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35Telling Tales Out of School: Pragmatic Reflections on Philosophical StorytellingJournal of Speculative Philosophy 27 (1): 1-32. 2013.ABSTRACT This article offers a critique of a deeply engrained tendency to narrate the story of American pragmatism exclusively or primarily in terms of modern European philosophy. While it suggests alternative stories, it is principally a metanarrative, an intentionally polemical story about our entrenched habits of philosophical storytelling. Indeed, the pragmatics of storytelling merits, especially in reference to historical accounts of American pragmatism, critical attention. The seemingly si…Read more
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18America’s Philosophical Vision (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (n/a): 355-364. 1993.
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20Confronting the Actuality of History: Re-Interpreting Miller in Light of Douglas Anderson, John E. Smith, and Cushing StroutTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (2). 2004.
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41The virtues of vagueness and the vagaries of precision: Re-interpreting James and re-orienting philosophyMetaphilosophy 26 (3): 300-312. 1995.
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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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14The Necessity of PragmatismNewsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17 (54): 5-8. 1989.
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22Let's All Go to the Movies: Two Thumbs up for Hugo Münsterberg's "The Photoplay" (1916)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (4). 2000.
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54Alston, William P., editor. Realism & Antirealism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+ 303. Paper, $22.50. Aportone, Anselmo, Francesco Aronadio, and Paolo Spinicci. Il problema dell'intuizione: Tre studi su Platone, Kant, e Husserl. Naples: Bibliopolis, 2002. Pp. 196. Paper,€ 20.00. Arrington, Robert L., editor. The World's Great Philosophers. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (3). 2003.
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24Relazione presentata al Seminario di Filosofia Teoretica nella primavera 2015.Given the topic of the given, it would be all too easy to become entangled in highly technical disputes about Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and other authors regarding how to interpret and, then, assess, their critiques of “myth of the given.” Though I am dubious whether we could within the limits of this articlemove toward resolving any of these questions, such an engagement might nonetheless prove profitable. It wo…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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49A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce (review)The Personalist Forum 15 (2): 437-442. 1999.
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40The Critical Appropriation Of Our Intellectual TraditionTradition and Discovery 17 (1-2): 31-45. 1991.
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History, logic, and meaning : a cautionary tale and a speculative ventureIn Randy Ramal (ed.), Metaphysics, analysis, and the grammar of God: process and analytic voices in dialogue, Mohr Siebeck. 2010.
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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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24"Saying," Sounding, and Voicing - Peircean Musings on Musical UnderstandingSemiotics 491-499. 2014.
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15Expression: A Tentative Formulation of an Ontological CategoryRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 53 (4). 1997.
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11Symbols and the Evolution of Mind: susanne langer's final bequest to semioticsSemiotics 23 61. 1999.
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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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44Transforming Philosophy into a ScienceAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2): 245-278. 1998.
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31Moral deliberation and operative rights: A response to Mary magada-ward and Cynthia gaymanMetaphilosophy 38 (4): 440-455. 2007.The aim of this article is to show how intimately connected Beth J. Singer's theory of operative rights is with her understanding of the deliberative process. I thus argue against Cynthia Gayman's effort to set in contrast Singer's theory of rights and Dewey's characteristic emphasis on reflective morality. Since I take the value of Singer's approach to be most evident in its relevance to the abortion debate as an ongoing deliberation, I question whether Mary Magada‐Ward sufficiently appreciates…Read more
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