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    Present at the end?: Who will be there when the last stone is thrown?
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (1): 9-20. 2010.
    From time to time, Peter H. Hare emphatically reminded me he was drawn to William James as a philosopher, not just a stylist. While Peter1 was throughout his life appreciative of James's efforts to articulate an ethics of belief (see, e.g., Hare 2003), he was skeptical of them in the context of religion. He felt compelled to hound the gods and their defenders (Hare and Madden 1969). Even so, the ethics of belief outlined and partly filled in by James provided Peter with crucial insights for deve…Read more
  •  6
    Semiotics from Peirce to Barthes (review)
    Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 8-10. 1989.
  • Charles Sanders Peirce., 1903 Harvard Lectures on
    In 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.
  •  11
    Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 122-124. 2002.
  •  13
    The Nature of Rationality
    International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (4): 491-494. 1995.
  •  26
    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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    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
  •  6
    A Revised Portrait of Human Agency
    European 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...
  •  13
    The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (4): 625-628. 2006.
  • Index to Volume 12
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (4). 1998.
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    Woolf on Words
    Semiotics 108-116. 2000.
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    American Evasions of Foucault
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 36 (3): 329-351. 1998.
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    Time and Reality in American Philosophy (review)
    Process Studies 16 (4): 306-309. 1987.
  •  11
    Human Agency: The Habits of Our Being
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 153-168. 1988.
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    The Vanishing Subject of Contemporary Discourse: A Pragmatic Response
    Journal of Philosophy 87 (11): 644-655. 1990.
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    Speculative Pragmatism
    International Philosophical Quarterly 30 (3): 373-375. 1990.
  • : 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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    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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    Testing Our Traditional “Intuitions”
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 265-274. 1999.
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  • Book Review (review)
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1 239-256. 1987.
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    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