Roberta Dreon
Biographic Data
| ID | 461233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Dreon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Dreon |
| SIGNATURE | DREON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5531-8970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enlanguaged emotions
In this paper, we propose applying the view of human experience as enlanguaged to the field of emotions and present the hypothesis of “enlanguaged emotions” as a challenging research hypothesis. To support this proposal, we explore the affinity between American Pragmatism and modern research on the relationship between, firstly, language and experience, particularly the so-called Grounded Language Approach, and secondly, language and emotions, es…
Enlanguaged experience. Pragmatist contributions to the continuity between experience and language
In this paper, I present the idea of “enlanguaged experience” as a radicalization of the Pragmatists’ approach to the continuity between language and experience in the human world as a concept that can provide a significant contribution to the current debate within Enactivism. The first part of the paper explores some new conceptual tools recently developed by enactivist scholarship, namely linguistic bodies, enlanguaged affordances, and languagi…
A Plea for a Pragmatist Anthropology
In this paper, I defend the claim that a philosophical anthropology inspired by the Classical Pragmatists, while being explicitly naturalistic, can avoid biological reductionism and environmental determinism, as well as dogmatic forms of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism, insofar as it offers a picture of human nature as historical and contingent, dynamically constituted through interactions with a natural, naturally social, and encultura…
Human Landscapes
Emozioni naturalmente culturali. Un recupero dell’eredità pragmatista
This article aims to show how the ideas of pragmatists can dialogue with some approaches in the domain of sociology of emotions, integrating some possible shortcomings on the theoretical level. Differently from Arlie Hochschild’s dramaturgical approach and Randal Collins’ ritual approach to emotions, the pragmatists’ non-reductionist naturalism, which advocates the thesis of the continuity between organic and social, nature and culture, offers a …
Joseph Margolis Obituary
Joseph Margolis has died on Monday, 2021 June 8th. He has been a member of the scientific board of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy since the very beginning. The board as a whole joins his family and friends in mourning his death. Joe gave a unique contribution to the Pragmatist community: his intellectual lucidity, his capacity to overcome traditions and disciplinary divisions, his independence of judgment, and his brav…
Introduction to Pragmatist Legacies in Aesthetics
This paper aims to map and highlight the diverse heritage of Pragmatism in aesthetics. It argues that pragmatist aesthetics represents an interesting third way of doing aesthetics beyond the analytic philosophy of art and continental aesthetics. It offers a first, provisional sketch of existing research trends in pragmatist aesthetics, such as somaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, everyday aesthetics, and social aesthetics. Furthermore, it ide…
Pragmatist Aesthetics
Roberta Dreon - Richard Shusterman is one of the leading figures in the current field of pragmatist aesthetics and he has undoubtedly played a pivotal role in recovering a pragmatist approach to aesthetics. His book Pragmatist Aesthetics was simultaneously published in France under the title L’Art à l’état vif. La pensée pragmatiste et l’esthétique populaire in 1992, paving the way for a long awaited French translation of Dewey’s Art as Experienc…
Framing cognition
James on the stream of language
Este artigo sustenta uma leitura do capítulo “Stream of Thought” em The Principles of Psichology segundo o qual William James não formulou uma ideia de significados linguísticos como sentimentos privados que ocorrem dentro da mente do falante, ao contrário, criticava o hábito de, basicamente, considerar a linguagem como uma associação de nomes, devido às consequências ilusórias dessa suposição ao nosso entendimento do pensamento como resultante, …
Désaturer et naturaliser l’esprit. Deux usages du pragmatisme
Le livre de Pierre Steiner, Dsaturer l'esprit. Usages du pragmatisme, publi l'anne dernire par la maison d'dition Questions Thoriques, se dmarque par la richesse de ses discussions des auteurs et des thmes au coeur du dbat philosophique contemporain. Les analyses, jamais superficielles ni surcharges, sont toujours pertinentes et approfondies. Les quatre philosophes qui font l'objet des discussions les plus intenses constituent diffrents modles de…
Understanding rules as habits. Developing a pragmatist anthropological approach
By taking Wittgenstein's well-known reflections on following a rule as its starting point, the paper suggests that what the Austrian philosopher meant by rule could better be understood in terms of habits, as these have been theorized by the classical pragmatists – and by John Dewey in particular. This kind of interpretation reinforces both the rejection of the intellectualistic approach to the issue of following rules, and the emphasis on their …
Introduction to Pragmatism and Psychologism
Testo introduttivo delle curatrici al numero monografico dello European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy dedicato al tema "Pragmatism and Psychologism". Sebbene l'introduzione sia stata elaborata insieme dalle due autrici, il primo paragrafo è attribuibile a Rosa Maria Calcaterra, mentre il secondo paragrafo deve essere attribuito a Roberta Dreon
Dewey on Language
This paper reconstructs the merits of John Dewey’s conception of language by viewing it within the context of communication as the act of making something in common, as social and instrumental action. It shows that on the one hand this approach allows us to avoid the problems of the linguistic turn: the self-entanglement of language, the overemphasizing of language at the expense of the plurality of our world experiences, and the unquestioned, bu…
Was Art as Experience Socially Effective
The purpose of this paper is to consider Dewey’s influence on American artistic culture between the nineteen-twenties and the nineteen-fifties by focusing on the social and political implications of his approach to art in terms of experience. This entails recapturing, in a concise form, the impact of Dewey’s thought on the development of the Federal Art Project and on Abstract Expressionism. On the basis of the pragmatist assumption that the soun…
Pragmatist Aesthetics, Twenty Years Later
Pragmatist Aesthetics was published in 1992, by now twenty years ago. Through his book Richard Shusterman was able to revitalize a debate in the aesthetic field, which tended to stagnate. But its claims, implications and consequences went beyond the narrow limits of aesthetics, understood as philosophy of art according to a traditional modern approach. His reinterpretation of pragmatist aesthetics, expressly derived from Dewey’s work, was able to…
Human Landscapes
Dewey on Language
This paper reconstructs the merits of John Dewey’s conception of language by viewing it within the context of communication as the act of making something in common, as social and instrumental action. It shows that on the one hand this approach allows us to avoid the problems of the linguistic turn: the self-entanglement of language, the overemphasizing of language at the expense of the plurality of our world experiences, and the unquestioned, bu…
Introduction to Pragmatism and Psychologism
Testo introduttivo delle curatrici al numero monografico dello European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy dedicato al tema "Pragmatism and Psychologism". Sebbene l'introduzione sia stata elaborata insieme dalle due autrici, il primo paragrafo è attribuibile a Rosa Maria Calcaterra, mentre il secondo paragrafo deve essere attribuito a Roberta Dreon
Pragmatist Aesthetics, Twenty Years Later
Pragmatist Aesthetics was published in 1992, by now twenty years ago. Through his book Richard Shusterman was able to revitalize a debate in the aesthetic field, which tended to stagnate. But its claims, implications and consequences went beyond the narrow limits of aesthetics, understood as philosophy of art according to a traditional modern approach. His reinterpretation of pragmatist aesthetics, expressly derived from Dewey’s work, was able to…
Was Art as Experience Socially Effective
The purpose of this paper is to consider Dewey’s influence on American artistic culture between the nineteen-twenties and the nineteen-fifties by focusing on the social and political implications of his approach to art in terms of experience. This entails recapturing, in a concise form, the impact of Dewey’s thought on the development of the Federal Art Project and on Abstract Expressionism. On the basis of the pragmatist assumption that the soun…
Dewey on Language
This paper reconstructs the merits of John Dewey’s conception of language by viewing it within the context of communication as the act of making something in common, as social and instrumental action. It shows that on the one hand this approach allows us to avoid the problems of the linguistic turn: the self-entanglement of language, the overemphasizing of language at the expense of the plurality of our world experiences, and the unquestioned, bu…
Understanding rules as habits. Developing a pragmatist anthropological approach
By taking Wittgenstein's well-known reflections on following a rule as its starting point, the paper suggests that what the Austrian philosopher meant by rule could better be understood in terms of habits, as these have been theorized by the classical pragmatists – and by John Dewey in particular. This kind of interpretation reinforces both the rejection of the intellectualistic approach to the issue of following rules, and the emphasis on their …
Introduction to Pragmatism and Psychologism
Testo introduttivo delle curatrici al numero monografico dello European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy dedicato al tema "Pragmatism and Psychologism". Sebbene l'introduzione sia stata elaborata insieme dalle due autrici, il primo paragrafo è attribuibile a Rosa Maria Calcaterra, mentre il secondo paragrafo deve essere attribuito a Roberta Dreon
James on the stream of language
Este artigo sustenta uma leitura do capítulo “Stream of Thought” em The Principles of Psichology segundo o qual William James não formulou uma ideia de significados linguísticos como sentimentos privados que ocorrem dentro da mente do falante, ao contrário, criticava o hábito de, basicamente, considerar a linguagem como uma associação de nomes, devido às consequências ilusórias dessa suposição ao nosso entendimento do pensamento como resultante, …
Désaturer et naturaliser l’esprit. Deux usages du pragmatisme
Le livre de Pierre Steiner, Dsaturer l'esprit. Usages du pragmatisme, publi l'anne dernire par la maison d'dition Questions Thoriques, se dmarque par la richesse de ses discussions des auteurs et des thmes au coeur du dbat philosophique contemporain. Les analyses, jamais superficielles ni surcharges, sont toujours pertinentes et approfondies. Les quatre philosophes qui font l'objet des discussions les plus intenses constituent diffrents modles de…
Emozioni naturalmente culturali. Un recupero dell’eredità pragmatista
This article aims to show how the ideas of pragmatists can dialogue with some approaches in the domain of sociology of emotions, integrating some possible shortcomings on the theoretical level. Differently from Arlie Hochschild’s dramaturgical approach and Randal Collins’ ritual approach to emotions, the pragmatists’ non-reductionist naturalism, which advocates the thesis of the continuity between organic and social, nature and culture, offers a …
Joseph Margolis Obituary
Joseph Margolis has died on Monday, 2021 June 8th. He has been a member of the scientific board of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy since the very beginning. The board as a whole joins his family and friends in mourning his death. Joe gave a unique contribution to the Pragmatist community: his intellectual lucidity, his capacity to overcome traditions and disciplinary divisions, his independence of judgment, and his brav…
Introduction to Pragmatist Legacies in Aesthetics
This paper aims to map and highlight the diverse heritage of Pragmatism in aesthetics. It argues that pragmatist aesthetics represents an interesting third way of doing aesthetics beyond the analytic philosophy of art and continental aesthetics. It offers a first, provisional sketch of existing research trends in pragmatist aesthetics, such as somaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, everyday aesthetics, and social aesthetics. Furthermore, it ide…
Pragmatist Aesthetics
Roberta Dreon - Richard Shusterman is one of the leading figures in the current field of pragmatist aesthetics and he has undoubtedly played a pivotal role in recovering a pragmatist approach to aesthetics. His book Pragmatist Aesthetics was simultaneously published in France under the title L’Art à l’état vif. La pensée pragmatiste et l’esthétique populaire in 1992, paving the way for a long awaited French translation of Dewey’s Art as Experienc…
Framing cognition
Human Landscapes
A Plea for a Pragmatist Anthropology
In this paper, I defend the claim that a philosophical anthropology inspired by the Classical Pragmatists, while being explicitly naturalistic, can avoid biological reductionism and environmental determinism, as well as dogmatic forms of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism, insofar as it offers a picture of human nature as historical and contingent, dynamically constituted through interactions with a natural, naturally social, and encultura…
Enlanguaged experience. Pragmatist contributions to the continuity between experience and language
In this paper, I present the idea of “enlanguaged experience” as a radicalization of the Pragmatists’ approach to the continuity between language and experience in the human world as a concept that can provide a significant contribution to the current debate within Enactivism. The first part of the paper explores some new conceptual tools recently developed by enactivist scholarship, namely linguistic bodies, enlanguaged affordances, and languagi…
Enlanguaged emotions
In this paper, we propose applying the view of human experience as enlanguaged to the field of emotions and present the hypothesis of “enlanguaged emotions” as a challenging research hypothesis. To support this proposal, we explore the affinity between American Pragmatism and modern research on the relationship between, firstly, language and experience, particularly the so-called Grounded Language Approach, and secondly, language and emotions, es…
Epistemology (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Pragmatism (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (4 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (3 works) · Humanities (3 works)