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86America’s Philosophical Vision (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (3): 355-364. 1993.
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48C. S. Peirce, 1839–1914In Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.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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: The essay explores how C. S. Peirce, especially in his mature thought, addressed the question of meaning. It underscores how he not only took meaning to be at bottom a function of our habits but also how he conceived these habits themselves to be functions of the histories in which they originate and operate. Hence, what I propose here is this: One of the most fruitful ways to interpret Peirce's own contribution to this question is to see his efforts as carrying forward the impetus intensified…Read more
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46Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1): 132-136. 1992.
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47A Revised Portrait of Human AgencyEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 1 (1): 2-24. 2009.Anthony Giddens, Hans Joas, Margaret Archer, Norbert Wiley, and Eugene Halton (to name but a handful of such figures) are social theorists whose philosophical importance is all too often missed (or ignored) by professional philosophers. The main reason for this is obvious: they are by training and appointment social scientists, while professional philosophy tends to be an insular discipline. Disciplinary purity, like most other forms of this misplaced ideal, tends to insure insularity and vit...
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115Testing Our Traditional “Intuitions”Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 265-274. 1999.
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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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101Aligning 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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70The 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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66Inwardness and Autonomy: A Neglected Aspect of Peirce's Approach to MindTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21 (4): 485-512. 1985.
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47The eclipse of' Piety: Toward a pragmatic overcoming of a theoretical injusticeJournal of Chinese Philosophy 24 (4): 457-482. 1997.
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96Peircean 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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98The Critical Appropriation Of Our Intellectual TraditionTradition and Discovery 17 (1-2): 31-45. 1991.
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77Peirce'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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86"Saying," Sounding, and Voicing - Peircean Musings on Musical UnderstandingSemiotics 491-499. 2014.
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43Creativity 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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51Literary Forms, Heuristic Functions, and Philosophical FixationsOverheard in Seville 31 (31): 5-19. 2013.
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52Signs and their vicissitudes: Meanings in excess of consciousness and functionalitySemiotica 2004 (148). 2004.
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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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53Reason, Conflict, and Violence: John William Miller's Conception of PhilosophyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (2): 175-190. 1989.
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80The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (4): 625-628. 2006.
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