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28Experiments 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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28Moral 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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28Jazz 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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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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27Toward a More Comprehensive Conception of Human ReasonInternational Philosophical Quarterly 27 (3): 281-298. 1987.
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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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26Peircean 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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25Love 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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24Love 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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24John Dewey’s Radical TemporalismPhilosophies 8 (3): 45. 2023.The author presents John Dewey’s mature account of temporal continuity, showing how Dewey’s position can be identified as a form of radical temporalism. Even at the most elemental level (that of subatomic particles), natural existence is for such a temporalist an irreducibly temporal affair. While he focuses primarily on Dewey’s “Time and Individuality” (1940), the author supplements his account by drawing upon Experience and Nature (1925), “Events and the Future” (1926), and to a lesser extent,…Read more
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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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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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22"Saying," Sounding, and Voicing - Peircean Musings on Musical UnderstandingSemiotics 491-499. 2014.
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22Actuality 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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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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21Relazione 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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21William James's Pragmatic Commitment to Absolute TruthSouthern Journal of Philosophy 24 (2): 189-200. 1986.
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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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20Experimental 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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