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    Conjectures Concerning an Uncertain Faculty Claimed for Humans
    Semiotica 2005 (153 - 1/4): 413-430. 2005.
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    [W]e might despair of despair itself, rather than of life, and cast that off, and begin, and so reverse our direction.This is a finely conceived, elegantly written, and exquisitely executed work. At its center, there is Naoko Saito ’s creative appropriation of one of Cavell’s most fecund suggestions—philosophy is first and foremost an activity and, as such, it is either akin to or, more strongly, identifiable with practices of translation.1 Everything I have to say concerns translation, if only …Read more
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    The Actuality of Philosophy Thought Over Once Again
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32 (1): 3-20. 2018.
    ABSTRACT This article elaborates a deceptively simple suggestion made by Hegel. It relates Hegel's suggestion above all to Dewey's stress on looking back, looking around, and looking ahead. In this endeavor the article touches upon two seemingly contradictory facets of philosophical thought—the autonomy and heteronomy of such thought. To a greater extent, however, the article focuses on the dramatic character of philosophical efforts to think things over, once again. The drive to think things ov…Read more
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    Reading as Experience
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (4). 1998.
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    The Nature of Rationality
    International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (4): 491-494. 1995.
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    The 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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    John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought. In this study, Vincent Colapietro situates Miller's powerful but neglected corpus not only in reference to Continental European philosophy but also to paradigmatic figures in American culture like Lincoln, Emerson, Thoreau, and James.
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    The Necessity of Pragmatism
    Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 5-8. 1989.
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    Gestures Historical and Incomplete, Critical yet Friendly
    European 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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    Mediation, Continuity, and Encounter: Introducing Peirce with de Tocqueville and Dewey
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2): 191-195. 2008.
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    The Historical Past and the Dramatic Present
    European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 8 (2). 2016.
    “The stone the builders rejected has become the head of the corner[stone].” Max H. Fisch Introduction: An Exemplary Engagement with Intellectual History The aim of this paper is to show the depth to which C. S. Peirce, as a philosopher, was guided by his engagement with history and to clarify pragmatically what history means in this connection. This engagement prompted him to do original historical research and also reflect on historiographical practices. This work was truly exemplary. While...
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    Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 122-124. 2002.
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    No âmago deste artigo há uma comparação entre a investigação sobre o entendimento de Peirce o relato de interpretação de Royce. Estrutura-se por uma consideração do desentendimento de si e, ligada a esta discussão do desentendimento de si, uma consideração sobre o próprio entendimento. Para Peirce, em razão de sua abordagem da investigação e Royce em sua meta-interpretação alguma forma de entendimento está em jogo. Por exemplo, a tarefa do investigador científico é inacabada se ela para na desco…Read more
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    Human Agency: The Habits of Our Being
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 153-168. 1988.
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    C. S. Peirce's Rhetorical Turn
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (1): 16-52. 2007.
    While the work of such expositors as Max H. Fisch, James J. Liszka, Lucia Santaella, Anne Friedman, and Mats Bergman has helped bring into sharp focus why Peirce took the third branch of semiotic (speculative rhetoric) to be "the highest and most living branch of logic," more needs to be done to show the extent to which the least developed branch of his theory of signs is, at once, its potentially most fruitful and important. The author of this paper thus begins to trace out even more fully than…Read more
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    Questo articolo si sofferma su una curiosa lacuna nella tradizione pragmatista. Negli scritti dei pragmatisti americani classici (Peirce, James, Dewey, Mead e Lewis) pochissima attenzione è dedicata all'articolazione di una concezione delle pratiche e, più in generale, dei _pragmata_. L'autore offre uno schizzo di quella che egli ritiene essere una descrizione pragmatista delle pratiche umane. Sottolinea come per i pragmatisti stessi la teoria sia una pratica o, più precisamente, una famiglia al…Read more
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    Qualitative Immediacy and Mediating Qualities
    Semiotics 173-186. forthcoming.
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    Introduction
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2): 143-163. 1998.
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    Love and Death—and Other Somatic Transactions
    Hypatia 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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