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9Literary Forms, Heuristic Functions, and Philosophical FixationsOverheard in Seville 31 (31): 5-19. 2013.
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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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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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8Rhetoric revisited, methodeutic re-imaginedCognitio 23 (1): 59812-59812. 2022.The author contextualizes C. S. Peirce’s exploration of rhetoric and methodeutic in reference to the inevitably incomplete work of a radical experimentalist such as Peirce. He tries to show how even in the inaugural stage of semeiotic inquiry “rhetorical” considerations are not entirely absent. Moreover, he attends to some of the most important moments when Peirce re-visited the topic of rhetoric. Finally, he muses about both how Peirce re-imagined rhetoric as methodeutic and how we might oursel…Read more
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8Experience, interpretation, and community: themes in John E. Smith's reconstruction of philosophy (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.No philosopher in the second half of the twentieth century or the opening decade of the twenty-first did more to recover the voice of philosophy in the conversation of humankind than John Edwin Smith. From The Social Infinite, his landmark study of Josiah Royce, to "Niebuhr's Prophetic Voice", he has shown in compelling detail how philosophical reflection is relevant to contemporary life. Indeed, virtually all of the eventual developments within contemporary philosophy in recent decades worthy o…Read more
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8Quotidian Tasks: Habits, Routines, and RitualsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (4): 491-516. 2022.ABSTRACT The author frames his exploration in terms of Michel Foucault’s distinction between the practice of emancipation in the strict sense and practices of freedom. He proposes to treat rituals of attention as examples of practices of freedom. Before doing so, however, he considers the socioeconomic contexts in which such rituals must be situated. Then, he sketches what such rituals involve. In a sense, this article is a reflection on a claim put forth by one of the characters in Toni Morriso…Read more
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8Peirce's Doctrine of Signs: Theory, Applications, and Connections (edited book)De Gruyter Mouton. 1996.
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7Toward a pragmatic clarification of materiality and animacy: the materials of life and the life of those materialsCognitio 20 (1): 31-47. 2019.A materialidade, ou o que alguns teóricos preferem identificar como materiais, vem sendo cada vez mais assunto de discussão e investigação. Embora esses autores sejam muito cuidadosos em especificar o que querem dizer com tais termos, o assunto exige maior esclarecimento do que recebera até agora. Isso faz com que seja um candidato ideal para o tríplice-escalonado esclarecimento proposto por C. S. Peirce em “Como tornar nossas ideias claras” e que daí em diante foi utilizado por ele para, diante…Read more
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7Charles Sanders PeirceIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Philosopher and Scientist Scientific Intelligence and Theoretical Knowledge Philosophy Within the Limits of Experience Alone The Conduct of Inquiry Clarifying Meaning The Theory of Signs Absolute Chance, Brute Reaction, and Evolving Law.
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7Philosophical Biography: Preliminary Reflections on a Distinctive Form of Historical InquirySemiotics 583-589. 1993.
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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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7Human Emotions and Fallible JudgmentsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 35 (3): 289-303. 2021.The author argues that Peirce, James, and Dewey propose a version of emotional cognitivism. He goes on to highlight certain features of human emotions, conceived in this light, above all emotional reflexivity. Given the highly fallible character of our emotional judgments, the reference to the “I,” in addition to that to the object, can hardly be overlooked. Deliberative agents are wise to confess, “I am angry,” without eliminating what James identifies as “the intensely objective reference” of …Read more
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7Marking Distinctions and Making Differences: Being as DialecticJournal of Speculative Philosophy 10 (1). 1996.
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7Experience, interpretation, and community: themes in John E. Smith's reconstruction of philosophy (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.No philosopher in the second half of the twentieth century or the opening decade of the twenty-first did more to recover the voice of philosophy in the conversation of humankind than John Edwin Smith (1921-2009). From The Social Infinite (1950), his landmark study of Josiah Royce, to "Niebuhr's Prophetic Voice" (2009), he has shown in compelling detail how philosophical reflection is relevant to contemporary life. Indeed, virtually all of the eventual developments within contemporary philosophy …Read more
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6The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signsSemiotica 2013 (196): 35-56. 2013.Journal Name: Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique Volume: 2013 Issue: 196 Pages: 35-56
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6The Task of the Interpreter (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 694-699. 2007.
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6Semiotics from Peirce to Barthes (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 8-10. 1989.
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6A 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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6Testing Our Traditional “Intuitions”Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 265-274. 1999.
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5C. S. Peirce, 1839–1914In Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, 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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41. Traditions of Innovation and Improvisation: Jazz as Metaphor, Philosophy as JazzIn Cornelis De Waal & Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (eds.), The normative thought of Charles S. Peirce, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-25. 2012.
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4Peirce’s pragmatist portrait of deliberative rationalityCognitio 18 (1): 13. 2017.Meu propósito abrangente é oferecer um esboço pragmatista da racionalidade deliberativa derivada dos textos coligidos no volumoso conjunto de C. S. Peirce. Embora em alguns casos, as formulações sejam minhas, e não de Peirce. Porém, isso não torna meu esforço um caso de ventriloquismo : a posição em relação à racionalidade é dele, e não minha. Minha tese é que, para Peirce, a razão é no fundo, um conjunto mais ou menos integrado de hábitos, possibilitando aos agentes serem deliberativos. Ou seja…Read more
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41. Tradition: First Steps Toward a Pragmaticistic ClarificationIn Richard E. Hart & Douglas R. Anderson (eds.), Philosophy in experience: American philosophy in transition, Fordham University Press. pp. 13-46. 1997.
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4Aligning 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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3Peirce como leitor & leitura como devaneioCognitio 19 (1): 56-76. 2018.Investigadores científicos no sentido moderno, aqueles pensadores com os quais C.S. Peirce identificava-se mais profundamente, “têm sido bem-sucedidos pois eles passaram suas vidas não em suas bibliotecas ou museus, mas em seus laboratórios e no campo”. De fato, Peirce gastou incontáveis horas envolvido em uma atividade na qual ele parece menosprezar nesta e em outras passagens. Aliás, ele parece ter interpretado incorretamente sua vida como leitor. O autor oferece um retrato de Peirce como leit…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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