期刊名称：European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
电子版ISSN：2036-4091
出版年度：2015
卷号：7
期号：1
出版社：Associazone Pragma
摘要：In this paper, I address the question of the nature and ground of objectivity,with the aim to develop a pragmatist account of its distinctive features. Traditionally,pragmatism has been considered as an alternative to Kantian approaches. The aimof the paper is to argue that, contrary to the received view, a consistent pragmatisttheory of objectivity should preserve many insights of Kantian and post-Kantianphilosophy. My thesis is that Kantian notions of spontaneity, activity and objectivitycan be fruitfully reformulated and translated into pragmatist terms. The key notionhere is that of practices. It is only within the context of a practice that concepts can besuccessfully applied to experience. The intrinsic normativity of practices establishesdifferent levels of objectivity. The paper defends a pluralistic view of reality, insistingon the irreducibility of common-sense objectivity to scientific objectivity. At the sametime, it is maintained that common-sense practices have a primacy over scientificpractices, and that scientific objects are constructed out of common-sense objectsthrough a process of articulation of the potentialities of the latter.
