Secondly, commenting Platos’ Lachetes and the Cynical attitude, he referred to the Greek Parrhesia, the will to speak freely. Philosophy is anĮrgon, a work, a labor, a practical and “real” activity, that must undergo the test of praxis (and of politics). Commenting Plato’s Seventh Letter, he said the philosophy coincides with “its practices” (pragmata). I will show two specific points of his philosophical testament (as we can consider the two courses). However, it was during the last two courses delivered at the Collége de France, recently published with the title of The Government of Self and Others and The Courage of Truth, that he recognized explicitly his pragmatic vein. We can say then that he has always been a pragmatist, unbeknown to him. Properly truths as substances, but effects of truths as incorporeal practices of discourse, that change slowly, but inevitably, the limits of our knowledge. By connecting Peirce’s conceptions of ethics to his theory of the categories I hope to have provided a better understanding of the structure of his normative realism.Foucault underlined, throughout his whole intellectual activity, the question of truth as an effect of power-knowledge. Also, a categorical account is understood as essential to perceive the inner coherence of his moral philosophy and to support the view that Peirce moved from a nominalist to a realist position in ethics. A diachronic approach is necessary to correct some efforts to resolve the inconsistencies in Peirce’s moral theory. This paper proceeds by tracing the growth of Peirce’s thinking about ethics and correlating his conflicting positions with his theory of the categories. Extracts from Peirce’s famous 1898 lectures (when he dismissed ethics as useless) are frequently combined with later passages from 1902 onwards, when he changed his mind. Scholars have interpreted the real tensions in Perice's normative thought by conflating passages from different moments in the development of his philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to offer a distinct contribution to recent attempts to understand Peirce’s normative thinking. Organizing committee (NPN): Henrik Rydenfelt (Oulu), chair Mats Bergman (Helsinki) Antje Gimmler (Aalborg) Katariina Holma (Oulu) Erkki Kilpinen (Helsinki) Jonathan Knowles (NTNU, Trondheim) Torjus Midtgarden (Bergen) Jón Ólafsson (Reykjavík) Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Tallinn) Sami Pihlström (Helsinki) Bjørn Ramberg (Oslo) Frederik Stjernfelt (Aalborg/Copenhagen) Ulf Zackariasson (Uppsala) Chiara Ambrosio (UCL) Programme committee (EPA) Henrik Rydenfelt (Oulu NPN) Sami Pihlström (Helsinki NPN) Rossella Fabbrichesi (Università degli Studi di Milano Pragma) Guido Baggio (Roma 3 Pragma) Daniel Cefaï (EHESS Pragmata) Mathias Girel (ENS Pragmata) Emil Visnovsky (Comenius University CEPF) John Ryder (American University of Malta CEPF) Previous conferences The First European Pragmatism Conference (Rome, Italy, September 2012) The Second European Pragmatism Conference (Paris, France, September 2015) CONTACT ![]() The conference is hosted and sponsored by the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence Reason and Religious Recognition at the Faculty of Theology, and the Finnish Cultural Foundation. The conference is organized by the Nordic Pragmatism Network in collaboration with Associazione Pragma (Italy), Pragmata (France), the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the European Pragmatism Association. The third European Pragmatism Conference will take place at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 13-15 June 2018.
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