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John J. Stuhr , "Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 24 (4): 547-562. 1988.
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120A poet's philosopherTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (4). 2009.George Santayana was not only a poet but also a philosopher whose style, concerns, and even positions drew in his own time and continues to draw in ours the attention of poets and, more broadly, literary authors. He was, in short, a poet's philosopher. In so characterizing Santayana, however, there is no slight of his strictly philosophical achievement. The philosophical finesse with which he treated complex topics is, indeed, nowhere more evident than in his rigorous analysis of poetic utteranc…Read more
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16Tradition, 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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37Introduction: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and DiscoveryStudies in Philosophy and Education 24 (3): 167-177. 2005.
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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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16Toward a Fuller Recovery of Living ReasonTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (1). 1995.
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21Experimental logic : Normative theory or natural history?In F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), Dewey's logical theory: new studies and interpretations, Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 43-71. 2002.
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14America’s Philosophical Vision (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (n/a): 355-364. 1993.
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20Confronting the Actuality of History: Re-Interpreting Miller in Light of Douglas Anderson, John E. Smith, and Cushing StroutTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (2). 2004.
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22Let's All Go to the Movies: Two Thumbs up for Hugo Münsterberg's "The Photoplay" (1916)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (4). 2000.
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44The virtues of vagueness and the vagaries of precision: Re-interpreting James and re-orienting philosophyMetaphilosophy 26 (3): 300-312. 1995.
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5C. S. Peirce, 1839–1914In Armen Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: Charles Sanders Peirce ‐ Scientist, Logician, and Philosopher Scientific Intelligence and Theoretical Knowledge Philosophy Within the Limits of Experience Alone The Conduct of Inquiry The Scope of Philosophy The Theory of Signs The Conjecture of a Physicist: Absolute Chance, Brute Reaction, and Evolving Law Conclusion.
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14The Necessity of PragmatismNewsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 5-8. 1989.
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9Conceptual Tension: Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism (edited book)Lexington Books. 2014.Leon J. Goldstein critically examines the philosophical role of concepts and concept formation in the social sciences. The book undertakes a study of concept formation and change by looking at four critical terms in anthropology , politics , and sociology
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54Alston, William P., editor. Realism & Antirealism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+ 303. Paper, $22.50. Aportone, Anselmo, Francesco Aronadio, and Paolo Spinicci. Il problema dell'intuizione: Tre studi su Platone, Kant, e Husserl. Naples: Bibliopolis, 2002. Pp. 196. Paper,€ 20.00. Arrington, Robert L., editor. The World's Great Philosophers. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (3). 2003.
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24Relazione presentata al Seminario di Filosofia Teoretica nella primavera 2015.Given the topic of the given, it would be all too easy to become entangled in highly technical disputes about Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and other authors regarding how to interpret and, then, assess, their critiques of “myth of the given.” Though I am dubious whether we could within the limits of this articlemove toward resolving any of these questions, such an engagement might nonetheless prove profitable. It wo…Read more
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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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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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