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43Situation, Meaning, and Improvisation: An Aesthetics of Existence in Dewey and FoucaultFoucault Studies 11 20-40. 2011.This essay explores important intersections between the thought of John Dewey and Michel Foucault, with special attention to the distinction between emancipation versus practices of freedom. The complex relationship between these thinkers is, at once, complementary, divergent, and overlapping. The author however stresses the way in which both Dewey and Foucault portray situated subjects as improvisational actors implicated in unique situations, the meaning of which turns on the extemporaneous ex…Read more
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43Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Practical IdentityTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42 (2): 173-205. 2006.The author of this paper explores a central strand in the complex relationship between Peirce and Kant. He argues, against Kant (especially as reconstructed by Christine Korsgaard), that the practical identity of the self-critical agent who undertakes a Critic of reason (as Peirce insisted upon translating this expression) needs to be conceived in substantive, not purely formal, terms. Thus, insofar as there is a reflexive turn in Peirce, it is quite far from the transcendental turn taken by Imm…Read more
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42Varieties of Religion Today (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (1): 156-160. 2007.
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41Peirce'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A Semiotic Perspective on Human SubjectivityState University of New York Press. 1988.Based on a careful study of his unpublished manuscripts as well as his published work, this book explores Peirce's general theory of signs and the way in which Peirce himself used this theory to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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41Bebop as historical actuality, urban aesthetic, and critical utterancePhilosophy and Geography 6 (2). 2003.This paper focuses upon "bebop" as a distinctively urban movement for the purpose of contributing to the articulation of a distinctively urban aesthetics. The author examines both how the music was taken up in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago, and in turn how an urban sensibility was expressed in this particular movement.
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41The virtues of vagueness and the vagaries of precision: Re-interpreting James and re-orienting philosophyMetaphilosophy 26 (3): 300-312. 1995.
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40Customary reflection and innovative habitsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 25 (2): 161-173. 2011.The most effective—indeed, the only—way to make the future different from the past is, in the judgment of pragmatists such as William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead, to remake the present. As Dewey notes, "present activity" is the only phase of human conduct really under our control (MW 14.184). 1 For just this reason, we must be mindful of the past and solicitous about the future as well as attuned to the present: "Memory of the past, observation of the present, foresight of the fut…Read more
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40The Critical Appropriation Of Our Intellectual TraditionTradition and Discovery 17 (1-2): 31-45. 1991.
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39John P. Murphy, "Pragmatism: From Peirce to Davidson" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (4): 625. 1992.
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39Charles Peirce’s Pragmatic Pluralism (review)International Studies in Philosophy 30 (4): 140-141. 1998.
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39The Task of the Interpreter (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 694-699. 2007.
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37Peirce as a WriterPhilosophy and Literature 43 (2): 384-410. 2019.C. S. Peirce’s writings are instructive in a number of ways, not least of all for how they, in part despite themselves, assist us in conceiving what he was so strongly disposed to disparage, literary discourse. He possessed greater linguistic facility and deeper literary sensibility than he appreciated, though a militantly polemical identity helped to insure he left this facility undeveloped and this sensibility unacknowledged.2 For this and other reasons, a study of Peirce as a writer is worthw…Read more
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36Introduction: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and DiscoveryStudies in Philosophy and Education 24 (3): 167-177. 2005.
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36Tradition, Dialectic, and IdeologyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (2): 253-266. 2006.The task of philosophy is examined in reference to the actual circumstances of academic philosophy, principally in the United States. The author challenges the still prevalent tendency to conceive academic philosophy as an affair split into two camps—most often identified as analytic and Continental philosophy. Moreover, he proposes a distinctive understanding of the dialectical approach to philosophical query, one attuned to the traditional character of the relevant alternatives and also to the…Read more
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35Telling 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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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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33Inwardness and Autonomy: A Neglected Aspect of Peirce's Approach to MindTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21 (4). 1985.
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33Carl R. Hausman, "Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Epistemology" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4): 682. 1994.
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32Notes for a Sketch of a Peircean Theory of the UnconsciousTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (3). 1995.
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32Doing — and Undoing — the Done Thing: Dewey and Bourdieu on Habituation, Agency, and TransformationContemporary Pragmatism 1 (2): 65-93. 2004.Both Dewey and Bourdieu emphasize the extent to which human practices are inherited practices, and the extent to which inheritance is a function of imitation. Affinities between Dewey's concept of habit and Bourdieu's notion of habitus are explored. This essay focuses on four variations on the theme of doing the done thing: philosophers doing philosophy in a recognizable form , nations perpetuating war as the unwitting enactment of a repetition compulsion, cultures fostering such democratic prac…Read more
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32John 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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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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31The Tones, Tints, and Textures of Temporality: Toward a Reconstruction of Peirce's Philosophy of TimeRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 72 (3): 435-453. 2017.
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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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30Toward a More Comprehensive Conception of Human ReasonInternational Philosophical Quarterly 27 (3): 281-298. 1987.
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