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27Telling Tales Out of School: Pragmatic Reflections on Philosophical StorytellingJournal of Speculative Philosophy 27 (1): 1-32. 2013.ABSTRACT This article offers a critique of a deeply engrained tendency to narrate the story of American pragmatism exclusively or primarily in terms of modern European philosophy. While it suggests alternative stories, it is principally a metanarrative, an intentionally polemical story about our entrenched habits of philosophical storytelling. Indeed, the pragmatics of storytelling merits, especially in reference to historical accounts of American pragmatism, critical attention. The seemingly si…Read more
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6Semiotics from Peirce to Barthes (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 8-10. 1989.
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Charles Sanders Peirce., 1903 Harvard Lectures onIn Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg & Bernard N. Schumacher (eds.), The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 453. 2003.
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11Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 122-124. 2002.
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75Neglected Facets of Peirce's 'Speculative' RhetoricEducational Philosophy and Theory 45 (7): 712-736. 2013.
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72The Question of Voice and the Limits of Pragmatism: Emerson, Dewey, and CavellMetaphilosophy 35 (1-2): 178-201. 2004.One criticism of pragmatism, forcefully articulated by Stanley Cavell, is that pragmatism fails to deal with mourning, understood in the psychoanalytic sense as grief-work (Trauerarbeit). Such work would seemingly be as pertinent to philosophical investigations (especially ones conducted by pragmatists) as to psychoanalytic explorations. Finding such themes as mourning and loss in R. W. Emerson's writings, Cavell warns against assimilating Emerson's voice to that of American pragmatism, especial…Read more
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C.J.W. Kloesel , "Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A chronological edition", Vol. 4 (review)Man and World 24 (2): 235. 1991.
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26Love and Death—and Other Somatic TransactionsHypatia 17 (4): 163-172. 2002.This paper both elaborates and interrogates the transactional model of human experience at the center of Shannon W. Sullivan's Living Across and Through Skins. In particular, it highlights the need to supplement her account with a psychoanalytic reading of our gendered subjectivities. Moreover, it stresses the necessity to focus on such humanly important—and irreducibly somatic—phenomena as grief and eros.
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12Qualities, Qualisigns, and the Shifting Boundary Between Immediacy and MediationSemiotics 1-13. 2013.
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6A Revised Portrait of Human AgencyEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 1 (1): 2-24. 2009.Anthony Giddens, Hans Joas, Margaret Archer, Norbert Wiley, and Eugene Halton (to name but a handful of such figures) are social theorists whose philosophical importance is all too often missed (or ignored) by professional philosophers. The main reason for this is obvious: they are by training and appointment social scientists, while professional philosophy tends to be an insular discipline. Disciplinary purity, like most other forms of this misplaced ideal, tends to insure insularity and vit...
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13The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (4): 625-628. 2006.
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231The Vanishing Subject of Contemporary Discourse: A Pragmatic ResponseJournal of Philosophy 87 (11): 644-655. 1990.
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14Peirce and education: The conflicting processes of learning and discoveryStudies in Philosophy and Education 24 533-535. 2005.
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12Entangling Alliances and Critical Traditions: Reclaiming the Possibilities of CritiqueJournal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (2). 1998.
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: The essay explores how C. S. Peirce, especially in his mature thought, addressed the question of meaning. It underscores how he not only took meaning to be at bottom a function of our habits but also how he conceived these habits themselves to be functions of the histories in which they originate and operate. Hence, what I propose here is this: One of the most fruitful ways to interpret Peirce's own contribution to this question is to see his efforts as carrying forward the impetus intensified…Read more
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