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2Charles S. Peirce: Truth, Reality, and Objective Semiotic IdealismDissertation, Marquette University. 2000.The purpose of this work is to propose Charles Peirce's semiotic idealism as an acceptable middle way between skeptical anti-realism and contemporary mind independent realism. The present debate appears stagnant and entrenched in the rigid dualism of either scientific realism or relativism. It will be argued that this dualism constitutes a false dichotomy, and that idealism offers a coherent solution to this impasse. ;Much of the trouble engendering the present debate begins with the corresponde…Read more
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4The Continuity of Peirce’s Thought (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (1): 187-187. 1999.Charles S. Peirce wore many hats during his brilliant and controversial life: mathematician, logician, scientist, philosopher; thus one difficulty for mid-twentieth century work on Peirce had been the apparent lack of systematic unity in his diverse researches. For decades, Peirce studies focused only on aspects of his thought: semeiotic, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics. Today, however, scholarship has mapped out many connections among the various aspects of Peirce’s work— squel…Read more
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9Hierarchy and the AnimalsPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 11 (2): 31-36. 2004.Thomism and hierarchical metaphysical systems generally have rejected the moral status of animals. This paper demonstrates that a commitment to a hierarchical system involves the twin claim of being and goodness. This implies that grades of goodness perfuse the created order and also implies the proportional goodness of animals and other living beings. These implications have been consistently overlooked in traditional treatments of our moral relations to animals, yet such hierarchical systems p…Read more
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3The British Idealists (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (2): 431-431. 1999.The British Idealists were a force to be reckoned with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, until they appeared as the philosophical casualty of the Great War. This volume, part of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, reproduces selections dealing with social and political philosophy from ten different authors of that tradition. Leading political theorist Bernard Bosanquet has three separate selections totaling fifty-three pages. T. H. Green has only one passage i…Read more
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6Double Reversals in Jim Jarmusch’s Night on EarthFilm and Philosophy 27 127-142. 2023.This essay explores the underlying connections, through reversals and doubling, in Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth. The film utilizes more than just similar cinematic techniques across its five episodes, it embeds conceptual connections that result in a strong location-expression conveying to the viewer the unique ‘flavor’ of each of the five cities. The essay explores the concepts of reversal, doubling, location-expression, and spectatorship. It elucidates the filmic expressions of place by gestu…Read more
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69Peirce and semiotic foundationalismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4). 2007.: This paper articulates a view of the relation between cognition and being in Peirce's thought, especially derived from his early papers of 1868–69. Based on the rejection of intuitions, I argue that Peirce realized an isomorphic relation between cognition and being that functions as a semiotic foundation. I consider several challenges to these notions in the literature, including doubts about pansemioticism, foundationalism, and realism. In the end, I suggest that the semiotic foundation be th…Read more
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120Practically "saved": An inquiry into the foundations of Royce's developmentJournal of Speculative Philosophy 14 (1): 24-35. 2000.
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5The Dueling Productions of WestworldIn James South & Kimberly Engels (eds.), Westworld and Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2018.In the layered and deeply modernist approach, this chapter explores the tension between Westworld as an entertainment commodity and Westworld as “high art” utilizing the kind of self‐reference that typifies aesthetic modernism. To do this, elements of the series are connected to classic works of aesthetic theory by Immanuel Kant, Clement Greenberg, Theodor Adorno, and Arthur Danto. Michael Crichton's original Westworld film of 1973 selected the Western as the prime focus of the amusement park, g…Read more
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21Parker, Kelly A. The Continuity of Peirce’s Thought (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (1): 187-188. 1999.
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