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32Peircean Semeiotic and Legal Practices: Rudimentary and “Rhetorical” Considerations (review)International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 21 (3): 223-246. 2008.Too often C. S. Peirce’s theory of signs is used simply as a classificatory scheme rather than primarily as a heuristic framework (that is, a framework designed and modified primarily for the purpose of goading and guiding inquiry in any field in which signifying processes or practices are present). Such deployment of his semeiotic betrays the letter no less than the spirit of Peirce’s writings on signs. In this essay, the author accordingly presents Peirce’s sign theory as a heuristic framework…Read more
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20America’s Philosophical Vision (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (3): 355-364. 1993.
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The Dynamical Object and the Deliberative SubjectIn Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce, University of Toronto Press. pp. 262-288. 1997.
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26Intellectual Passions, Heuristic Virtues, and Shared PracticesTradition and Discovery 38 (3): 51-66. 2011.The central preoccupation of Peirce and Polanyi was to undertake (in the words of the former) an inquiry into inquiry, one in which the defining features of our heuristic practices stood out in bold relief. But both thinkers were also concerned to bring into sharp focus the deep affinities between our theoretical pursuits and other shared practices. They were in effect sketching a portrait of the responsible inquirer and, by implication, that of the responsible agent more generally. This essay i…Read more
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34William James’s Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 25 (78): 25-29. 1997.
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17Aligning Deweyan pragmatism and Emersonian perfectionism: Re-imagining growth and educating grown-upsJournal of Philosophy of Education 41 (3). 2007.This essay examines in detail the triangulated conversation Naoko Saito constructs, in The Gleam of Light, among the voices of R. W. Emerson, John Dewey and Stanley Cavell. The pivot around which everything turns is the Emersonian ideal of moral perfectionism and, in particular, the implications of this ideal for the philosophy of education. As explicated by Cavell, this ideal concerns ‘the dimension of moral thought directed less to restraining the bad than to releasing the good’. For the consc…Read more
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33Toward a More Comprehensive Conception of Human ReasonInternational Philosophical Quarterly 27 (3): 281-298. 1987.
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12Gestures Historical and Incomplete, Critical yet FriendlyEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 8 (1). 2016.“Thought requires achievement for its own development, and without this development it is nothing. Thought must live and grow in incessant new and higher translations, or it proves itself not to be genuine thought.” – C. S. Peirce (CP 5.595) Introduction: Captivating Pictures and Liberating Gestures At the center of one of the most famous anecdotes involving a famous philosopher, we encounter what is commonly called in English a gesture, in fact, a Neapolitan gesture, though one made by a Tur...
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6The Task of the Interpreter (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 694-699. 2007.
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42Peirce's Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective on Human SubjectivityState University of New York Press. 1988.Based on a careful study of his unpublished manuscripts as well as his published work, this book explores Peirce's general theory of signs and the way in which Peirce himself used this theory to understand subjectivity.
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31Cultivating the Arts of Inquiry, Interpretation, and Criticism: A Peircean Approach to our Educational PracticesStudies in Philosophy and Education 24 (3): 337-366. 2005.Peirce was a thinker who claimed that his mind had been thoroughly formed by his rigorous training in the natural sciences. But he was also the author who proclaimed that nothing is truer than true poetry. In making the case for Peirce’s relevance to issues of education, then, it is necessary to do justice to the multifaceted character of his philosophical genius, in particular, to the experimentalist cast of his mind and his profound appreciation for the aesthetic, the imaginative, and (more na…Read more
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10Rockmore, Tom, and Beth J. Singer, "Antifoundationalism Old and New" (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (n/a): 251-254. 1993.
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10Charles Peirce’s Pragmatic Pluralism (review)International Studies in Philosophy 30 (4): 140-141. 1998.
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6Literary Forms, Heuristic Functions, and Philosophical FixationsOverheard in Seville 31 (31): 5-19. 2013.
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16Reason, Conflict, and Violence: John William Miller's Conception of PhilosophyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (2). 1989.
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47Bebop as historical actuality, urban aesthetic, and critical utterancePhilosophy and Geography 6 (2). 2003.This paper focuses upon "bebop" as a distinctively urban movement for the purpose of contributing to the articulation of a distinctively urban aesthetics. The author examines both how the music was taken up in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago, and in turn how an urban sensibility was expressed in this particular movement.
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29Jazz as Metaphor, Philosophy as JazzIn Cornelis De Waal & Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (eds.), The normative thought of Charles S. Peirce, Fordham University Press. pp. 1. 2012.
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47A lantern for the feet of inquirers: The heuristic function of the Peircean categoriesSemiotica 2001 (136). 2001.
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19The Critical Appropriation of Our Intellectual Tradition: Toward a Dialogue between Polanyi and LonerganTradition and Discovery 17 (1 & 2): 29-43. 1990.
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21"Tell Your Friend Giuliano . . .": Jamesian Enthusiasms and Peircean ReservationsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (4). 1994.
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Stephen Tyman, "Descrying the Ideal: The Philosophy of John William Miller" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (4): 1033. 1994.
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