JoLMA The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts

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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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Special issue
Perspectives on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
Oct. 14, 2024

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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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Wittgenstein’s Methodology of Gestalt Psychology
Michel Ter Hark
Oct. 29, 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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The Bridge from Language to Mind: PI, §§240-256
Meredith Williams
Oct. 25, 2024 | Special issue

6 22
Frege and Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
Marie McGinn
Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue

3 10
“Following according to a rule is FUNDAMENTAL to our language-game”. Rules and Meaning in Wittgenstein
William Child
Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue

4 22
The Philosophical Investigations in Philosophy of Religion
Thomas Carroll
Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue

8 21
Wittgenstein, Contexts, and Artificial Intelligence
Carlo Penco
Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue

1 7
Caveat Lector: From Wittgenstein to The Philosophy of Reading
Robert Hanna
Oct. 21, 2024 | Special issue

10 38
Home Language and Philosophers’ Language
Lars Hertzberg
Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue

3 23
The Grammar of the Ordinary
Valérie Aucouturier
Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue

2 24
Understanding Others, Conceptual Know-How and Social World
Rémi Clot-Goudard
Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue

5 33
Answering Sraffa on Religion: Wittgenstein Walking the Tightrope
Mauro Engelmann
Oct. 14, 2024 | Special issue

22 87
Mapmaking and Cartography as Philosophical Matters. An Introduction
Francesco Ragazzi
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

9 62
Biston betularia carbonaria
Antonio Ianniello
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

42 235
Dáiddakárta
Elin Haugdal
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

1 44
Territorial Images of Yorùbáland
BABATUNDE OGUNDIWIN
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

19 89
A View From Above
Domenico Quaranta
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

10 59
Ryle’s Conceptual Cartography
Julia Tanney
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

6 54
Mapping a Blank Spot and Making Empty Spaces
Zsolt Török
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

3 50
Mural and Landscape Painting Revisited
Christian Keller
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

35 158
The Strait and the Sea
Tarek Elhaik
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

6 83
The World as Allegory in Cartography
Philipp Tschochohei
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

27 133
Semiotics After Geontopower
Elizabeth Povinelli
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

32 137
Mappers, Mapmakers, and Cartographers and Where to Find Them in Contemporary Art (a Modest Proposal)
Marcello Tanca
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

11 72
How Much Geography in Kant’s Critical Project?
Marco Costantini
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

6 96
The Evergrowing Map
Paolo Bosca
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

24 118
Maps and the Epistemic Risks of Visual Representation
Quill Kukla
July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024

24 145
The Consequences of Enactivism on Moral Considerability in Environmental Ethics
Corrado Fizzarotti
Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023

66 203
Cognition and Intelligence After the Post-Human Turn
Roberta Raffaetà
Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023

44 142
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Cognition?
Carrie Figdor
Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023

17 60
Extending the Concept of Cognition and Meta‑Theoretical Anthropomorphism
Maja Białek
Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023

55 192
On the Genesis, Continuum, and the Lowest Bound of Selves
Reshma Joy
Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023

22 73
Introduction
Filippo Batisti
Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023

25 96
Do Willows Really Weep? Cognition, Its Grammar, and the Problem of Pluralism
Filippo Batisti
Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023

26 103
Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics
Claudia Terragni, Valeria Cesaroni
Dec. 20, 2023 | 4 | 2 | 2023

28 212
Connecting Unconventional Cognition to Humans
David Colaço
Dec. 20, 2023 | 4 | 2 | 2023

15 57
Introduction
Cristina Baldacci, Susanne Franco, Pietro Conte
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

79 225
Reframing Second-Wave Feminism Through Fashion Industry and Augmented Reality
Margherita Fontana
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

73 266
Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
Mieke Bal, Pietro Conte, Cristina Baldacci, Susanne Franco
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

9 52
The Image in a Vat?
Michele Di Monte
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

22 73
Differences Between Single and Sequential Pictorial Storytelling
Hannah Fasnacht
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

20 114
Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue
Stefano Mudu
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

41 131
Framing the Unframed: Avalanche, an Art Magazine
Tancredi Gusman
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

46 91
Framing Humans for AI
Gabriella Giannachi
Sept. 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2023

39 163
In the Workshop of the Translator
Maria Teresa Costa
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

30 272
Why Joseph Margolis Has Never Been an Analytic Philosopher of Art
Roberta Dreon, Francesco Ragazzi
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

30 125
Introduction – On Joseph Margolis’ Aesthetics. A Symposium
Alessandro Cavazzana
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

22 129
Translation as the Mirror Image of Hermeneutics
Carla Canullo
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

51 190
Heidegger and the Problem of Translating the Greek Beginning
Marco Cavazza
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

9 98
Translation as a Test for the Explicit-Implicit Distinction
Francesca Ervas
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

14 88
“Wie eine Äolsharfe vom Winde berührt”
Massimiliano De Villa
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

17 129
Interpretation as Translation
Éliane Laverdure
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

14 175
Art, Artifacts, and Margolis’ Recovery of Objectivity
David Hildebrand
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

14 109
The Limits and Cognitive Resources of Translating
Edoardo Simonotti
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

36 103
Introduction – Translation as Interpretation
Gian Luigi Paltrinieri, Francesco Camera
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

8 85
Margolis, Historicism, and the History of Aesthetics
Russell Pryba
Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022

15 192
λεκτόν and Use
Felice Cimatti
June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022

9 184
Λόγος as an Anti-Psychologistic Conception of Meaning
David Hereza Modrego
June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022

32 229
Aristotle and Inner Awareness
Manuel García Carpintero
Forthcoming | 3 | 1 | 2022

39 245
Wittgenstein vs. Socrates: Wittgenstein and Plato
James C. Klagge
June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022

12 146
The Efficacy of True Speech
Mauro Serra
June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022

19 141
Being Worthy of One’s Name
Lidia Palumbo
June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022

39 165
What Does 'To Know Something' Mean?
Anthony Bonnemaison
June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022

36 229
Acting and Behaving: The Philosopher in Ancient Greece and Late Modernity
Marcello La Matina
Forthcoming | 3 | 1 | 2022

26 137
Introduction
Begoña Ramón Cámara
June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022

30 190
Leibniz Lectures (Spring 1947)
Peter Frederick Strawson
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

28 70
Preface
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Luigi Perissinotto
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

35 185
Leibniz on the Empty Term ‘Nothing’
Filippo Costantini
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

38 205
The ‘I’ in the Monad: Leibniz and the Essential Indexical
Eros Corazza, Christopher Genovesi
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

42 204
Leibniz’s Last Letter on Linguistic Matters
Stefano Gensini
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

22 138
Conceivability Errors and the Role of Imagination in Symbolization
Lucia Oliveri
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

27 158
Prepositions and Spatial Relations in Natural Languages According to Leibniz
Massimo Mugnai
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

19 175
Leibniz on the Frege Point
Jean-Baptiste Rauzy
Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021

40 276
The Narrative Aesthetics of Protest Images
Hannah Fasnacht
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

26 152
Motoric Understanding and Aesthetic Appreciation
Gabriele Ferretti
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

56 186
Inspired by Spirals
Georges Didi-Huberman
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

43 280
Decolonizing Visuality: The Artistic and Social Practices of Andrea Carlson
Oliwia Olesiejuk
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

66 306
The Treachery of Images: Why Images Do not Exist and There Are Only Flat Objects
Riccardo Manzotti
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

78 224
Where Images Make Their Wonder: An Introduction
Alessandro Cavazzana, Francesco Ragazzi
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

45 261
The Productive Inadequacy of Image for Contemporary Painting
Moyra Derby
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

56 250
The Visual Power of Photography and Its Status as a Representation
Katarzyna Weichert
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

28 220
Wittgenstein’s Bridge
Michael Biggs
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

16 98
S’inspirer des spirales
Georges Didi-Huberman
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

65 211
Realism Relativized: A Cultural-Historical Approach to What Images Capture
Jesse Prinz
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

18 150
Perceiving Images and Styles
Nathaniel Goldberg, Chris Gavaler
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

31 254
On the Narrative Potential of Depiction
Katerina Bantinaki
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

22 254
Neuroimaging. How to Question Scientific Images and Their Artistic Value
Emanuele Carlenzi, Davide Coraci, Alessandro Pigoni
June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021

48 402
4E’s Are Too Many
Alfonsina Scarinzi
Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020

73 246
Embodiment and Aesthetics: Cognition Going Wider
Elena Valeri, Filippo Batisti
Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020

147 667
4E Cognition and the Spectrum of Aesthetic Experience
Mia Burnett, Shaun Gallagher
Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020

64 421
Enactivism and Normativity
Anna Boncompagni
Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020

111 515
Emoting the Situated Mind
Giovanna Colombetti
Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020

48 255
Raw Cognition
Carlos Vara Sánchez
Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020

21 191
Why the Mark of the Dispositional is not the Mark of the Intentional
Alberto Voltolini
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

11 143
Allgemeines zur Lehre von den Dispositionen
Alexius Meinong
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

14 198
Laws, Exceptions and Dispositions
Max Kistler
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

17 166
Two Epistemological Arguments against Two Semantic Dispositionalisms
Andrea Guardo
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

14 111
Foreword
Luigi Perissinotto
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

22 214
States of the Possibility. Meinong’s Theory of Dispositions and the Epistemology of Education
Sascha Freyberg
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

27 162
General Remarks on the Theory of Dispositions
Alexius Meinong
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

58 299
Aesthetic Cognitivism
Anna Marmodoro
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

20 107
Introduction
Alice Morelli, Luigi Perissinotto
June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020

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Francesco Ragazzi
July 26, 2024

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Filippo Batisti
Dec. 20, 2023

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Pietro Conte, Cristina Baldacci, Susanne Franco
Sept. 25, 2023

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Gian Luigi Paltrinieri, Francesco Camera, Alessandro Cavazzana
Dec. 20, 2022

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June 30, 2022

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Dec. 15, 2021

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June 30, 2021

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Editor-in-Chief
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
Alessandro Cavazzana, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Marco Gigante, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Alice Morelli, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Francesco Ragazzi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Elena Valeri, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Managing Editor
Luigi Perissinotto, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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CALL FOR PAPERS (JOLMA 5 | 2 | 2024)

The Dark Side of Being: on What There is Not

Editors: Filippo Costantini (Ca’ Foscari University), Filippo Casati (Lehigh University)

In contrast to Quine’s Parmenidean (meta-)ontology and his preference for desert landscapes, recent years have seen a renewed interest in the non-being: non-existent entities, mere possibilia, negative properties, negative facts, absences, nothingness, voids, holes, etc. Interest in the category of the non-being is not limited to ontology, but has found applications in the philosophy of mind, both with the role that intentionality plays in relation to non-entities (Crane 2013, Priest 2016) and with the problem of perception of absences, and also in the philosophy of art with the much discussed status of absence art, i.e., art that features absences as esthetic objects (Farinnikova 2019). This issue of JOLMA aims to critically examine the role of nonexistence in our theorizing. We aim to collect both sympathetic and critical studies on this topic.

The questioning of Quine’s orthodoxy began by first challenging the Parmenidean assumption that we cannot have reference to the non-being. Indeed, this view seems self-defeating (aren’t we speaking of the non-being right now, and thus referring to it?), and this has motivated philosophers to explore the realm of non-existence, especially with the revival of neo-Meinonghian (meta-)ontologies. Alternative approaches consist in exploring the possibility of empty reference, i.e., fully legitimate singular terms without any reference. But soon non-entities acquired an even more important role. Philosophers began to discuss that strange object which is nothingness, characterized as the absence of everything (Priest 2014, Casati & Fujikawa 2019, Costantini 2020); sometimes arguing that it grounds all of reality (Priest & Gabriel 2022); others have argued for causation by absences or omissions, claiming that absences can enter into causal explanations (Dowe 2001, Shaffer 2004). The idea that the non-being can play an explanatory role in various philosophical contexts seems to be gaining ground. At the same time, these ideas have also been heavily criticized, for example by Mumford (2021) and Della Rocca (2020); while the former defends a position called Soft Parmenidism, the latter argues for the far more extreme position that there are no distinctions in reality denying any positive role to the non-being.

If we admit reference to nonexistent objects, why should we not admit that there are circumstances in which we see what there is not? Psychologists are familiar with illusory contours such as the Eherenstein illusion or the Kanizsa triangle. But recently, there has been a growing body of literature arguing that we experience and/or perceive absences. For example, Farennikova (2013) argues that absence experiences are perceptual phenomena. Moreover, Farennikova (2019) even argues that absences can have esthetic properties, with the implication that absence art enjoys objective value. By contrast, others have claimed that while we can experience absences, we do not perceive them (Gow 2021a, 2021b).

In this issue of JoLMA, we would like to discuss the deeper reasons that may lead us to admit the non-being (in whatever form) in our theorizing in various fields. First, what kind of theoretical role can the non-being play? Can it have any explanatory power? Or even a causal power? Second, can we experience absences and omissions? And if so, is this experience a perceptual phenomenon, or should it be explained in other terms? Third, how can the more traditional ontological views (such as Quine’s) resist such an admission? Do we really need the non-being, or can we do without it? Possible topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

Philosophy of language & metaphysics: (supposed) reference to non-existent entities; non-being & nothingness; empty terms/ and empty reference; mere possibilia; absences, omissions, voids, holes, empty space; absences and the number zero; negative properties and/or negative facts; negative truths (truthmakers for negative truths).

Philosophy of Mind: perception of absences and omissions; illusory counters; perceptual paradoxes; theories of intentionality.

Philosophy of art: absence art; depicting absences; figures of absence; figural voids.

References

Bernstein, S., & Goldschmidt, T. (Eds.). (2021). Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Casati, F., & Fujikawa, N. (2019). "Nothingness, Meinongianism and Inconsistent Mereology." Synthese, 196, 3739-72.

Casati, R.; Varzi, A.C. (1994). Holes and other superficialities. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Costantini, F. (2020). "Extending Everything with Nothing". Philosophia, 48(4), 1413-36.

Crane, T. (2013). The Objects of Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Della Rocca, M. (2020). The Parmenidean Ascent. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dowe, P. (2001). "A Counterfactual Theory of Prevention and ‘Causation' by Omission". Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 79(2), 216-26.

Farennikova, A. (2013). "Seeing Absence". Philosophical Studies, 166, 429-54.

Farennikova, A. (2019). "Would You Buy Absence Art?". Perception, Cognition and Aesthetics, 255-78. London: Routledge.

Gow, L. (2021a). "Empty Space, Silence, and Absence". Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 51(7), 496-507.

Gow, L. (2021b). "A New Theory of Absence Experience". European Journal of Philosophy, 29(1), 168-81.

Irimia, A. (2021). "Depicting Absence: Thematic and Stylistic Paradoxes of Representation in Visual and Literary Imagery". Zocco, G. (ed.), The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms, vol. 4. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 533-44.

Mumford, S. (2021). Absence and Nothing: The Philosophy of what There is Not. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Priest, G. (2014). "Much Ado About Nothing". The Australasian Journal of Logic, 11(2).

Priest, G. (2016). "Towards Non-Being". Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Priest, G.; Gabriel, M. (2022). Everything and Nothing. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Schaffer, J. (2004). "Causes need not be physically connected to their effects: The case for negative causation". Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, 197-216.

Invited contributors

- Friederike Moltmann, CNRS

- Graham Priest, CUNY

- Stephen Mumford, Durham University

Submission deadline: May 31th, 2024

Notification of acceptance: August 15th, 2024

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CALL FOR PAPERS (JOLMA 6 | 1 | 2025)

Together: non-representational accounts of social cognition

Editor: Carlos Vara Sánchez

For a long time, in philosophy of mind and psychology, the ‘theory-theory’ and the ‘simulation theory’ have been the predominant approaches in trying to explain how one understands and interrelates with other people. Proponents of the first set of theories argue that we use folk or common sense psychology to infer things about other people's mental states (Baron-Cohen 1995; Leslie 1991). On the other hand, those who endorse the second approach consider that we use our own mental activity to elaborate models of other people’s minds (Gordon 1986; Heal 1986). Despite relevant differences, both frameworks share some basic assumptions, such as the unobservability principle (Krueger 2012) —i.e., we need some extra-perceptual processes to gain knowledge from mental states— or the observational stance —i.e., we need to observe others to explain their behavior.

In the last decades, the situation has changed. The conversation has become more nuanced and complex. New frameworks have offered novel approaches to social cognition. Among the reasons for this change, we can mention the resurging of phenomenological (Merleau-Ponty 2012) and pragmatist theories of the mind (Dewey 1922), the consolidation of James Gibson’s ecological psychology (Gibson 1979), and the emergence of enactivism (Varela, Thompson, and Rosch 1991). All these circumstances have brought renewed ideas, concepts, and perspectives to the debate. Compared to the theory-theory and the simulation theory, a common aspect contributed by these approaches is an emphasis on non-representational explanations of social cognition. Instead of private events such as simulations and inferences, we now find dynamic and action-oriented notions that are deeply embodied and embedded in the sociomaterial environment. Mentions of habits, resonance, attunement, constraints, affordances, or coordination are often found when discussing social cognition from a non-representational perspective in the work of Shaun Gallagher (2020), Anthony Chemero (2009), Giovanna Colombetti (2014), Reuben M. Baron (1980), Dan Zahavi (2014), or Thomas Fuchs (2018). However, there is still much to discuss in this field.

This issue of JOLMA intends to contribute to the debate on non-representational approaches to social cognition and their viability. We aim to collect both sympathetic and critical papers on this topic coming from a variety of philosophical and psychological perspectives. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Limitations and strengths of non-representational approaches to social cognition;

- Direct perception and social interaction;

- On the possibility of higher-order social cognitive processes without representations;

- Tensions between ecological psychology and enactivism in social cognition;

- Social interaction;

- Non-representational dynamics of social cognition;

- On habits and affordances;

- Affectivity and intersubjectivity.

Invited Contributors:

- Laura Candiotto, University of Pardubice

- Edward Baggs, University of Southern Denmark

- Miguel Segundo-Ortín, University of Murcia

Submission deadline: December 31st, 2024

Notification of acceptance: February 15th, 2025

For any question, please use the following address: Carlos Vara Sánchez (carlosvarasanchez@gmail.com) or the journal (jolma_editor@unive.it).

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