JoLMA
The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts open access | peer reviewed
Aims & Scope
The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts is an online, biannual, periodical journal, published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari Digital Publishing.The Journal is the expression of an active research group based at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University, in Venice (Italy). The same group of scholars previously founded a research centre called CLAVeS, which currently gathers the scientific activities (seminars, conferences, meetings, etc.) that its members hold in Venice. The research topics this Journal investigates stand between Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Art. Hence, the Journal is intended to offer a chance to develop a thorough and interdisciplinary research (in terms of both interrelations and exchanges within the international scientific community. Furthermore, the Journal is set to provide the opportunity to discuss several theoretical issues, which lie at the core of contemporary philosophical and scientific debate. No particular school or theoretical orientation as well as attitude is excluded a priori. Indeed, contributors are asked to hold an open perspective without any dogmatism, as well as due rigour of argumentation and thematic choices, in order to abide by the richness and variety of theoretical approaches and visions. The Journal is recognised as a scientific journal for areas 10 (Ancient, philological-literary and historical-artistic sciences) and 11 (Historical, philosophical, pedagogical and psychological sciences) by the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University System and Research.
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Latest published issue
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- Habits Between Sensibility and Action. Rethinking the Double Law of Habit
- Roberta Dreon, Marco Piazza
- Dec. 12, 2025
The current issue emerges from a collaborative research context on the philosophy of habits. It is part of a wider project supported by the Italian Ministry of University, entitled Habits (in Time) of Crisis. Conceptual Tools for Dealing with Disruptive Events (PRIN 2022), and is situated among the numerous scholarly activities carried out by the Interuniversity Centre for Habit Studies, known as PhilHabits. It is within this context that the idea of revisiting the so-called double law of habits first emerged. The idea of reconsidering this subject originally arose from a conversation between the authors of this preface and the editors of the current issue. The comparison of different viewpoints and theoretical frameworks revealed that such an exchange can generate crises – large or small – in our habitual ways of thinking, and that these crises can be potentially productive.
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- Habit, Choice, and Action
- Francesca Masi
- Dec. 11, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
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- Preface
- Roberta Dreon, Marco Piazza
- Dec. 10, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
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- The Law of Habits
- George Turnbull
- Dec. 10, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
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- Triadic Law of Habit
- Catherine Dromelet
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- Reiteration in Sensibility According to Aristotle
- Giulia Mingucci
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- Rethinking the Double Law of Habit with Maine de Biran
- Marco Piazza
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- “Bring Me an Apple!”
- Elena Valeri
- Dec. 10, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
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- A Note on George Turnbull and the Law of Habits
- Sofia Sandreschi de Robertis
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- Jean-Pierre Cometti: A Wittgensteinian Philosopher
- Luigi Perissinotto
- Sept. 1, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- A Life Between Art and Philosophy
- Elena Valeri
- Sept. 1, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- Experience, Language, and the Qualitative
- Roberta Dreon
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- Pragmatism and the Question of Language: Words and the Rest
- Jean-Pierre Cometti, Elena Valeri
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- Introduction
- Carlos Vara Sánchez
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- Language as (a Mode of) Experience
- Pierre Steiner
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- Rethinking the Simulation Theory
- Robert M. Gordon
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- Rethinking the Double Law of Habit: James’ Case
- Alice Morelli
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- Habit and Automatism
- Sofia Sandreschi de Robertis
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- Performance Art As a Dynamic Imaginative Niche
- Antonio Ianniello, David Habets
- June 13, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- Post-Cognitivism and the Indissoluble Bonding of Languaging, Embodiment, and Thinking
- Filippo Batisti, Marcos G. Vidal
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- Martyna Meyer, Edward Baggs
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- On the Ontology and Semantics of Absence
- Friederike Moltmann
- Forthcoming | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Perceptual Experiences of (Depicted) Absence
- Alberto Voltolini
- Dec. 12, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Sitting at the Kantian Table of Nothingness
- Marco Simionato
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- Metaphysical Grounding and Being’s Incompleteness
- J.M. Fritzman
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- Actual Properties of Fictional Objects
- Graham Priest
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- Scars of Resistance: Manolo Millares's Aesthetics of Negativity
- Anda Pleniceanu
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- Quoting Nothing
- Luigi Pavone
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- Introduction
- Filippo Costantini, Filippo Casati
- Dec. 11, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Error Theories of Absence Causation Are Not (Yet) Adequately Motivated
- Phillip Meadows
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- Wittgenstein on Use, Meaning and the Experience of Meaning
- Elena Valeri
- Nov. 29, 2024 | Special issue
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- The Philosophical Investigations and Its Seventieth Anniversary
- Luigi Perissinotto, Elena Valeri
- Nov. 19, 2024 | Special issue
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- Discussions of a Private Language: Wittgenstein and Rhees
- Volker Munz
- Nov. 9, 2024 | Special issue
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- From the Referential to the Relational: Duchamp and Wittgensteinian Family Resemblance
- Marjorie Perloff
- Oct. 29, 2024 | Special issue
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- Wittgenstein’s Methodology of Gestalt Psychology
- Michel Ter Hark
- Oct. 29, 2024 | Special issue
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- The Bridge from Language to Mind: PI, §§240-256
- Meredith Williams
- Oct. 25, 2024 | Special issue
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- Wittgenstein, Contexts, and Artificial Intelligence
- Carlo Penco
- Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue
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- “Following according to a rule is FUNDAMENTAL to our language-game”. Rules and Meaning in Wittgenstein
- William Child
- Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue
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- Frege and Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
- Marie McGinn
- Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue
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- Caveat Lector: From Wittgenstein to The Philosophy of Reading
- Robert Hanna
- Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue
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- The Philosophical Investigations in Philosophy of Religion
- Thomas Carroll
- Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue
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- Understanding Others, Conceptual Know-How and Social World
- Rémi Clot-Goudard
- Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue
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- The Grammar of the Ordinary
- Valérie Aucouturier
- Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue
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- Home Language and Philosophers’ Language
- Lars Hertzberg
- Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue
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- Answering Sraffa on Religion: Wittgenstein Walking the Tightrope
- Mauro Engelmann
- Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue
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- Mapmaking and Cartography as Philosophical Matters. An Introduction
- Francesco Ragazzi
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Mapping a Blank Spot and Making Empty Spaces
- Zsolt Török
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- Mural and Landscape Painting Revisited
- Christian Keller
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- Maps and the Epistemic Risks of Visual Representation
- Quill Kukla
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- How Much Geography in Kant’s Critical Project?
- Marco Costantini
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- Territorial Images of Yorùbáland
- BABATUNDE OGUNDIWIN
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- The World as Allegory in Cartography
- Philipp Tschochohei
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- The Strait and the Sea
- Tarek Elhaik
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- Semiotics After Geontopower
- Elizabeth Povinelli
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- A View From Above
- Domenico Quaranta
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- Mappers, Mapmakers, and Cartographers and Where to Find Them in Contemporary Art (a Modest Proposal)
- Marcello Tanca
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- Ryle’s Conceptual Cartography
- Julia Tanney
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- Dáiddakárta
- Elin Haugdal
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- The Evergrowing Map
- Paolo Bosca
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- Biston betularia carbonaria
- Antonio Ianniello
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- On the Genesis, Continuum, and the Lowest Bound of Selves
- Reshma Joy
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Cognition and Intelligence After the Post-Human Turn
- Roberta Raffaetà
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- The Consequences of Enactivism on Moral Considerability in Environmental Ethics
- Corrado Fizzarotti
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Cognition?
- Carrie Figdor
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Extending the Concept of Cognition and Meta‑Theoretical Anthropomorphism
- Maja Białek
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Do Willows Really Weep? Cognition, Its Grammar, and the Problem of Pluralism
- Filippo Batisti
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Introduction
- Filippo Batisti
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics
- Claudia Terragni, Valeria Cesaroni
- Dec. 20, 2023 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Connecting Unconventional Cognition to Humans
- David Colaço
- Dec. 20, 2023 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Introduction
- Cristina Baldacci, Susanne Franco, Pietro Conte
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue
- Stefano Mudu
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- Framing the Unframed: Avalanche, an Art Magazine
- Tancredi Gusman
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- Differences Between Single and Sequential Pictorial Storytelling
- Hannah Fasnacht
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- Framing Humans for AI
- Gabriella Giannachi
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- Reframing Second-Wave Feminism Through Fashion Industry and Augmented Reality
- Margherita Fontana
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- The Image in a Vat?
- Michele Di Monte
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
- Mieke Bal, Pietro Conte, Cristina Baldacci, Susanne Franco
- Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023
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- Why Joseph Margolis Has Never Been an Analytic Philosopher of Art
- Roberta Dreon, Francesco Ragazzi
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Translation as the Mirror Image of Hermeneutics
- Carla Canullo
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- The Limits and Cognitive Resources of Translating
- Edoardo Simonotti
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Interpretation as Translation
- Éliane Laverdure
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Margolis, Historicism, and the History of Aesthetics
- Russell Pryba
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Introduction – Translation as Interpretation
- Gian Luigi Paltrinieri, Francesco Camera
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Translation as a Test for the Explicit-Implicit Distinction
- Francesca Ervas
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Introduction – On Joseph Margolis’ Aesthetics. A Symposium
- Alessandro Cavazzana
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- “Wie eine Äolsharfe vom Winde berührt”
- Massimiliano De Villa
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Art, Artifacts, and Margolis’ Recovery of Objectivity
- David Hildebrand
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- In the Workshop of the Translator
- Maria Teresa Costa
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Heidegger and the Problem of Translating the Greek Beginning
- Marco Cavazza
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- The Efficacy of True Speech
- Mauro Serra
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- Λόγος as an Anti-Psychologistic Conception of Meaning
- David Hereza Modrego
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- Introduction
- Begoña Ramón Cámara
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- Aristotle and Inner Awareness
- Manuel García Carpintero
- Forthcoming | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- What Does 'To Know Something' Mean?
- Anthony Bonnemaison
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- Being Worthy of One’s Name
- Lidia Palumbo
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- Wittgenstein vs. Socrates: Wittgenstein and Plato
- James C. Klagge
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- λεκτόν and Use
- Felice Cimatti
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- Acting and Behaving: The Philosopher in Ancient Greece and Late Modernity
- Marcello La Matina
- Forthcoming | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- Leibniz Lectures (Spring 1947)
- Peter Frederick Strawson
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- Conceivability Errors and the Role of Imagination in Symbolization
- Lucia Oliveri
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- Prepositions and Spatial Relations in Natural Languages According to Leibniz
- Massimo Mugnai
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- Preface
- Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Luigi Perissinotto
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- Leibniz on the Frege Point
- Jean-Baptiste Rauzy
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- Leibniz on the Empty Term ‘Nothing’
- Filippo Costantini
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- The ‘I’ in the Monad: Leibniz and the Essential Indexical
- Eros Corazza, Christopher Genovesi
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- Leibniz’s Last Letter on Linguistic Matters
- Stefano Gensini
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
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- Neuroimaging. How to Question Scientific Images and Their Artistic Value
- Emanuele Carlenzi, Davide Coraci, Alessandro Pigoni
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- Motoric Understanding and Aesthetic Appreciation
- Gabriele Ferretti
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- Decolonizing Visuality: The Artistic and Social Practices of Andrea Carlson
- Oliwia Olesiejuk
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- The Treachery of Images: Why Images Do not Exist and There Are Only Flat Objects
- Riccardo Manzotti
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- On the Narrative Potential of Depiction
- Katerina Bantinaki
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- S’inspirer des spirales
- Georges Didi-Huberman
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- Realism Relativized: A Cultural-Historical Approach to What Images Capture
- Jesse Prinz
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- Where Images Make Their Wonder: An Introduction
- Alessandro Cavazzana, Francesco Ragazzi
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- Perceiving Images and Styles
- Nathaniel Goldberg, Chris Gavaler
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- The Productive Inadequacy of Image for Contemporary Painting
- Moyra Derby
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- The Visual Power of Photography and Its Status as a Representation
- Katarzyna Weichert
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- Inspired by Spirals
- Georges Didi-Huberman
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- The Narrative Aesthetics of Protest Images
- Hannah Fasnacht
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- Wittgenstein’s Bridge
- Michael Biggs
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
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- 4E’s Are Too Many
- Alfonsina Scarinzi
- Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020
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- Emoting the Situated Mind
- Giovanna Colombetti
- Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020
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- Embodiment and Aesthetics: Cognition Going Wider
- Elena Valeri, Filippo Batisti
- Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020
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- Raw Cognition
- Carlos Vara Sánchez
- Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020
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- Enactivism and Normativity
- Anna Boncompagni
- Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020
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- 4E Cognition and the Spectrum of Aesthetic Experience
- Mia Burnett, Shaun Gallagher
- Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020
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- Aesthetic Cognitivism
- Anna Marmodoro
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- Two Epistemological Arguments against Two Semantic Dispositionalisms
- Andrea Guardo
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- Why the Mark of the Dispositional is not the Mark of the Intentional
- Alberto Voltolini
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- General Remarks on the Theory of Dispositions
- Alexius Meinong
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- Allgemeines zur Lehre von den Dispositionen
- Alexius Meinong
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- Introduction
- Alice Morelli, Luigi Perissinotto
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- States of the Possibility. Meinong’s Theory of Dispositions and the Epistemology of Education
- Sascha Freyberg
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- Laws, Exceptions and Dispositions
- Max Kistler
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- Foreword
- Luigi Perissinotto
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- 6 | 1 | 2025
- Carlos Vara Sánchez, Luigi Perissinotto, Roberta Dreon
- Sept. 1, 2025
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- 5 | 2 | 2024
- Filippo Casati, Filippo Costantini
- Dec. 11, 2024
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- Special issue
- Oct. 14, 2024
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- 5 | 1 | 2024
- Francesco Ragazzi
- July 26, 2024
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- 4 | 2 | 2023
- Filippo Batisti
- Dec. 20, 2023
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- 4 | 1 | 2023
- Pietro Conte, Cristina Baldacci, Susanne Franco
- Sept. 25, 2023
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- 3 | 2 | 2022
- Gian Luigi Paltrinieri, Francesco Camera, Alessandro Cavazzana
- Dec. 20, 2022
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- 3 | 1 | 2022
- Begoña Ramón Cámara
- June 30, 2022
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- 2 | 2 | 2021
- Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Luigi Perissinotto
- Dec. 15, 2021
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- 2 | 1 | 2021
- Alessandro Cavazzana, Francesco Ragazzi
- June 30, 2021
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- 1 | 2 | 2020
- Elena Valeri, Filippo Batisti
- Dec. 9, 2020
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- Luigi Perissinotto, Alice Morelli
- June 30, 2020
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Together: Non-Representational Accounts of Social Cognition | On The Philosophy Of J.-P. Cometti. A Symposium
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The Dark Side of Being: On What There is Not
Dec. 11, 2024 -
Perspectives on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
Oct. 14, 2024 -
The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind
July 26, 2024 -
De-Humanizing Cognition, Intelligence, and Agency. A Critical Assessment Between Philosophy, Ethics, and Science
Dec. 20, 2023 -
Unframing/Reframing in the Contemporary Visual, Performing, and Media Arts
Sept. 25, 2023 -
Translation as Interpretation | On Joseph Margolis’ Aesthetics. A Symposium
Dec. 20, 2022 -
Greek and Contemporary Philosophies of Language Face to Face
June 30, 2022 -
Leibniz on Language and Cognition
Dec. 15, 2021 -
Image/Images: A Debate Between Philosophy and Visual Studies
June 30, 2021 -
4E Cognition: Aesthetics, Ecology and Beyond
Dec. 9, 2020 -
On Dispositions
June 30, 2020
Luigi Perissinotto, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Advisory Board
Jocelyn Benoist, Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Annalisa Coliva, University of California, USA
Pascal Engel, EHESS, Paris
Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, USA; University of Wollongong, Australia
Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College, New York, USA
Wolfgang Huemer, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italia
Daniel Hutto, University of Wollongong, Australia
John Hyman, University College, London, UK
Oskari Kuusela, East Anglia University, UK
Michael Lüthy, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Deutschland
Diego Marconi, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia
Anna Marmodoro, University of Oxford, UK
Kevin Mulligan, Université de Genève, Suisse
Mauro Nobile, Università di Trento, Italia
Elisa Paganini, Università Statale di Milano, Italia
Claudio Paolucci, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Italia
Léo Junior Peruzzo, PUCPR – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brasil
Francesca Piazza, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia
Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte, Universitat de València, España
Pierre Steiner, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Claudine Tiercelin, Collège de France, Paris, France
Nicla Vassallo, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italia
Jesús Vega Encabo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España
Editorial Board
Cristina Baldacci, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Pietro Conte, Università Statale di Milano, Italia
Filippo Costantini, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italia
Marco Dalla Gassa, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Roberta Dreon, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Susanne Franco, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Mattia Geretto, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Corinna Guerra, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Alessandra Jacomuzzi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Diego Mantoan, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia
Eleonora Montuschi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Sandro Moro
Gian Luigi Paltrinieri, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Luigi Perissinotto, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Begoña Ramón Cámara, Universitat de València, España
Matteo Vagelli, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Carlos Vára Sanchez, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Editorial assistants
Filippo Batisti, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
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CALL FOR PAPERS (JOLMA 7 | 1 | 2026)
Spinoza on Language
Editor: Emanuela Scribano
Although not systematic, Spinoza’s investigation on the origin, function, and cognitive value of language is present in all of his works. In TIE, KV, and E, language is linked to imagination and inadequate knowledge. In E, language also becomes the example par excellence of the association of ideas, therefore of memory and imaginative knowledge. Dependent on the association between bodily affections, the sign-meaning connection does not express the essence of things and can vary according to individual experiences. For this reason, the same word does not necessarily correspond to the same meaning. Moreover, a word does not always correspond to an idea, perhaps inadequate, but susceptible to univocal definition, as is the case of words that express universal notions. In cases of extreme philosophical importance, Spinoza considers language to directly express the most common prejudices. In all these texts, language proves to be the instrument of communication in the absence of adequate ideas, and an organ of expression of imaginative knowledge. If language is the repository of the errors of the imagination, philosophy must first address the beliefs deposited in linguistic uses, and second, try to oppose them. In doing so, however, it is forced to use the same language modeled on inadequate knowledge. The problem of expressing true ideas through language gave rise to opposite interpretations by D. Savan (“Spinoza and Language”, The Philosophical Review, 1958) and G. H. R Parkinson, “Language and knowledge in Spinoza.” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 1969), and was recently taken up again by Celine Hervet, De l’imagination à l’entendement: la puissance du langage chez Spinoza, Paris, Garnier 2012. Although the analysis of errors related to language invites a close comparison with other contemporary theories of language, such as that of Thomas Hobbes, this subject has not received much attention in studies devoted to Spinoza’s theory of language.
The analysis of language in the TTP and in the Hebrew Grammar is different in purpose from the analysis carried out in other works. In TTP, it is not a question of bringing out the inadequacy of the ideas that correspond to ordinary language, but of identifying exactly the meanings of the Hebrew language, whether they are adequate ideas or not. By ignoring the linguistic habits of Hebrew, one risks attributing to the speakers and to the words used by the authors meanings and intentions that were not those of the authors themselves. The philosophical implications of Hebrew Grammar are rarely discussed by the scholars, but this work deserves a deep investigation as an example of scientific study of a language. The Italian translation of the Compendium of Hebrew Grammar, edited by Pina Totaro (Firenze, Olschki 2012) encourages to delve deeper into this aspect of Spinoza's thought. Finally, the political use of language underlined in TTP deserves closer attention, as Laurent Bove has suggested (L. Bove, “L’Enseignement philosophique”, La théorie du langage chez Spinoza 1991).
This journal issue aims to expand our knowledge of Spinoza's views on language, its cognitive function, its role in orienting beliefs, its cultural meaning, its relationship with truth and with different cultural contexts. Contributions may address one or more topics related to this Call and focus on Spinoza's works, his relationship with contemporary or antecedent theories of language, his reception, or his relevance to present-day philosophical debates.
Invited Contributors:
- Filippo Mignini
- Pierre-François Moreau
- Steven Nadler
- Pina Totaro
Submission deadline: April 30th, 2026
Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2026
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