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12Qualities, Qualisigns, and the Shifting Boundary Between Immediacy and MediationSemiotics 1-13. 2013.
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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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5The 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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33The Vanishing Subject of Contemporary Discourse: A Pragmatic ResponseJournal of Philosophy 87 (11): 644-655. 1990.
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: 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
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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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12Entangling Alliances and Critical Traditions: Reclaiming the Possibilities of CritiqueJournal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (2). 1998.
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7Marking Distinctions and Making Differences: Being as DialecticJournal of Speculative Philosophy 10 (1). 1996.
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19Signs and their vicissitudes: Meanings in excess of consciousness and functionalitySemiotica 2004 (148). 2004.
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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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6Testing Our Traditional “Intuitions”Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 265-274. 1999.
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John J. Stuhr , "Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 24 (4): 547-562. 1988.
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2Expression and Interpretation in LanguageTransaction. 2012.This book features the full scope of Susan Petrilli's important work on signs, language, communication, and of meaning, interpretation, and understanding. Although readers are likely familiar with otherness, interpretation, identity, embodiment, ecological crisis, and ethical responsibility for the biosphere—Petrilli forges new paths where other theorists have not tread. This work of remarkable depth takes up intensely debated topics, exhibiting in their treatment of them what Petrilli admires—c…Read more
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26Review of Michael Weston, Philosophy, Literature, and the Human Good (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (2). 2002.
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29The «inner» life of the social self: agency, sociality, and reflexivityNóema 4 (1): 2-12. 2013.Questo saggio offre un ritratto pragmatista del sé e dunque una descrizione che parte dalla premessa per cui il sé è anzitutto un attore sociale incarnato, situato, che possiede la capacità di un’effettiva autocritica. Così, oltre a evidenziare il ruolo dell’azione, l’autore sottolinea anche quello della socialità e della riflessività. A differenza di molti ritratti abbozzati da altri autori pragmatisti, quello presente cerca di rendere una più completa giustizia alla dimensione «interiore» dell…Read more
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120A poet's philosopherTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (4). 2009.George Santayana was not only a poet but also a philosopher whose style, concerns, and even positions drew in his own time and continues to draw in ours the attention of poets and, more broadly, literary authors. He was, in short, a poet's philosopher. In so characterizing Santayana, however, there is no slight of his strictly philosophical achievement. The philosophical finesse with which he treated complex topics is, indeed, nowhere more evident than in his rigorous analysis of poetic utteranc…Read more
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16Tradition, Dialectic, and IdeologyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (2): 253-266. 2006.The task of philosophy is examined in reference to the actual circumstances of academic philosophy, principally in the United States. The author challenges the still prevalent tendency to conceive academic philosophy as an affair split into two camps—most often identified as analytic and Continental philosophy. Moreover, he proposes a distinctive understanding of the dialectical approach to philosophical query, one attuned to the traditional character of the relevant alternatives and also to the…Read more
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37Introduction: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and DiscoveryStudies in Philosophy and Education 24 (3): 167-177. 2005.
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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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