COGNITIO-ESTUDOS

Revista Eletrônica de Filosofia
Philosophy Eletronic Journal
ISSN 1809-8428

São Paulo: Center for Pragmatism Studies
Philosophy Graduate Program
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Available in http://www.pucsp.br/pragmatismo

Vol. 10, nº.1, January-June 2013

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EDITORIAL

It is with great pride that we publish the first 2013 volume of COGNITIO-ESTUDOS: Philosophy Electronic Journal. Since 2004, nine years ago, the editorial policy of the journal has endeavored to promote a dialogue between contemporary philosophy and philosophical tradition, encompassing aspects that concern Pragmatism, seen in the light of a meaningful reflection on the major issues brought by the history of philosophy. As an available space, we have encouraged various interpretative and thematic nuances, receiving contributions from young researchers as well as from senior scholars.

Volume 10.1 is a further example of the wide range of themes on which it is possible to develop a deep and engrossed dialogue. The journal provides the reader with twelve articles and one translation with various analytical focuses, ranging from topics linked to classic pragmatism with studies on Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, to others that concern contemporary Philosophy of Science and Ethics, including essays on Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn and Karl Otto Apel, among others. It also includes Husserlian phenomenology; foundations of existentialism and Kierkegaard's religious reflections; Medieval Philosophy, with a study on evidences of the existence of God according to St Thomas Aquinas; Economics, interpreted in light of the logic of Peircean abduction; Politics, with reflections on the compatibility between Hans Joas' pragmatism and Bakunin's anarchism; Medicine, from considerations on Biomedical Ethics under the principialist viewpoint of Beauchamp and Childress; the Sartrean Critique of Dialectical Reason; Philosophy of Language, with a substantial article by Donald Davidson; and Music, as a semiotic and phenomenological expression of Beauty.

We believe that the theoretical interfaces provided by the editorial policy of the journal tend to widen the horizons in relation to old and new philosophy problems, so as to achieve its educational purpose. We therefore invite the reader to get involved in the various possibilities offered by this issue of COGNITIO-ESTUDOS, in order to afford, as Peirce suggested, an opportunity for the realization of real ideas to which our soul relates as cellulose relates to the beauty of the rose.

Good reading,

Rodrigo Vieira de Almeida
Assistant Editor/ COGNITIO-ESTUDOS
Center for Pragmatism Studies, PUC-SP, Brazil