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45Customary 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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44Testing Our Traditional “Intuitions”Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 265-274. 1999.
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11Mediation, Continuity, and Encounter: Introducing Peirce with de Tocqueville and DeweyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2): 191-195. 2008.
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12The Historical Past and the Dramatic PresentEuropean 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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James Hoopes, "Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 26 (4): 530. 1990.
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15IntroductionSemiotica 2013 (196): 1-11. 2013.Journal Name: Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique Volume: 2013 Issue: 196 Pages: 1-11
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Robert C. Neville, New Essays in Metaphysics (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 4 (1): 97. 1990.
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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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42Varieties of Religion Today (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (1): 156-160. 2007.
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57Purpose, Power, and AgencyThe Monist 75 (4): 423-444. 1992.There are various reasons for taking a second look at anything at all. One reason is to discern aspects which have been overlooked; another frequently related reason is to reappraise the value or relevance of whatever is being reconsidered. A thing might be deemed worthless or negligible because some feature or set of features has been overlooked. And this way of conceiving the thing might become so familiar, so entrenched, that it powerfully, because subtly, works against alternative conception…Read more
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Allowing our practices to speak for themselves : Wittgenstein, Peirce, and their intersecting lineagesIn Rosa Maria Calcaterra (ed.), New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy, Editions Rodopi. 2011.
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66Striving to Speak in a Human VoiceReview of Metaphysics 58 (2): 367-398. 2004.A. N. WHITEHEAD SUGGESTS philosophy is akin to poetry. Let me count the ways or, more exactly, identify four facets of this kinship. After touching upon these facets, I will in the second part of this paper focus directly on the relationship between being and articulation, regardless of the form in which being comes to expression. Then, in the third section, I offer Charles S. Peirce’s categoreal scheme as a compelling articulation of what are, arguably, the most ubiquitous and indeed basic feat…Read more
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35Experiments in Self-Interruption: A Defining Activity of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Other Erotic PracticesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (2): 128-143. 2016.“The world is,” William James notes, “full of partial stories that run parallel to one another, beginning and ending at odd times. They mutually interlace and interfere at points, but we cannot unify them completely in our minds”. As a radical empiricist, he takes there to be more to experience than any of our stories or other forms of account can ever capture. Here as everywhere else, “ever not quite” and “ever not yet” qualify even our master strokes. As a radical pluralist, accordingly, he ta…Read more
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29Telling 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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64Present 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
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Charles Sanders Peirce., 1903 Harvard Lectures onIn 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.
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6Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 122-124. 2002.
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75Neglected Facets of Peirce's 'Speculative' RhetoricEducational Philosophy and Theory 45 (7): 712-736. 2013.
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9Semiotics from Peirce to Barthes (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 8-10. 1989.
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C.J.W. Kloesel , "Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A chronological edition", Vol. 4 (review)Man and World 24 (2): 235. 1991.
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29Love and Death—and Other Somatic TransactionsHypatia 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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76The Question of Voice and the Limits of Pragmatism: Emerson, Dewey, and CavellMetaphilosophy 35 (1-2): 178-201. 2004.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
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5The 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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