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Book Series for American Philosophy:
Fordham University Press has a series titled American Philosophy, edited by Jude Jones and Douglas Anderson.
Indiana University Press has a book series for American Philosophy, edited by John Stuhr.
Penn State University Press offers the series Studies in American and European Philosophy, General Editors Charles Scott and John Stuhr.
Rodopi publishes Studies in Pragmatism and Values, a special series of the Value Inquiry Book Series, edited by Harvey Cormier.
Arisbe Books publishes Peirce scholarship. Contact Kenneth Ketner.
More publishers that offer titles in American philosophy include:
Continuum Books publishes many titles in American Philosophy
Journals that publish articles about pragmatism and American philosophy include:
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
Streams of William James: A Publication of the William James Society
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
American Journal of Theology and Philosophy
Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia
International Philosophical Quarterly
The American Journal of Semiotics
Education and Culture: The Journal of the John Dewey Society
Insights: Newsletter of the John Dewey Society
Studies in Philosophy and Education
Philosophy of Education Yearbook
Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education
Calls for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pragmatism & Democracy, special issue of Etica & Politica, 2, 2010. Guest editors: Roberto Frega, Fabrizio Trifirò
Since the early Eighties the pragmatist philosophical tradition has been enjoying renewed interest throughout the field of humanities. Our focus in this issue of Ethics & Politics is on pragmatism as a tradition within contemporary political philosophy capable of offering original and proficuous insights into the theory and practice of democracy. From its inception in the works of its founding fathers up until contemporary reappraisals and reelaborations of traditional pragmatist themes and approaches, the pragmatist tradition has defied every attempt at defining its specific identity. Throughout its historical development it has given voice to a great variety of conflicting positions and perspectives on central issues of democratic theory and practice ranging from the epistemic to the ethical nature of democratic decision-making procedures, from 'thin'-procedural to 'thick'-substantial views of the normative scope and content of democracy, and from liberal to communitarian conceptions of democratic life and society. Moreover, while some pragmatists are primarily engaged in the theoretical and foundational project of defining and justifying democratic principles and institutions, others see pragmatism primary contribution to politics as the critical and educational effort of shaping and transforming actual democratic practice and culture.
Devoting an issue to "Pragmatism & Democracy", the philosophical journal Ethics & Politics would like to offer an overview of contemporary reflections on democracy that can be regarded as falling within the pragmatist tradition with the double intent of both exploring the richness and variety of this tradition whilst at the same time raising the question of its specificity and identity.
To this aim, we invite contributions addressing one or more of the following themes:
1. The contemporary relevance of classical American pragmatism for democratic theory and practice
2. Contemporary pragmatist contributions to the theorization of democracy and political philosophy more generally
3. Pragmatist positions within and beyond the above mentioned dualisms: thick v. thin, procedural v. substantial, liberal v. communitarian, epistemic v. ethical, justificatory v. transformational approaches to democratic politics
4. The place and role pragmatism accords to philosophy within politics and society
5. Pragmatism and citizenship education
Contributions should be written either in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German and should not exceed 10,000 words. Abstracts of 400 words should be sent by email to the guest editors by April 30th 2009. Acceptance of papers will be communicated by June 31st 2009. Accepted papers should be submitted in full by April 30th 2010. For information and abstract submissions please contact: Roberto Frega: roberto.frega@unibo.it or Fabrizio Trifirò: ftrifiro@hotmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pragmatist epistemologies
Discipline Filosofiche – a philosophical journal founded by Enzo Melandri, now directed by Stefano Besoli, published by Quodlibet/Macerata (www.filosofia.unibo.it/discfil/Welcome.htm) and based at the University of Bologna, Italy– will host a special number (2009, XIX, n. 2) devoted to the topic of the pragmatist epistemologies. It will be edited by Roberto Frega and Roberto Brigati. Below you will find a description both of the project and of the conditions for participation.
Since the seminal work of classical pragmatists Peirce, James and Dewey, pragmatist philosophy has offered fundamental contributions to the development of contemporary philosophy. In the last decades, the traditional project of a pragmatist understanding of knowledge and thinking has been renewed and is currently spreading over many different areas of philosophical research. Since its inception, this project has been shaped by a naturalistic understanding of epistemology, as both the Peircean theory of belief fixation and the Deweyan theory of inquiry clearly show. In this volume we intend to assess the meaning of this epistemological project and its vitality in contemporary philosophy. The recent renewal of interest for pragmatist philosophies is part of a broader shift of the philosophical focus towards the domain of practice. In many fields of inquiry, pragmatism has encouraged the development of styles of thought committed to the experimental attitude and to empirical and (often) phenomenological ways of inquiry. In recent decades, an increasing number of publications have opened the road to pragmatist approaches to epistemology, science, technology, bioethics, law, environmental ethics, democratic theory, social and cultural studies, feminist thinking, etc. Through this enormous amount of research, a new epistemological framework is taking shape. In all of these fields the adoption of a pragmatist standpoint is acknowledged to be the methodological prerequisite in order to look afresh to human, social and natural phenomena. This pragmatist standpoint, though never fully conceptualized as a single and homogeneous conceptual framework, is characterized by a general positive attitude towards the dimension of practice, by the refusal of traditional dualisms, by the preference for empirical over idealistic or rationalistic approaches, by an understanding of knowledge and thinking as forms of activity based on the model of experimental inquiry.
These traits give shape to a rather coherent pragmatist epistemology, that more detailed and field-specific research has recently tried to put at work into vast and diverse fields of inquiry, from science and technology studies to law, morality and politics, to bioethics and environmentalism. Unfortunately, more often than not this connection has remained vague and unspecified, and the epistemological kernel behind these researches has received only an implicit acknowledgment.
In this special number of Discipline Filosofiche, devoted to the pragmatist epistemologies, we would like therefore to put into focus the main categories of a pragmatist epistemology. This should be done both through the historical reconstruction of existing pragmatist philosophies and through the challenge of pragmatist ideas through competing contemporary epistemologies.
Abstract of about 400 words should be submitted before end November 2008. Acceptance of papers will be communicated before 31stth December 2008. Final papers are due before end June 2009. Maximum length for papers is 7,000 words. Papers can be written in English, French, German and Spanish. All papers will be translated into Italian. Abstracts and papers should be sent to the following address: roberto.frega@unibo.it