The Italian Pragmatists were a group of philosophers in the early 20th century, most notably including Giovanni Vailati, Mario Calderoni, Giovanni Papini and Giuseppe Prezzolini. They gathered around the journal Leonardo, published in Florence. The Italian philosophers were in contact with the American Pragmatists, especially with C.S.V. Peirce and W. James, and developed many original and provocative ideas that made the Italian Pragmatists allies and enemies.
Critics have often stressed the differences between their versions of Pragmatism. This volume emphasizes what they shared, and their value for philosophy and culture.
Giovanni Tuzet, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Philosophy of Law at Bocconi University, Italy. He has published several monographs and many articles on legal and philosophical Pragmatism.
Introduction: The Sign of the Four
âGiovanni Maddalena and Giovanni Tuzet
1Pragmatism in Florence: the Magicians and the Logicians
âCornelis De Waal
2Giovanni Vailati and the Art of Reasoning
âGiovanni Maddalena
3Algebraic Grammar, Geometric Grammar: Vailati and Peirce
âSusanna Marietti
4Do Normative Predictions Make Sense?: pragmatism and Ethics in Calderoni
âGiovanni Tuzet
5Two Faces of Italian Pragmatism: the Prezzolini-Calderoni Debate, 1904â1905
âE. Paul Colella
6âTell Your Friend Giulianoâ¦â: Jamesian Enthusiasms and Peircean Reservations
âVincent Colapietro
7Giuseppe Prezzoliniâs Pragmatic Interlude: a Reply to Colapietro
âE. Paul Colella
8Pain, Beliefs, Action: Papini and the Debate between Psychology and Philosophy in Italy at the Beginning of the 20th Century
âMaria Teresa Russo
9Toward a âCritique of Hypothetical Reasonâ: Erminio Juvalta and the Italian Pragmatists
âAnna Maria Nieddu
10Making Truth and Reality: magic Pragmatism as a Guide for Action
âFrancesca Bordogna Index
All interested in contemporary philosophy, in the history of ideas and culture, and of pragmatism in particular.