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30Rockmore, Tom, and Beth J. Singer, "Antifoundationalism Old and New" (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (n/a): 251-254. 1993.
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30Experiments in Self-Interruption: A Defining Activity of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Other Erotic PracticesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (2): 128-143. 2016.“The world is,” William James notes, “full of partial stories that run parallel to one another, beginning and ending at odd times. They mutually interlace and interfere at points, but we cannot unify them completely in our minds”. As a radical empiricist, he takes there to be more to experience than any of our stories or other forms of account can ever capture. Here as everywhere else, “ever not quite” and “ever not yet” qualify even our master strokes. As a radical pluralist, accordingly, he ta…Read more
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30Moral deliberation and operative rights: A response to Mary magada-ward and Cynthia gaymanMetaphilosophy 38 (4): 440-455. 2007.The aim of this article is to show how intimately connected Beth J. Singer's theory of operative rights is with her understanding of the deliberative process. I thus argue against Cynthia Gayman's effort to set in contrast Singer's theory of rights and Dewey's characteristic emphasis on reflective morality. Since I take the value of Singer's approach to be most evident in its relevance to the abortion debate as an ongoing deliberation, I question whether Mary Magada‐Ward sufficiently appreciates…Read more
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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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29The «inner» life of the social self: agency, sociality, and reflexivityNóema 4 (1): 2-12. 2013.Questo saggio offre un ritratto pragmatista del sé e dunque una descrizione che parte dalla premessa per cui il sé è anzitutto un attore sociale incarnato, situato, che possiede la capacità di un’effettiva autocritica. Così, oltre a evidenziare il ruolo dell’azione, l’autore sottolinea anche quello della socialità e della riflessività. A differenza di molti ritratti abbozzati da altri autori pragmatisti, quello presente cerca di rendere una più completa giustizia alla dimensione «interiore» dell…Read more
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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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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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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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26Review of Michael Weston, Philosophy, Literature, and the Human Good (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (2). 2002.
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24An “Historicist” Reading of Peirce's Pragmatist Semeiotic: A Pivotal Maxim and Evolving PracticesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 56 (3): 374-399. 2020.ARRAY.
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24Relazione presentata al Seminario di Filosofia Teoretica nella primavera 2015.Given the topic of the given, it would be all too easy to become entangled in highly technical disputes about Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and other authors regarding how to interpret and, then, assess, their critiques of “myth of the given.” Though I am dubious whether we could within the limits of this articlemove toward resolving any of these questions, such an engagement might nonetheless prove profitable. It wo…Read more
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24"Saying," Sounding, and Voicing - Peircean Musings on Musical UnderstandingSemiotics 491-499. 2014.
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23Actuality and IntelligibilityEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 10 (2). 2018.Expressed in terms of his categories, Peirce criticized Hegel for having overlooked secondness, “not mere twoness [or duality] but active oppugnancy” (CP 8.291; emphasis omitted), “the sense of shock,” surprise, and especially struggle and conflict (CP 5.45). In particular, he judged his predecessor harshly for having neglected or, at least, downplayed the role secondness, especially in the form of experience, plays in the growth of knowledge. In Peirce’s judgment, then, Hegel’s emphasis on thir…Read more
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23Emersonian Moods, Peircean Sentiments, and Ellingtonian TonesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (2): 178-199. 2019.ABSTRACT This article is an exploration of certain central features of the affective dimension of human lives. It moves from a consideration of moods, especially as these feature into several of Emerson's essays, to a consideration of sentiments, as they are treated by Peirce, and concludes with tones. At the center of this article, there is an attempt to bring into focus some of the most important connections among moods, sentiments, and tones. The ephemeral and variable character of moods is c…Read more
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22Let's All Go to the Movies: Two Thumbs up for Hugo Münsterberg's "The Photoplay" (1916)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (4). 2000.
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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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21Is Peirce's Theory of Signs Truly General?Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 23 (2). 1987.
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21William James's Pragmatic Commitment to Absolute TruthSouthern Journal of Philosophy 24 (2): 189-200. 1986.
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21Experimental logic : Normative theory or natural history?In F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), Dewey's logical theory: new studies and interpretations, Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 43-71. 2002.
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20"Philosophical Biography"Semiotics 80 (3): 583-589. 1993.‘Books are the work of solitude, and the children of silence.’ Thus Marcel Proust. The writer is not the same person as the man. The writer, if any good, is a different person, a higher person or at least one who distils something more worthy than is evidenced in the blunderings and fumblings and inadequacies of the everyday character who shares the same skin. This was the basis of Proust's own blistering attack on Sainte-Beuve, to the effect that the critic substituted gossip for criticism and,…Read more
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