Women in Pragmatism: Past, Present and Future

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Growth of Feminist Pragmatism: Opening Channels for Cooperative Intelligence

   • Marilyn Fischer, Barbara J. Lowe

   Pages 1-10

3. Past: The Recovery of the Classics

   1. Front Matter

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   2. On Writing Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996) and Its Reception

      • Charlene Haddock Seigfried

      Pages 13-25

   3. Toward a Pragmatist and Feminist Theory of Oppression: Thoughts on Class, Gender, and Race

      • Núria Sara Miras Boronat

      Pages 27-39

   4. On Sense, Meaning, and Responsibility. Victoria Welby’s Significs

      • Susan Petrilli

      Pages 41-54

   5. Feminist Pragmatist Salvaging of Victoria Welby’s Theory of ‘Ident’

      • Zoe Hurley

      Pages 55-66

   6. Unconventional Legacy in American Psychology of Self: William James and Mary Whiton Calkins

      • Michela Bella

      Pages 67-81

   7. Christine Ladd and the Form of Syllogisms

      • Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe

      Pages 83-94

4. Present: Contributions to Current Pragmatist Debates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Where Are Ethical Properties? Predication, Location, and Category Mistake

      • Llanos Navarro

      Pages 97-109

   3. Reason, Truth, and Counterexample

      • A. C. Spivey

      Pages 111-121

   4. Pragmatism and Scientific Perspectivism

      • Sarah A. Wellan

      Pages 123-134

   5. From Individuality to Personhood in Dewey’s Later Works

      • Teresa Roversi

      Pages 135-145

   6. Foundations of Philosophy for Children, Reasonableness, and the Education of Thinking

      • Dina Mendonça

      Pages 147-158

   7. The Educational Value of “Mental Non-resistance” and “Understanding” in Fostering Intellectual and Social Life. A Lesson from Jane Addams

      • Maura Striano

      Pages 159-170

5. From the Past to the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Challenges

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Bringing the Origins of Playgrounds into the Current Educational Debate: Jane Addams and the Kitchens of Socializing Democracy

      • Laura Camas Garrido

      Pages 173-186

   3. Maxine Greene: Teaching Philosophy in Aesthetic Environments

      • Àger Pérez Casanovas

      Pages 187-198

   4. Instigators of Experimental Artwork: Resonances of Jane Addams in Arts Education

      • Ann Warde

      Pages 199-212

This book offers a selection of the papers of the Women in Pragmatism International Conference held at the University of Barcelona in January 2020. The conference gathered women and non-binary scholars from twelve different countries. This was the first pragmatist conference organized entirely by women and non-binary persons. It has initiated a stable network of mentoring and support analogous to other women philosophers’ organizations. The book provides paths to reconstruct the roots of pragmatism, integrating the works of women pragmatists of the past and linking them to the current developments of feminist and pragmatist topics. Scholars of different countries, status, and backgrounds serve as a powerful example of the trend toward interdisciplinary cooperation and versatility we might expect for the future of pragmatism. The book is of interest for scholars interested in both pragmatism and feminism, from various perspectives ranging from psychology to semiotics, logic, and sociology, wishing to expand their horizons and understand their relevant interactions.

 

• Women in pragmatism
• THE RECOVERY OF THE CLASSICS
• Feminist pragmatism
• Mary Whiton Calkins
• Christine Ladd
• Victoria Welby Significs
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Caroline Bartlett Crane
• Jane Addams
• Minding the Social Fabric
• Pragrammatology
• mental non resistance

• Facultat de Filosofia, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Núria Sara Miras Boronat

• Dpt of Humanities, Social Sciences & Edu, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

  Michela Bella

Núria Sara Miras Boronat is Associate Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 2009 she obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona with a thesis on Wittgenstein and Gadamer: Language, Praxis, and Reason. She has been Visiting Scholar at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at the University of Paderborn (2021-2022), Visiting Lecturer at the University of Parma (2020), Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Associate Instructor at the Universität Leipzig (2009–13), Guest Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2003–7) and Guest Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, 2000). She has written essays on pluralism, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, phenomenology, American pragmatism, philosophy of film and feminism.

 

Michela Bella is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Molise, and Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University College London. In 2015, she received her binationally supervised PhD in philosophy from the University of Roma Tre and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She has been Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universities of Nantes and LeMans (2018/2019). She is the author of Ontology After Philosophical Psychology. The Continuity of Consciousness in William James’s Philosophy of Mind (Lexington 2019). She published articles and chapters on American pragmatism and the philosophy of mind