" This volume contains the Proceedings of the Second Meeting Italian-American Philosophy, that took place in New York from 12 to 15 October 1999, together with two contributions given during the First Meeting. It is the first volume of a Yearbook for Philosophical Hermeneutics, The Dialogue, actually aiming to promote the dialogue between analytic and hermeneutic philosophy. Normativity and legitimacy are the two key concepts which have been at the base of the confrontation between the thought of the Frankfurt School and most of the American philosophy. They can offer the possibility for...

What is "truth" in analytic philosophy after logical positivism? What can we say about "truth" after taking into account the so-called hermeneutical circle? According to Nietzsche, "truth is that form of error without which human beings could not live." From this definition it follows that the point is not the rightness of a theory, but its importance for human existence. Could we say the same from an epistemological point of view? Who (or what) could be the neutral arbiter among different conceptual schemes? Can an interpretative paradigm stand in as a substitute for traditional objectivity?...

Proceedings of the V Meeting ItalianAmerican Philosophy. This volume contains the Proceedings of the V Meeting Italian/American Philosophy on the Theme Autonomy of Reason?.