Entitlement. Robert Brandom on Chair: Sami Pihlström Reliability, Certainty, and Faith” Sala Conferenze, ground floor Chair: Ramon del Castillo Sala Conferenze, ground floor Situating Pragmatist Aesthetics

Roberta Dreon The Pragmatist Maxim, Doubt and Practice “How to Do Different Things with Words” Stéphane Madelrieux (University of Lyon) Krystyna Wilkoszewska (Jagiellonian University) “Action as Philosophic Method” “Dewey’s Aesthetic Experience in the Nature-Culture Continuum” Olivier Tinland (Université Paul Valery) Heidi Salaverrìa (Hamburg) “Skepticism, Irony and Cultural Politics in Rorty's Philosophy” “Productive Failures: Pragmatist Remarks on the Aesthetic Relation between Iterations Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Doubts” “Overcoming Skepticism. Doubt, Experience, and Practice, from Emerson to Dewey” Chair: Maura Striano Mathias Girel (Ecole Normale Supérieure) Sala Professori, I floor 3 “The Pragmatist Maxim, Practical Bearings and Conduct in Peirce” Didier Torny (INRA, Ivry-sur-Seine) Chair: Bjørn Ramberg “Radical Empiricism in Practice: Some Ways to Perform Pragmatic Sociology” Aula Verra, ground floor Chair: Roberto Frega Sala Professori, I floor Values and Communication Katariina Holma & Tiina Kontinen (University of Helsinki) Is There a Way for Pragmatist Metaphysics? “The Tough Process of Formulating Shared Solutions: Dewey, Gramsci, and the Method Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) of Democracy” “The Metaphysical Relevance of Peirce's Dispositional Realism” Henrik Rydenfelt (University of Helsinki) Fernando Zalamea (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) “Three Notions of Communicative Objectivity” “Horotics and the Metaphysics of Peirce's Existential Graphs” Aki P. Lehtinen (University of Helsinki) Giovanni Maddalena (Università del Molise) “Objectivity in Action: Journalism as an Epistemic Practice” “Are Antifoundationalism and naturalism really pragmatist characteristics?” Mats Bergman (University of Helsinki) Jaime Nubiola (Universidad de Navarra) “Presuppositions of Communicative Pragmatism” “What a Scientific Metaphysics Really Is (according to C. S. Peirce)” Chair: Giancarlo Marchetti Chair: Rosa M. Calcaterra Sala Professori, I floor Aula Verra, ground floor

The Future of the Social Sciences Ethics and Education Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon) Anna Maria Nieddu (University of Cagliari) Margareta Bertilsson (University of Copenhagen) “Pragmatism and Transcendentalism: A Disputed Inheritance” Brendan Hogan (New York University) Enricomaria Corbi, (University of Naples, Suor Orsola Benincasa) Patrick Baert (Cambridge University) “Values in Deweys's Pragmatism” Chair: Jonathan Knowles Maura Striano (University of Naples Federico II) Sala riunioni del Dipartimento di Filosofia, II floor “Philosophy and Education” Franco Cambi (University of Florence) SOCIAL DINNER foyer Aula Magna “Pragmatism in Florence, Italy” Chair: David Hildebrand Friday, 21 September Sala Conferenze, ground floor

9.30-13.00 Invited Panel: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Kenneth Stikkers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) 11.00-11.30 Coffee break foyer Aula Magna “Classical American Philosophy and the Crisis of Western Science” Jacquelyn Kegley (California State University, Bakersfield) Pragmatism and Social Sciences “Josiah Royce as a Pragmatist” Alexandra Bidet (Università di Trieste) Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University) “From the Renewal of Pragmatism to Today’s Work Dramas” “Jane Addams: Developing a Social Self” Antoine Hennion (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris) Larry A. Hickman (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) “Attachments. A Pragmatist View of What Holds Us Together” “John Dewey's Legacy for the 21st Century” Luigi Pellizzoni (CNRS, Paris) Chair: Mats Bergman “The Neoliberal Challenge to Practice Oriented Social Science” Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor 4