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    Angus Kerr-Lawson, abulensean pragmatism, and the problem of values
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (4). 2009.
    This paper deals with Angus Kerr-Lawson's interpretation of George Santayana's philosophy of values. I claim that Kerr-Lawson reads Santayana correctly; however, as regards axiology, he reads Santayana literally and misses Santayana's engagement with it. Santayana's engagement with the philosophy of values is clearly seen when we use axiological terms and problematics in approaching his thought.
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    George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century (edited book)
    Lexington Press. 2013.
    This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University—the seventh in a series of annual American and European Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. The papers were written independently with no prior guidelines other than the obvious need to address some aspect of George Herbert Mead’s work. While rooted in careful study of Mead’s original writings and transcr…Read more
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    Vital Liberties in American Democracy
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (3). 2004.
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    The present paper deals with the problem of the digital-culture-public-philosophy as a possible response of those philosophers who see the need to face the challenges of the Internet and the visual culture that constitutes an important part of the Internet cultural space. It claims that this type of philosophy would have to, among many other things, modify and broaden philosophers’ traditional mode of communication. It would have to expand its textual, or mainly text-related, communication mode …Read more
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    Review of H.G. Callaway (ed) R.W. Emerson, Society and Solitude, Twelve Chapters (review)
    la Torre Del Virrey, Revista de Estudios Culturales. 2008.
    Summing up, Society and Solitude needs re-reading, and the newly published edition, beautifully edited by H. G. Callaway, and provided with notes, philosophical commentaries, historical contextualization, indexes, bibliography, and Introduction—will serve the reader well with a better understanding of the original text and help us to apply Emerson’s ideas with reference to philosophical and Pragmatic considerations.
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    Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy (edited book)
    with Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
    Lexington. 2013.
    This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical liberalism views of political justification, freedom, tolerance and the political subject. A major concern is with the conversational character of democracy. Given the problematic and ambiguous status of the many differences present i…Read more
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    The normative thought of Charles S. Peirce (edited book)
    with Cornelis De Waal
    Fordham University Press. 2012.
    Proceedings of a conference held June 26-30, 2007 at Opole University, Poland. This volume explores the three normative sciences that Peirce distinguished (aesthetics, ethics, and logic) and their relation to phenomenology and metaphysics. The essays approach this topic from a variety of angles, ranging from questions concerning the normativity of logic to an application of Peirce’s semiotics to John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.”
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    Axiocentrism in Santayana and Elzenberg
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2). 2003.
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    American Heritage as a Source of Values
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (2). 2005.
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    Santayana and the Problem of Americanization
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (1). 2004.
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    In the present paper an interpretation of the political dimension of pragmatic aesthetic reflection is proposed. The interconnection between politics and aesthetics in three classic American pragmatists: William James , John Dewey , and George Herbert Mead is evoked. The author claims that by emphasizing the role of democratic values in philosophy and life, the classic American pragmatists encroach upon the field of the arts and aesthetics. Their emphasis put upon individual activity, free expre…Read more
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    Carta desde España
    Overheard in Seville 28 (28): 41-41. 2010.
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    Carta desde España
    Overheard in Seville 28 (28): 40-40. 2010.
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    Santayana and the Avant-garde
    Overheard in Seville 29 (29): 14-19. 2011.
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    Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (edited book)
    with Matthew Caleb Flamm
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2007.
    Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana is a testament to the cross-cultural relevance of the work of one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, George Santayana. A list of geographic origins of the twenty-two contributions contained in this volume indicates the transatlantic cultural diversity of scholarly representation: scholars variously hailing from Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, and Switzerland, and from the United States, representing thr…Read more
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    Some Notes on Transcendentalism and Pragmatism, While Re-reading Emerson's Society and Solitude (review)
    la Torre Del Virrey, Revista de Estudios Culturales 2 (Spring): 1-3. 2009.
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    Stoic pragmatist ethics in the time of pandemic
    Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 11 (1-2): 82-91. 2021.
    The present paper is a response, of sorts, to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID) and lockdown that we all must face. We have an idea of what doctors, nurses, teachers, among many of the other professions, do for the general public, but one may ask whether there is something substantial that philosophers and ethicists can offer in these circumstances. The thesis of this paper is that the stoic attitude towards times of trouble and the pragmatist way of finding out what is possible…Read more
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    Carta desde Espana
    Overheard in Seville 27 (27): 37-37. 2009.
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    In the present paper, the author looks at the political dimension of some trends in the visual arts within twentieth-century avant-garde groups through George Santayana’s idea of vital liberty. Santayana accused the avant-gardists of social and political escapism, and of becoming unintentionally involved in secondary issues. In his view, the emphasis they placed on the medium and on treating it as an aim in itself, not, as it should be, as a transmitter through which a stimulating relationship w…Read more
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    Carta desde España
    Overheard in Seville 26 (26): 41-41. 2008.
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    Carta desde Espana: Bulletin of the Santayana Society
    Overheard in Seville 27 (27): 37-37. 2009.
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    A Life of Scholarship with Santayana: Essays and Reflections (edited book)
    with Herman J. Saatkamp and Charles Padrón
    Brill | Rodopi. 2021.
    Herman J. Saatkamp’s _A Life of Scholarship with Santayana: Essays and Reflections_ gathers together his work of a lifetime. There are twenty-three pieces, in three sections: “Santayana and Philosophy,” “Editorship,” and “Genetic Concerns and the Future of Philosophy.”
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    The Individual and the Community in Stoic Pragmatism
    Ruch Filozoficzny 79 (4): 49-64. 2023.
    The present paper outlines John Lachs’s idea of stoic pragmatism and develops its important part that is the relation between the individual and the community. In his project, Lachs reduces the whole tradition of Stoic philosophy to its later, Roman version and tries to link it with the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism (especially William James, John Dewey, and George Santayana, who is close to pragmatism at some points) hoping that it is possible for these two to "enrich and compl…Read more
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    Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (edited book)
    with Matthew Caleb Flamm
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.
    Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana is a testament to the cross-cultural relevance of the work of one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, George Santayana. A list of geographic origins of the twenty-two contributions contained in this volume indicates the transatlantic cultural diversity of scholarly representation: scholars variously hailing from Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, and Switzerland, and from the United States, representing thr…Read more
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    This book shows how much and in what sense values are related to powers and powers are related to values in American pragmatism. The proposed re-reading of American pragmatism will facilitate a novel understanding of it as a philosophical movement and, by showing its truly humanistic, democratic, and pro-social character, the stronger impetus for current rethinking of values is being provided. The Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) is an international scholarly program, founded in 1992 by Robert G…Read more