First European Conference on Pragmatism and American Philosophy

The Italian Association Pragma and the Nordic Pragmatist Network are pleased to announce the first European Conference on Pragmatism and American Philosophy.

Wednesday, 19 September 

9.30-13.00 

Pragmatism in the Context of Modern Philosophy (Aula Verra, ground floor) 

• Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki) 
• Russell B. Goodman (University of New Mexico) 
• Chris Skowronski (University of Opole) 
• Emil Visnovsky (University of Bratislava) 

Art, Experience, and Practices of Art (Sala Professori, II floor) 

• Mikhail Stepanov (St. Petersburg State University) 
• John Ryder (Khazar University) 
• Larry Hickman (Southern Illinois University) 
• Lyubov Bugaeva (St. Petersburg State University) 

Inquiries within the Logical Space of Reasons (Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor) 

• Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University) 
• Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin) 
• Kenneth Westphal (University of East Anglia) 
• James O'Shea (University College Dublin) 

Is There a Way for Pragmatist Metaphysics? (Sala Conferenze, ground floor) 

• Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) 
• Fernando Zalamea (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) 
• Giovanni Maddalena (Università del Molise) 
• Jaime Nubiola (Universidad de Navarra) 

LUNCH 

14.30-18.00 

Call for Papers (Aula Verra, ground floor) 

• Michael Festl (University of St. Gallen) 
• Antje Gimmler (Aalborg University) 
• Lenart Skof (University of Primorska/Università del Litorale) 
• Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University) 
• Joseph Urbas (Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux III) 

Call for Papers (Sala Professori, II floor) 

• Dirk-Martin Grube (University of Utrecht) 
• Miklos Nyiro (University of Miskolc) 
• Kathleen Wallace (Hofstra University) 
• Olivier Sartenaer (Université catholique de Louvain) 
• David Zapero (Université Paris 1 ) 

Nordic Call for Papers (Sala Conferenze, ground floor ) 

• Erkki Kilpinen (University of Helsinki) 
• Lauri Järvilehto (Aalto University) 
• Martin Thellefsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark) 
• Heikki A. Kovalainen (University of Tampere) 

Young European Pragmatists: Knowledge (Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, 

ground floor) 

• Maria Luisi (Università di Roma Tre) 
• Roman Madzia (Brno University) 
• Gabriele Gava (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) 
• Maria Regina Brioschi (Università di Milano) 

Young European Pragmatists: Conduct (Sala riunioni del Dipartimento di Filosofia, II floor) 

• Tullio Viola (Humboldt Universität) 
• Sarin Marchetti (University College Dublin) 
• Emma Sutton (University College London) 
• Andrea Parravicini (Università di Milano) 

18.00-19.00 

Joint session (Aula Magna) 

• Rosa M. Calcaterra (Università di Roma Tre) 
• Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki) 

Thursday, 20 September 

9.30-13.00 

Normativity, Civic Virtues, Recognition and Faiths (Aula Verra, ground floor) 

• Roberto Frega (EHESS) 
• Carlos Mougán (Universidad de Cádiz) 
• Torjus Midgarten (University of Bergen) 
• Ramón del Castillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain) 

Language, Signs, and Dialogue (Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor) 

• Augusto Ponzio (Università di Bari) 
• Michele Marsonet (Università di Genova) 
• Susan Petrilli (Università di Bari) 
• Rossella Fabbrichesi (Università di Milano) 

Agency, Normativity, and Practices (Sala Conferenze, ground floor) 

• David Hildebrand (University of Colorado Denver) 
• Massimo Dell’Utri (Università di Sassari) 
• Giovanni Tuzet (Università Bocconi) 
• Joseph Margolis (Temple University) 

Situating Pragmatist Aesthetics (Sala Professori, II floor) 

• Roberta Dreon (Università di Venezia) 
• Krystyna Wilkoszewska (Jagiellonian University) 
• Heidi Salaverrìa 
• Wojciech Malecki (University of Wrozlaw) 

LUNCH 

14.30-18.00 

On Un/Certainty. Religion in a Pragmatist Perspective (Sala Conferenze, ground floor) 

• Gesche Linde (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) 
• Ana Honnacker (Technical University Darmstadt) 
• Annette Pitschmann (Goethe-UniversitätFrankfurt) 
• Thomas Schmidt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) 

The Pragmatist Maxim, Doubt and Practice (Aula Verra, ground floor) 

• Stéphane Madelrieux (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) 
• Olivier Tinland (Université Paul Valery) 
• Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) 
• Mathias Girel (Ecole Normale Supérieure) 

Values and Communication (Sala Professori, II floor) 

• Katariina Holma & Tiina Kontinen (University of Helsinki) 
• Henrik Rydenfelt (University of Helsinki) 
• Aki P. Lehtinen (University of Helsinki) 
• Mats Bergman (University of Helsinki) 

The Future of the Social Sciences (Sala riunioni del Dipartimento di Filosofia, II floor) 

• Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon) 
• Margareta Bertilsson (University of Copenhagen) 
• Brendan Hogan (New York University) 
• Patrick Baert (Cambridge University) 

C.S. Peirce Society invited session (Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor) 

• Marco Annoni (Università Bicocca) 
• Andrew Howat (Fullerton University) 
• Ivo Ibri (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo) 
• Daniel Herbert (University of Sheffield) 

Friday, 21 September 

9.30-13.00 

Pragmatism and Social Sciences (Sala Professori, II floor) 

• Antoine Hennion (Institut des Sciences et Technologie, Paris) 
• Cédric Terzi (EHESS) 
• Luigi Pellizzoni (University of Trieste) 
• Daniel Cefai (EHESS) 

Naturalism, Language and Agency (Aula Verra, ground floor) 

• Bjorn Ramberg (University of Oslo) 
• Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Tampere) 
• Eirik Julius Risberg (University of Oslo) 
• Jonathan Knowles (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 

Ethics and Education (Sala Conferenze, ground floor) 

• Anna Maria Nieddu (University of Cagliari) 
• Enricomaria Corbi,  (University of Naples, Suor Orsola Benincasa) 
• Maura Striano (University of Naples Federico II) 
• Franco Cambi (University of Florence) 

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy invited session (Sala Dipartimento 

• Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor) 
• Kenneth Stikkers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) 
• Jacquelyn Kegley (California State University, Bakersfield) 
• Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University) 

For more information on the conference, please contact one of the organisers, Roberto Frega ([email protected]), Giovanni Maddalena ([email protected]), Henryk Rydenfeld ([email protected]).

More info:

http://www.associazionepragma.com/?page_id=111&lang=en