Three paradoxes of personhood: The venetian lectures

Joseph Margolis, holds the Laura H. Carnell chair of Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of Temple University in Philadelphia. A leading figure in American Pragmatism, he has developed a third original alternative between analytic philosophy and the continental tradition, focused on a form of robust relativism, realistic constructivism, and a philosophy of the cultural world strictly connected with the idea of the artifactuality of persons. He has published a long series of papers and more than 30 books.

Roberta Dreon, teaches Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She has published on Dewey’s aesthetics, on classical pragmatism, and on phenomenology. For some years her inquiries have been focused on the relations between language and sensibility in their wider aspects and consequences, as well as on the anthropological roots of the aesthetic in its many facets. Habits, emotions and enlanguaged experience are at the centre of her current research.