COGNITIO-ESTUDOS

Revista Eletrônica de Filosofia
Philosophy Electronic Journal
ISSN 1809-8428

São Paulo: Center for Pragmatism Studies
Philosophy Graduate Program
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Available at <http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitio>

Vol. 17, nº. 2, July-December, 2020

DOI: 10.23925/1809-8428.2020v17i2pAII

EDITORIAL

Dear reader,

We now present you the second issue of 2020 of COGNITIO-ESTUDOS: Electronic Philosophy Journal, a biannual publication of the Center for Pragmatism Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, PUC-SP.

Focusing on a philosophy of the mind, Marco Aurélio Sousa Alves and João César Ramos discuss the science of consciousness from the perspective of Immanuel Kant. The article attempts to investigate possible implications of transcendental philosophy in current debates based on the Critique of Pure Reason. For that purpose, the authors analyze transcendental critique, the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself. Thalyta Gonçalves Bertotti, in turn, attempts to analyze how to deal with the increasing popularity of flatearthism. Her proposal is based on Susan Haack's philosophy of science. As such, she seeks to understand flat earthers as the New Cynics and investigates what could be a commitment to the defense of science based on Critical Common-Sensism.

In the realm of pragmatism, Antonio Wardison C. Silva displays and analyzes the evolution of Karl-Otto Apel's transcendental pragmatics philosophy by pointing out three major periods: a) the historical-hermeneutical transformation of Kantian transcendental philosophy; b) the semiotic-pragmatic transformation of Kantian transcendental philosophy; and c) the establishment of a pragmatic-transcendental philosophy applied to history in discourse ethics. In that same sphere, Jorge Francisco da Silva and Karl Heinz Efken investigate the concept of warranted assertibility in Dewey as the heart his instrumental pragmatism. The article presents Dewey's specific brand of pragmatism in the context of classic American pragmatism, represented by Peirce and James, and examines the formation of the core of Dewey's instrumental pragmatism, which is his concept of warranted assertibility.

Also within the field of pragmatism, Eluiza Bortolotto Ghizzi assesses propositions for a semiotics of architecture based on a pragmatic meaning of its concepts. The author discusses the subject by analyzing objective idealism and language, as well as the eidetic connaturality among concepts, projects, constructions and uses; semiotics and pragmatism, the pragmatic meaning of concepts; and a critical review of concepts. Similar to the philosophic perspective of pragmatism, Anderson de Alencar Menezes and Gustavo Melo Silva investigate the state of democratic law and social pathologies from the perspective of Jürgen Habermas. This is an analysis of the ineffectiveness of a legal positivism that is merely technical and normative, disregarding ethics and communicative action. This issue is approach based on Habermas' way of seeing legal positivism as a means to ensure and protect democracy, freedom, and equality among subjects. The discussion of pragmatism continues with Thiago Mota by investigating Lyotard's agonistic pragmatics, the issue of legitimacy in post-modernity. The author breaches the subjects of legitimation in post-modernity, the linguistic turn and cognitive capitalism, the pragmatics of language games, an agonistic pragmatics, the agonistic pragmatics of society, an analysis of the Grundlagenkrise, performativity, paralogy, and difference.

From another perspective, José Elielton de Sousa reflects on the good and the goods in terms of human flourishing, from the perspective of Alasdair MacIntyre's thinking. The author attempts to render MacIntyre's theoretical elements for evolution explicit, from a socially teleological explanation to a biologically teleological explanation of human good.

Also from the pragmatic perspective, Valdomiro Pinheiro Teixeira Junior examines language in the preeminent setting of philosophy after the linguistic turn. The author attempts to categorize different thoughts from the linguistic turn, to wit, Hermeneutics, Structuralism, Formalism, Analytical Philosophy and Pragmatic Philosophy. Once again from the perspective of pragmatism, José Luiz Zanette, Caique Marra de Melo and Lucas Antonio Saran discuss public reason and the pragmatic approach to plurality in the context of public reason in contemporary times. They attempt to investigate the evolution of the claim for truth and manipulations, the order of the cosmos, and the subject of ends in Kant and Peirce as factors that direct to the moral issue and the issue of rational ethics and the model of Agonism in opposition to that.

This edition also includes the essay "The word dog does not bite", by Antonio José Romera Valverde; its purpose is to question the contradictory status of words in politics through a playful, aphorismatic survey. It also includes the translation by Guilherme Gräf Schüler and Rogério Passos Severo of "Relativism and Absolutism", originally written by W. V. Quine.

We hope that the texts in this edition, remarkable for their critical and reflexive thinking, may render its readers restless and inspired to seek new philosophical reflections.

Enjoy!

Antonio Wardison C. Silva
Assistant Editor / COGNITIO-ESTUDOS: Electronic Philosophy Journal
Center for Pragmatism Studies, PUC-SP, Brazil