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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- Rethinking the Double Law of Habit: James’ Case
- Alice Morelli
- June 20, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
- Habit and Automatism
- Sofia Sandreschi de Robertis
- June 20, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
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- Together: Non-Representational Accounts of Social Cognition | On The Philosophy Of J.-P. Cometti. A Symposium
- Carlos Vara Sánchez, Luigi Perissinotto, Roberta Dreon
- Sept. 1, 2025
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- Rethinking the Simulation Theory
- Robert M Gordon Gordon
- Sept. 1, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- Pragmatism and the Question of Language: Words and the Rest
- Jean-Pierre Cometti, Elena Valeri
- Sept. 1, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- Introduction
- Carlos Vara Sánchez
- Sept. 1, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- Experience, Language, and the Qualitative
- Roberta Dreon
- Sept. 1, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- Jean-Pierre Cometti: A Wittgensteinian Philosopher
- Luigi Perissinotto
- Sept. 1, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- Language as (a Mode of) Experience
- Pierre Steiner
- 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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- Habit and Automatism
- Sofia Sandreschi de Robertis
- June 20, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
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- Rethinking the Double Law of Habit: James’ Case
- Alice Morelli
- June 20, 2025 | 6 | 2 | 2025
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- Post-Cognitivism and the Indissoluble Bonding of Languaging, Embodiment, and Thinking
- Filippo Batisti, Marcos G. Vidal
- June 13, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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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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- Why Direct Social Perception Theory Needs To Be More Gibsonian
- Martyna Meyer, Edward Baggs
- June 13, 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2025
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- On the Ontology and Semantics of Absence
- Friederike Moltmann
- Forthcoming | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Sitting at the Kantian Table of Nothingness
- Marco Simionato
- Dec. 12, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Perceptual Experiences of (Depicted) Absence
- Alberto Voltolini
- Dec. 12, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Scars of Resistance: Manolo Millares's Aesthetics of Negativity
- Anda Pleniceanu
- Dec. 11, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Error Theories of Absence Causation Are Not (Yet) Adequately Motivated
- Phillip Meadows
- Dec. 11, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Quoting Nothing
- Luigi Pavone
- Dec. 11, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Introduction
- Filippo Costantini, Filippo Casati
- Dec. 11, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Metaphysical Grounding and Being’s Incompleteness
- J.M. Fritzman
- Dec. 11, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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- Actual Properties of Fictional Objects
- Graham Priest
- Dec. 11, 2024 | 5 | 2 | 2024
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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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- 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
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- Caveat Lector: From Wittgenstein to The Philosophy of Reading
- Robert Hanna
- 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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- Wittgenstein, Contexts, and Artificial Intelligence
- Carlo Penco
- 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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- The Philosophical Investigations in Philosophy of Religion
- Thomas Carroll
- Oct. 21, 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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- Understanding Others, Conceptual Know-How and Social World
- Rémi Clot-Goudard
- 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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- Dáiddakárta
- Elin Haugdal
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- The Evergrowing Map
- Paolo Bosca
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- How Much Geography in Kant’s Critical Project?
- Marco Costantini
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Territorial Images of Yorùbáland
- BABATUNDE OGUNDIWIN
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Mural and Landscape Painting Revisited
- Christian Keller
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Mappers, Mapmakers, and Cartographers and Where to Find Them in Contemporary Art (a Modest Proposal)
- Marcello Tanca
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- The World as Allegory in Cartography
- Philipp Tschochohei
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Ryle’s Conceptual Cartography
- Julia Tanney
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Maps and the Epistemic Risks of Visual Representation
- Quill Kukla
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Semiotics After Geontopower
- Elizabeth Povinelli
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Biston betularia carbonaria
- Antonio Ianniello
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- A View From Above
- Domenico Quaranta
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- The Strait and the Sea
- Tarek Elhaik
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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- Mapping a Blank Spot and Making Empty Spaces
- Zsolt Török
- July 26, 2024 | 5 | 1 | 2024
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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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- What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Cognition?
- Carrie Figdor
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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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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- Introduction
- Filippo Batisti
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Cognition and Intelligence After the Post-Human Turn
- Roberta Raffaetà
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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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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- Filippo Batisti
- Feb. 7, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Connecting Unconventional Cognition to Humans
- David Colaço
- Dec. 20, 2023 | 4 | 2 | 2023
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- Claudia Terragni, Valeria Cesaroni
- 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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- Reframing Second-Wave Feminism Through Fashion Industry and Augmented Reality
- Margherita Fontana
- 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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- 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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- Framing the Unframed: Avalanche, an Art Magazine
- Tancredi Gusman
- 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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- Introduction – Translation as Interpretation
- Gian Luigi Paltrinieri, Francesco Camera
- 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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- Translation as the Mirror Image of Hermeneutics
- Carla Canullo
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
- 47 download 256 search
- In the Workshop of the Translator
- Maria Teresa Costa
- 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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- Translation as a Test for the Explicit-Implicit Distinction
- Francesca Ervas
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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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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- Heidegger and the Problem of Translating the Greek Beginning
- Marco Cavazza
- 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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- Introduction – On Joseph Margolis’ Aesthetics. A Symposium
- Alessandro Cavazzana
- 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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- “Wie eine Äolsharfe vom Winde berührt”
- Massimiliano De Villa
- Dec. 20, 2022 | 3 | 2 | 2022
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- Aristotle and Inner Awareness
- Manuel García Carpintero
- Forthcoming | 3 | 1 | 2022
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- The Efficacy of True Speech
- Mauro Serra
- 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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- Introduction
- Begoña Ramón Cámara
- 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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- Λόγος as an Anti-Psychologistic Conception of Meaning
- David Hereza Modrego
- 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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- What Does 'To Know Something' Mean?
- Anthony Bonnemaison
- June 30, 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2022
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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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- Leibniz on the Empty Term ‘Nothing’
- Filippo Costantini
- Dec. 15, 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2021
- 32 download 268 search
- Leibniz Lectures (Spring 1947)
- Peter Frederick Strawson
- 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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- Leibniz on the Frege Point
- Jean-Baptiste Rauzy
- 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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- Preface
- Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Luigi Perissinotto
- 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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- Motoric Understanding and Aesthetic Appreciation
- Gabriele Ferretti
- 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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- Perceiving Images and Styles
- Nathaniel Goldberg, Chris Gavaler
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
- 68 download 300 search
- Realism Relativized: A Cultural-Historical Approach to What Images Capture
- Jesse Prinz
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
- 28 download 316 search
- Wittgenstein’s Bridge
- Michael Biggs
- 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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- Where Images Make Their Wonder: An Introduction
- Alessandro Cavazzana, Francesco Ragazzi
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
- 55 download 391 search
- The Productive Inadequacy of Image for Contemporary Painting
- Moyra Derby
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
- 63 download 277 search
- Inspired by Spirals
- Georges Didi-Huberman
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
- 74 download 404 search
- The Visual Power of Photography and Its Status as a Representation
- Katarzyna Weichert
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 2021
- 54 download 420 search
- The Narrative Aesthetics of Protest Images
- Hannah Fasnacht
- June 30, 2021 | 2 | 1 | 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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- On the Narrative Potential of Depiction
- Katerina Bantinaki
- 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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- 4E Cognition and the Spectrum of Aesthetic Experience
- Mia Burnett, Shaun Gallagher
- 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
- 55 download 356 search
- Raw Cognition
- Carlos Vara Sánchez
- Dec. 9, 2020 | 1 | 2 | 2020
- 122 download 625 search
- Emoting the Situated Mind
- Giovanna Colombetti
- 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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- Foreword
- Luigi Perissinotto
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- Laws, Exceptions and Dispositions
- Max Kistler
- 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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- Aesthetic Cognitivism
- Anna Marmodoro
- 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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- Two Epistemological Arguments against Two Semantic Dispositionalisms
- Andrea Guardo
- 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
- 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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- General Remarks on the Theory of Dispositions
- Alexius Meinong
- June 30, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2020
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- 6 | 2 | 2025
- Forthcoming
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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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- 1 | 1 | 2020
- Luigi Perissinotto, Alice Morelli
- June 30, 2020
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Forthcoming -
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
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
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Luigi Perissinotto, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
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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: January 13th, 2025
Notification of acceptance: February 15th, 2025
Articles must be written in English and should not exceed 6,500 words (40,000 characters approx.). The instructions for authors can be consulted in the journal’s website: ‘Editorial Guidelines’.
Submissions must be suitable for blind review. Each submission should also include a brief abstract of no more than 650 words and five keywords for indexing purposes. Notification of intent to submit, including both a title and a brief summary of the content, will be greatly appreciated, as it will assist with the coordination and planning of the issue.
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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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
Articles must be written in English and should not exceed 6,500 words (40,000 characters approx.). The instructions for authors can be consulted in the journal’s website: ‘Editorial Guidelines’.
Submissions must be suitable for blind review. Each submission should also include a brief abstract of no more than 650 words and five keywords for indexing purposes. Notification of intent to submit, including both a title and a brief summary of the content, will be greatly appreciated, as it will assist with the coordination and planning of the issue.
For any question, please use the following address: Emanuela Scribano (emanuela.scribano@unive.it) or the journal (jolma_editor@unive.it).
Please submit your proposals to the email jolma_editor@unive.it or using the section ‘Submit’ of the journal’s website.
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