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45A lantern for the feet of inquirers: The heuristic function of the Peircean categoriesSemiotica 2001 (136). 2001.
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19The Critical Appropriation of Our Intellectual Tradition: Toward a Dialogue between Polanyi and LonerganTradition and Discovery 17 (1 & 2): 29-43. 1990.
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39The Task of the Interpreter (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 694-699. 2007.
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Stephen Tyman, "Descrying the Ideal: The Philosophy of John William Miller" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (4): 1033. 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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7Semiotics from Peirce to BarthesNewsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 8-10. 1989.
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9Love 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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14The eclipse of' Piety: Toward a pragmatic overcoming of a theoretical injusticeJournal of Chinese Philosophy 24 (4): 457-482. 1997.
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14Conjectures Concerning an Uncertain Faculty Claimed for HumansSemiotica 2005 (153 - 1/4): 413-430. 2005.
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21Is Peirce's Theory of Signs Truly General?Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 23 (2). 1987.
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76Acknowledgment, Responsibility, and Innovation: A Response to Robert Innis and Walter GulickTradition and Discovery 36 (1): 38-41. 2009.This response affirms the content of the previous two articles but is focused on highlighting some features of Polanyi’s and Langer’s philosophies they do not emphasize. The rise of knowledge and trajectory of meaning Polanyi and Langer describe may be seen as incorporating a complex, innovative process of acknowledgment – of tradition, social norms, previous experience, and personal commitments of which one may not even be aware – for which one is responsible.
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9The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the TranscendentAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (4). 2006.
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20"Philosophical Biography"Semiotics 80 (3): 583-589. 1993.‘Books are the work of solitude, and the children of silence.’ Thus Marcel Proust. The writer is not the same person as the man. The writer, if any good, is a different person, a higher person or at least one who distils something more worthy than is evidenced in the blunderings and fumblings and inadequacies of the everyday character who shares the same skin. This was the basis of Proust's own blistering attack on Sainte-Beuve, to the effect that the critic substituted gossip for criticism and,…Read more
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9Aligning Deweyan Pragmatism and Emersonian Perfectionism: Re-imagining Growth and Educating Grown-UpsJournal of Philosophy of Education 41 (3): 459-469. 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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2The Routes of Significance: Reflections on Peirce's Theory of InterpretantsCognitio 5 (1): 11. 2004.
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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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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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44Testing Our Traditional “Intuitions”Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 265-274. 1999.
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