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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PRAGMATISM AND ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY VIBS Volume 228 Robert Ginsberg Founding Editor Leonidas Donskis Executive Editor Associate Editors G. John M. Abbarno George Allan Gerhold K. Becker Raymond Angelo Belliotti Kenneth A. Bryson C. Stephen Byrum Robert A. Delfino Rem B. Edwards Malcolm D. Evans Roland Faber Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Francesc Forn i Argimon Daniel B. Gallagher William C. Gay Dane R. Gordon J. Everet Green Heta Aleksandra Gylling Matti Häyry Brian G. Henning Steven V. Hicks Richard T. Hull Michael Krausz Olli Loukola Mark Letteri Vincent L. Luizzi Adrianne McEvoy J.D. Mininger Peter A. Redpath Arleen L. F. Salles John R. Shook Eddy Souffrant Tuija Takala Emil Višňovský Anne Waters James R. Watson John R. Welch Thomas Woods a volume in Studies in Pragmatism and Values SPV Harvey Cormier , Editor NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PRAGMATISM AND ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY Edited by Rosa M. Calcaterra Amsterdam - New York, NY 2011 Cover Photo: www.dreamstime.com Cover Design: Studio Pollmann The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-3321-4 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2011 Printed in the Netherlands Studies in Pragmatism and Values SPV Other Titles in SPV John Shook. Pragmatism: An Annotated Bibliography, 1898-1940. 1998. VIBS 66 Phyllis Chiasson. Peirce’s Pragmatism: A Dialogue for Educators. 2001. VIBS 107 Paul C. Bube and Jeffrey L. Geller, eds. Conversations with Pragmatism: A Multi-Disciplinary Study. 2002. VIBS 129 Richard Rumana. Richard Rorty: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Literature. 2002. VIBS 130 Guy Debrock, ed. Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution. 2003. VIBS 137 John Ryder and Emil Višňovský, eds. Pragmatism and Values: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume One. 2004. VIBS 152 John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska, eds. Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Two. 2004. VIBS 156 Arthur Efron. Experiencing Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A Deweyan Account. 2005. VIBS 162 Leszek Koczanowicz and Beth J. Singer, eds. Frederic R. Kellogg and Łukasz Nysler, Assistant Eds. Democracy and the Post-Totalitarian Experience. 2005. VIBS 167 Sami Pihlström. Pragmatic Moral Realism: Pragmatic Moral Realism. 2005. VIBS 171 John Ryder and Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus, eds. Education for a Democratic Society: Central European Pragmatist Forum. Volume Three. 2007. VIBS 179 Michael Taylor, Helmut Schreier, and Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr. Pragmatism, Education, and Children: International Philosophical Perspectives. 2008. VIBS 192 Hugh P. McDonald. Creative Actualization: A Meliorist Theory of Values. 2011. VIBS 224 CONTENTS Foreword by Harvey Cormier ix Introduction by Rosa M. Calcaterra xi Acknowledgements xxi ONE Allowing Our Practices to Speak for Themselves: Wittgenstein, Peirce, and Their Intersecting Lineages Vincent Colapietro 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Trying to Understand Our Entanglement in Rules (Our Locus in Practice) 2 3. What’s the Use of Calling Wittgenstein a Pragmatist? 6 4. A Step Back to View the Larger Context 11 5. The Philosophical Recovery of the Everyday World/The Mundane Reorientation of Philosophical Investigation 12 6. Conclusion 15 TWO Beyond Scientism Mario De Caro 1. Introduction 2. Scientism, Anti-naturalism, and Pragmatism 3. The Features of Scientific Naturalism 4. The Scientistic Character of Scientific Naturalism 5. Some Criticisms of Scientific Naturalism 6. The Premises of Scientific Naturalism Again 21 21 22 24 27 28 30 The Entanglement of Ethics and Logic in Peirce’s Pragmatism Rossella Fabbrichesi 35 Indiana James Maurizio Ferraris 1. Are Popes Infallible? 2. Transatlantic Truth 3. Pacific Truth 45 45 46 49 THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN 4. The Automatic Sweetheart 5. The Sun and The Moon 53 55 Action and Representation in Peirce’s Pragmatism Nathan Houser 61 Semiotics and Epistemology: The Pragmatic Ground of Communication Ivo Assad Ibri 1. Introduction 2. A Realistic View of Semiotics 3. Semiotics and Pragmatism 4. Conclusion 71 71 71 75 79 Wittgenstein, Dewey, and Peirce on Ethics Giovanni Maddalena 83 EIGHT Different Pragmatist Reactions to Analytic Philosophy Michele Marsonet 101 NINE Pragmatism and Intention-in-Action John McDowell 119 Pragmatism as Anti-Representationalism? Eva Picardi 1. Introduction 2. Metaphors We Steer By 3. Inferentialism vs. Representationalism 4. “A sentence says just one thing.” 129 129 131 135 139 TEN About the Contributors 145 Index 149 EDITORIAL FOREWORD If we judge by recently published anthologies, this is the era of “new” figures in philosophy. There is a new Nietzsche, who is not just another late Romantic but who challenges the language and thought of onto-theology; a new Husserl, who is not merely a semantic theorist of intentionality and the life world but who also develops a doctrine of non-fictional, Nietzsche-proof, transcendental subjectivity; a new Wittgenstein, who makes not a simple journey from realism to anti-realism but a complex transit from one way of ruling out metaphysical nonsense to another; and, now, perhaps inevitably, there are the new pragmatists, who see truth not as a mere relative matter of whatever we in our culture happen to let each other say but as a connection between our thoughts or words and objective reality. New pragmatism is not to be confused with neopragmatism; in fact, the latter philosophy is the nemesis of the “new” pragmatists. The new pragmatism sets out specifically to challenge the evidently idealistic and relativistic view that “there is only the conversation.” The neopragmatist way of understanding truth, thinking, and reality seems to leave humanity tossing in a sea of arbitrariness, with no real grounds for real criticism of what anyone might actually do or say. The pragmatic revisionists try to restore the possibility of criticism by putting us back in touch with the world beyond thought and language. They set out to locate more objective understandings of truth in the work of the historical pragmatists, and they make their own new arguments in favor of attention to “how things are, anyway” and “getting things right.” Much if not quite all of the work in the present volume fits under the heading of “new” pragmatism. As these essays connect pragmatism with philosophical analysis and its history, they show that pragmatists and analytic thinkers alike have argued for the importance of using logic to deal with philosophical problems, tried to explain scientific method, and offered explanations the idea of the real. The pragmatists have emphasized action in connection with knowledge, and they have emphasized the role of values in our understanding of logical truth and scientific facts, but this has not been either a cause or an effect of Protagorean relativism. Instead, the pragmatists have challenged the idea, present at the birth of analytic philosophy, that facts and truth are real while values are merely emotional and relative. That tenet of logical positivism has fallen by the wayside as analytic philosophy has developed more sophisticated things to say about both science and morality, and, over the course of the last half of the twentieth century, some analytic thinkers have found pragmatism to be more of a complement and less of a competitor. x Editorial Foreword The work in this book will help thinkers in both pragmatic and analytic camps understand and constructively criticize both traditions, and it will help pave the way for future cooperation among thinkers in two of the most productive schools of contemporary philosophical thought. Harvey Cormier Editor, Studies in Pragmatism and Values