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14Time as Experience/Experience as TemporalityEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 5 (1). 2013.The characteristic form of human action is an extemporaneous performance or improvisational exertion. An ordinary conversation (what C. S. Peirce calls “a wonderfully perfect kind of sign-functioning” [EP 2: 391]) provides us with an extremely useful model for understanding other forms of “unrehearsed intellectual adventure” (Oakeshott 1991: 490), not least of all jazz improvisation. But since our inquiry into this range of considerations turns on appealing to our experience as improvisational a…Read more
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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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14What, After All, Is the Work of Culture?Metaphilosophy 52 (1): 27-48. 2021.This paper offers an overview of Joseph Margolis’s philosophy of culture, highlighting how Margolis’s radical historicism is not inconsistent with our realistic intuitions regrading facts and objectivity. While Margolis identifies interpretation as the work of culture, the paper suggests that a much more basic sense of human labor needs to be thematized more fully than Margolis does in any defensible account of culture. Margolis of course appreciates work in this sense, but he does not consisten…Read more
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14Despairing of Despair, Living for Today and the Day after Tomorrow: Reflections on Naoko Saito's American Philosophy in TranslationThe Pluralist 17 (1): 104-111. 2022.[W]e might despair of despair itself, rather than of life, and cast that off, and begin, and so reverse our direction.This is a finely conceived, elegantly written, and exquisitely executed work. At its center, there is Naoko Saito ’s creative appropriation of one of Cavell’s most fecund suggestions—philosophy is first and foremost an activity and, as such, it is either akin to or, more strongly, identifiable with practices of translation.1 Everything I have to say concerns translation, if only …Read more
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14Peirce and education: The conflicting processes of learning and discoveryStudies in Philosophy and Education 24 533-535. 2005.
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13The 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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12C. S. Peirce and Josiah Royce: Understanding, self-understanding, and self-misunderstandingCognitio 20 (2): 259-285. 2020.No âmago deste artigo há uma comparação entre a investigação sobre o entendimento de Peirce o relato de interpretação de Royce. Estrutura-se por uma consideração do desentendimento de si e, ligada a esta discussão do desentendimento de si, uma consideração sobre o próprio entendimento. Para Peirce, em razão de sua abordagem da investigação e Royce em sua meta-interpretação alguma forma de entendimento está em jogo. Por exemplo, a tarefa do investigador científico é inacabada se ela para na desco…Read more
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12Qualities, Qualisigns, and the Shifting Boundary Between Immediacy and MediationSemiotics 1-13. 2013.
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12Qualitative Immediacy and Mediating Qualities: Reflections on Firstness as More Than a CategorySemiotics 2018 173-186. 2018.
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12Entangling Alliances and Critical Traditions: Reclaiming the Possibilities of CritiqueJournal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (2). 1998.
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11C. S. Peirce's Rhetorical TurnTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (1): 16-52. 2007.While the work of such expositors as Max H. Fisch, James J. Liszka, Lucia Santaella, Anne Friedman, and Mats Bergman has helped bring into sharp focus why Peirce took the third branch of semiotic (speculative rhetoric) to be "the highest and most living branch of logic," more needs to be done to show the extent to which the least developed branch of his theory of signs is, at once, its potentially most fruitful and important. The author of this paper thus begins to trace out even more fully than…Read more
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11Symbols and the Evolution of Mind: susanne langer's final bequest to semioticsSemiotics 23 61. 1999.
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11Gestures Historical and Incomplete, Critical yet FriendlyEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 8 (1). 2016.“Thought requires achievement for its own development, and without this development it is nothing. Thought must live and grow in incessant new and higher translations, or it proves itself not to be genuine thought.” – C. S. Peirce (CP 5.595) Introduction: Captivating Pictures and Liberating Gestures At the center of one of the most famous anecdotes involving a famous philosopher, we encounter what is commonly called in English a gesture, in fact, a Neapolitan gesture, though one made by a Tur...
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11Toward a Pragmatist Account of Human PracticesNóema 13 1-24. 2022.Questo articolo si sofferma su una curiosa lacuna nella tradizione pragmatista. Negli scritti dei pragmatisti americani classici (Peirce, James, Dewey, Mead e Lewis) pochissima attenzione è dedicata all'articolazione di una concezione delle pratiche e, più in generale, dei _pragmata_. L'autore offre uno schizzo di quella che egli ritiene essere una descrizione pragmatista delle pratiche umane. Sottolinea come per i pragmatisti stessi la teoria sia una pratica o, più precisamente, una famiglia al…Read more
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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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11The 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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11Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 122-124. 2002.
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11Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists: Experience and Reality (edited book)Lexington Books. 2015.This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists
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10The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the TranscendentAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (4). 2006.
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10Aligning 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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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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