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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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40The 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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24"Saying," Sounding, and Voicing - Peircean Musings on Musical UnderstandingSemiotics 491-499. 2014.
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15Expression: 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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7Charles Sanders PeirceIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, 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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43Transforming Philosophy into a ScienceAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2): 245-278. 1998.
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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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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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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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31Peircean 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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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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108Intellectual 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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