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3A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders PeirceIndiana University Press. 1996.An overview of Peirce's semiotic theory. An analysis of his semiotic grammar, critical logic and universal rhetoric.
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5Information, Meaning and the Role of Semiosis in the Development of Living SystemsSigns 2 188-217. 2008.The claim here is that semiosis is concomitant with life and not simply one of several possible adaptive mechanisms. Signs, particularly indices, serve as steering mechanisms for even the most primitive organisms, completing a circuit between the detection of energy sources and behavior that is conducive to acquiring those sources. Without that kind of agency, no form of life is possible. To show this, an understanding of the interrelation among energy, matter, information, and meaning is requir…Read more
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98Peirce's New RhetoricTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (4): 439-477. 2000.A comprehensive account of Peirce's third branch of semiotic--universal or speculative rhetoric. The article places Peirce's work in the context of the rhetorical tradition. Unlike the direction that analytic and positivist philosophy took, Peirce does not separate logic and rhetoric. Instead Peirce uses his novel theory of rhetoric to show how logic and scientific investigation is tied to a cooperative community of inquiry.
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169Peirce's Esthetics as a Science of Ideal EndsCognitio 18 (2): 205-229. 2018.Peirce considered his esthetics to be one of a trio of normative sciences. Ostensibly, the sciences of logic, ethics and esthetics, would study the traditional norms of truth, goodness and beauty. Logic was normative in the sense that it studied how people ought to reason, if truth is to be the result. Similarly, ethics is the study of how we ought to conduct ourselves, if good is to happen. At the same time, Peirce seems to have difficulty fitting the study of the beautiful into this sort of n…Read more
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36The narrative ethics of Leopold'sEthics and the Environment 8 (2): 42-70. 2003.: Although philosophers often focus on the essays of Leopold's Sand County Almanac, especially "The Land Ethic," there is also a normative argument present in the stories that comprise most of the book. In fact the shack stories may be more persuasive, with a subtlety and complexity not available in his prose piece. This paper develops a narrative ethics methodology gleaned from rhetoric theory, and current interest in narrative ethics among literary theorists, in order to discern the normative …Read more
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7Transvaluation and Myth: Markedness and the Structure of Elementary NarrationAmerican Journal of Semiotics 6 (2/3): 141-181. 1989.
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75The narrative ethics of leopold'ssand county almanacEthics and the Environment 8 (2): 42-70. 2003.Although philosophers often focus on the essays of Leopold's Sand County Almanac, especially "The Land Ethic," there is also a normative argument present in the stories that comprise most of the book. In fact the shack stories may be more persuasive, with a subtlety and complexity not available in his prose piece. This paper develops a narrative ethics methodology gleaned from rhetoric theory, and current interest in narrative ethics among literary theorists, in order to discern the normative un…Read more
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20Good and Bad Foundationalism: A Response to NielsenTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 29 (4). 1993.
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13An Overview of Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative SciencesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 58 (3): 219-226. 2022.Abstract:In Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences, I argue that Peirce was motivated to develop a normative science of ethics because of his growing concern with the corruption of science in the Gilded Age, and the recognition that the pragmatic maxim entailed an amoral instrumentalism. Rather than taking a Kantian approach to resolve the latter issue, he adopts an Aristotelian one, engaging in a search for an ultimate end that could order all other ends. What is right i…Read more
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8Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences: Response to CommentatorsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 58 (3): 253-264. 2022.Abstract:In my response to the commentators, I agree with Rosa Mayorga that Duns Scotus should be included as an important influence on Peirce's notion of agency, as well as his sense of the highest good. I explain, however, how Peirce's triadic view of agency is an improvement that relates to current debates between moral internalism and externalism. In response to Diana Heney, I defend Peirce's notion of evolutionary love as a form of intergenerational altruism, necessary to any community of i…Read more
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17Pragmatism and the Ethic of MeliorismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 13 (2). 2021.The founding pragmatists were meliorists, arguing for the possibility of improvement in the human condition. At the same time, they did not think that progress was something inevitable. It was constrained by a tragic order that would prevent any movement toward a utopian ideal and could always lead to regress. Because they could not abide the notion of an absolute, pre-determined sense of the good, they did not subscribe to a moral perfectionism as well. Instead, Peirce, James and Dewey argued i…Read more
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93. Charles Peirce on EthicsIn Cornelis De Waal & Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (eds.), The normative thought of Charles S. Peirce, Fordham University Press. pp. 44-82. 2012.An examination of Charles Peirce's work on ethics. An account of his influences. An analysis of his desire-belief model of conduct, ethical reasoning and the normative basis of his community of inquiry. His attempt at a classification of ends and his argument for reasonableness as the highest end. HIs account of practical ethics and common morality.
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5The Narrative Ethics of Leopold's Sand County AlmanacEthics and the Environment 8 (2): 42-70. 2010.Although philosophers often focus on the essays of Leopold's Sand County Almanac, especially "The Land Ethics," there is also a normative argument present in the stories that comprise most of the book. In fact, the shack stories may be more persuasive, with a subtlety and complexity not available in his prose piece. This paper develops a narrative ethics methodology gleaned from rhetoric theory and current interest in narrative ethics among literary theorists, in order to discern the normative u…Read more
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49. Next, in a chapter on grammar, Liszka explores Peirce's notions of the essential characteristics of signs, their principal components, sign typology, and classification. This is followed by a discussion of critical logic, the proper use of signs in the investigation of the nature of things. Finally, Liszka explains universal rhetoric - the use of signs within discourse communities, the nature of communication, and the character of communities best suited to promote fruitful inquiry.
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28Pragmatist Ethics: A Problem-Based Approach to What MattersSuny American Philosophy and C. 2021.Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.
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3Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative SciencesRoutledge. 2021.The aim of the book is to complete what is incomplete in Peirce’s study of the normative sciences, and to get a good sense of his ethical thought. This is not merely to understand Peirce, but to introduce an insightful account of ethics. Peirce’s work in ethics is fragmentary. The goal is to take the leads Peirce provides, develop them further in that direction and fill in the gaps. Peirce was primarily a logician and scientist. But he became interested in the study of ethics once he saw how sci…Read more
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14Peirce’s Convergence Theory of Truth ReduxCognitio 20 (1): 91-112. 2019.A teoria convergente da verdade de Peirce é uma abordagem intuitiva e razoável da verdade. No seu sentido mais geral, vincula a verdade aos resultados da investigação. De acordo com a máxima pragmática, Peirce percebeu que as consequências práticas de afirmações verdadeiras são de trazer investigações à fruição e resolver opinião. No entanto, a teoria da verdade de Peirce é muitas vezes difamada e mal-entendida. Argumenta-se, aqui, que uma vez que se entende que a teoria convergente é uma inferê…Read more