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12The Critical Appropriation Of Our Intellectual TraditionTradition and Discovery 17 (1-2): 31-45. 1991.
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History, logic, and meaning : a cautionary tale and a speculative ventureIn Randy Ramal (ed.), Metaphysics, analysis, and the grammar of God: process and analytic voices in dialogue, Mohr Siebeck. 2010.
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8The Weather World of Human ExperienceJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (1): 25-40. 2015.ABSTRACT I consider Chauncey Wright's metaphor of the universe as so much “cosmic weather” and then Tim Ingold's characterization of the terrestrial zone of human existence taking shape as a “weather world.” I also attempt to connect the metaphor at the root of Wright's cosmology with the nuanced account of the weather world at the center of Ingold's anthropology. The upshot is a thoroughly pragmatic understanding of the lifeworld of human beings.
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49A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce (review)The Personalist Forum 15 (2): 437-442. 1999.
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24"Saying," Sounding, and Voicing - Peircean Musings on Musical UnderstandingSemiotics 491-499. 2014.
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16Expression: A Tentative Formulation of an Ontological CategoryRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 53 (4). 1997.
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11Symbols and the Evolution of Mind: susanne langer's final bequest to semioticsSemiotics 23 61. 1999.
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8Charles Sanders PeirceIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Philosopher and Scientist Scientific Intelligence and Theoretical Knowledge Philosophy Within the Limits of Experience Alone The Conduct of Inquiry Clarifying Meaning The Theory of Signs Absolute Chance, Brute Reaction, and Evolving Law.
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25Transforming Philosophy into a ScienceAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2): 245-278. 1998.
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17Creativity and the Philosophy of C.S. PeirceNewsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 10-12. 1989.
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6The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signsSemiotica 2013 (196): 35-56. 2013.Journal Name: Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique Volume: 2013 Issue: 196 Pages: 35-56
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John William Miller, "The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays, The Definition of the Thing with Some Notes on Language, The Philosophy of History with Reflections and Aphorisms, The Midworld of Symbols and Functioning Objects, In Defense of the Psychological" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1 (3): 239. 1987.
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35Moral 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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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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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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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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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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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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