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5Chapter seventeen: At the turn of the twenty-first centuryIn Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto Press. pp. 735-742. 2001.
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26The Problem of Interpreting the Term "First" in the Expression "First Philosophy"Semiotics 3-14. 1987.
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8Chapter fourteen: Locke again: The scheme of human knowledgeIn Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto Press. pp. 590-608. 2001.
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33The literal, the metaphorical, and the price of semiotics: An essay on philosophy of language and the doctrine of signsSemiotica 2006 (161): 9-74. 2006.
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Aviso: Why Read This Book?In Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto Press. 2001.
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7The Emergence of Man: An Inquiry into the Operation of Natural Selection in the Making of manNew Scholasticism 40 (2): 141-176. 1966.
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48Floyd Merrell named sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of AmericaSign Systems Studies 33 (2): 477-480. 2005.
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10Medieval philosophy redefined: the development of cenoscopic science, AD 354 to 1644 (from the birth of Augustine to the death of Poinsot) (review)University of Scranton Press. 2010.Medieval philosophy redefined: the Latin age, c. 400-1635 -- The geography of the Latin age -- The fading light of antiquity: Neoplatonism and the tree of Porphyry, c. 3rd-5th cent. AD -- Founding fathers of the Latin Age: Augustine ([d.] 430) and Boethius ([d.] c. 525) -- The five centuries of darkness, c. 525-1025 -- Dawning of the main development : Anselm ([d.] 1109), Abaelard ([d.] 1142), Lombard ([d.] 1160) -- Enter Aristotle, c. 1150 -- Albert ([d.] 1280) and Aquinas ([d.] 1274): focusing…Read more
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39A context for narrative universals: Or: Semiology as pars semioticaAmerican Journal of Semiotics 4 (3/4): 53-68. 1986.
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12'semeion' to sign by way of signum: On the interplay of translation and interpretation in the establishment of semioticsSemiotica 2004 (148): 187-227. 2004.
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26Defining the Semiotic AnimalAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (3): 461-481. 2005.As modernity began with a redefinition of the human being, so does postmodernity. But whereas the modern definition of the human being as res cogitans cut human animals off from both their very animality and the world of nature out of which they evolved and upon which they depend throughout life, the postmodern definition as semeiotic animal both overcomes the separation from nature and restores the animality essential to human being in this life. Semiotics, the doctrine of signs suggested by Au…Read more
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22Liberty and Nature (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (2): 382-384. 1993.This book concludes with the suggestion that Aristotelian tradition "is perhaps the only remaining unexplored source for providing liberalism with the kind of secure moral footing it desperately needs". The suggestion seems preposterous on the face of it. In this case, however, the suggestion is a summation of all the considerable analysis that has gone before. The entire book consists of a demonstration of the fact that the quintessentially modern and liberal notion of fundamental rights for in…Read more
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69Common Sources for the Semiotic of Charles Peirce and John PoinsotReview of Metaphysics 48 (3). 1995.THE PREVALENCE TODAY of "semiotics" as the preferred linguistic form for designating the study of signs in its various aspects already conceals a history, a story of the ways in which, layer by layer, the temporal achievement we call human understanding builds, through public discourse, ever new levels of common acceptance each of which presents itself as, if not self-evident, at least the common wisdom. Overcoming such present-mindedness is not the least of the tasks faced by the awakening of s…Read more
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5Chapter two: Philosophy as physicsIn Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto Press. pp. 15-41. 2001.
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The Quasi-Error of the External World: An Essay for Thomas A. Sebeok, in memoriam This essay is to be found in the Proceedings publication of the Society, Edited by Scott Simpkins and John Deely Semiotics 2001 (New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas Press, 2002) (review)American Journal of Semiotics 17 (4): 477-509. 2001.
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4Semiotics as a postmodem recovery of the cultural unconsciousSign Systems Studies 28 15-47. 2000.This essay explores the terminology of semiotics with an eye to the historical layers of human experience and understanding that have gone into making the doctrine of signs possible as a contemporary intellectual movement. Using an essentially Heideggerian view of language as a heuristic hypothesis, the name semiotics is examined in light of the realization that only with Augustine's Latin signum was the possibility of a general doctrine of signs introduced, and that first among the later Latins…Read more
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1Chapter nine: Three outcomes, two destiniesIn Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto Press. pp. 411-446. 2001.
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12UninstantiabilitySemiotica 2016 (208): 1-20. 2016.Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print
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3Chapter eleven: Beyond the latin umwelt: Science comes of ageIn Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto Press. pp. 485-510. 2001.
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19Contrary to what the author dismisses as false claims of postmodernity, the work shows that what is truly postmodern in philosophy both goes beyond modernity and recovers philosophy's past in a renewed understanding of the human condition.