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    America’s Philosophical Vision (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (3): 355-364. 1993.
  •  48
    C. S. Peirce, 1839–1914
    In 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.
  • : 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
  •  46
    Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1): 132-136. 1992.
  •  47
    A Revised Portrait of Human Agency
    European 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...
  •  115
    Testing Our Traditional “Intuitions”
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 265-274. 1999.
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    Review of Miller's five books (review)
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1 (3): 239-256. 1987.
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    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
  •  70
    The Historical Past and the Dramatic Present
    European 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...
  •  96
    Peircean 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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    The Critical Appropriation Of Our Intellectual Tradition
    Tradition and Discovery 17 (1-2): 31-45. 1991.
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    Experience ceded and negated
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 22 (2). 2008.
  •  77
    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.
  •  81
    To the Signs Themselves
    Semiotics 377-388. 1999.
  •  43
    Creativity and the Philosophy of C.S. Peirce
    Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 10-12. 1989.
  •  27
    The Reconstruction of Institutions
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 4 (3): 237-248. 1990.
  •  66
    The Nature of Rationality (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (4): 491-494. 1995.
  • Index to Volume 12
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (4). 1998.
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    Reason, Conflict, and Violence: John William Miller's Conception of Philosophy
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (2): 175-190. 1989.
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    The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (4): 625-628. 2006.