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65Angus Kerr-Lawson, abulensean pragmatism, and the problem of valuesTransactions 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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38George 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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32C. A. Strong and G. Santayana in Light of Archive MaterialOverheard in Seville 24 (24): 23-27. 2006.
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25Vital Liberties in American DemocracyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (3). 2004.
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22Philosophy in Digital Culture: Images and the Aestheticization of the Public Intellectual’s NarrativesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (1): 23-37. 2020.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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22Review 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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22Robert Pippin’s Cinematic Philosophy in Light of Richard Rorty’s NeopragmatismIn Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Ludwig Nagl (eds.), Ein Filmphilosophie-Symposium Mit Robert B. Pippin: Western, Film Noir Und Das Kino der Brüder Dardenne, De Gruyter. pp. 75-92. 2016.
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21Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy (edited book)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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21The normative thought of Charles S. Peirce (edited book)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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19Axiocentrism in Santayana and ElzenbergTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2). 2003.
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18American Heritage as a Source of ValuesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (2). 2005.
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17Santayana and the Problem of AmericanizationTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (1). 2004.
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17Democratic values in the aesthetics of classic American pragmatismHuman Affairs 21 (4): 335-346. 2011.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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17Santayana as a Stoic Pragmatist in John Lachs’s InterpretationOverheard in Seville 38 (38): 109-122. 2020.
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15Literary Philosophy in Light of Richard Rorty's Ideas of Democratic Liberalism and Cultural Politics1In Jacquelyn Kegley & Krzyszof Piotr Skowronski (eds.), Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy, Lexington. 2013.
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10Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (edited book)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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8Some 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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8Stoic pragmatist ethics in the time of pandemicEthics 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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8Pragmatist Kant: Pragmatism, Kant, and Kantianism in the Twenty-first Century (edited book). 2007.
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8The avant-garde’s visual arts in the context of Santayana’s idea of vital libertyHuman Affairs 22 (2): 142-160. 2012.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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6A Life of Scholarship with Santayana: Essays and Reflections (edited book)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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6The Individual and the Community in Stoic PragmatismRuch 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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5Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (edited book)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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5Values and Powers: Re-reading the Philosophical Tradition of American Pragmatism (edited book)Rodopi. 2009.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