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Relations, Ruptures, and RitualsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 38 (2): 87-106. 2024.ABSTRACT This article explores relations, ruptures, and rituals in light of repetition. In turn, it considers repetition in light of Freud, Kierkegaard, and Dewey. The author’s engagement with Freud is however partly mediated by attention to how Jonathan Lear, especially in a recent book, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life (2022), criticizes the Freudian conception of repetition. While Freud valorizes remembrance over repetition, Kierkegaard does just the opposite: he elevates repetiti…Read more
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1In the Wake of DarwinIn William J. Gavin (ed.), In Dewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction, State University of New York Press. pp. 213-241. 2003.
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16John Dewey and Adolf Meyer on a Psychobiological ApproachEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 15 (2). 2023.This contribution aims at discussing the agonistic dimension of John Dewey’s pragmatism. The paper starts by reconstructing Dewey’s influence on Albert Meyer, a leading figure of 20th-century American psychiatry. This comparison will shed light on Dewey’s influence on Meyer, focusing on some core psychological notions such as mental health and growth. Moreover, it will show the key role played by the category of conflict in Dewey’s pragmatism, and how the latter can account for the darker and mo…Read more
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7Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists: Experience and Reality (edited book)Lexington Books. 2015.This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists
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5Semiosis and Subjectivity: A Peircean Critique of Umberto EcoSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 295-312. 1987.
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10The Primordial Forms of Autopoiesis: It Is Self-Assemblage All the Way DownJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (1): 190-206. 2017.Short of the universe in its entirety, there is not any whole that is not also a part, frequently in a dynamic, integral sense. Arthur Koestler coined the word holon to designate any part-whole. Even those parts that are seemingly mere constituents of some whole are themselves wholes to some extent. They have an integrity and identity of their own, even if their existence is apparently reducible to that of a constituent of a whole. If we take the multicellular organism as a paradigm of a dynamic…Read more
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10John P. Murphy, "Pragmatism: From Peirce to Davidson" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (4): 625. 1992.
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4Habit, Competence, and Purpose: How to Make the Grades of Clarity ClearerTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (3): 348-377. 2009.Habit plays a central role in Peirce's pragmatic account of human signification. What he means by meaning is, hence, fully intelligible only in reference to the role he accords to habit in this account. While the main focus of Peirce's critical attention is, especially in the mature articulation of his thoroughgoing pragmatism, upon deliberately acquired habits, it is reasonable to suggest that often his concern is actually with something broader in one sense and narrower in another than individ…Read more
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11Carl R. Hausman, "Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Epistemology" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4): 682. 1994.
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8The Kairos of PhilosophyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 27 (1): 47-66. 2013.This essay seeks a philosophical understanding of the nature of kairos that, in turn, discloses the nature of philosophizing. This essay claims that the kairos of philosophy is dialogue, and that dialogue is kairological in two ways: (1) Dialogue is not just a phenomenon that occurs in chronological time but, rather, imposes its own time in order to see how life (or being) itself is disclosed to us; (2) dialogue is kairological because it denotes a moment in which we are pushed into the open, wh…Read more
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20John Dewey’s Radical TemporalismPhilosophies 8 (3): 45. 2023.The author presents John Dewey’s mature account of temporal continuity, showing how Dewey’s position can be identified as a form of radical temporalism. Even at the most elemental level (that of subatomic particles), natural existence is for such a temporalist an irreducibly temporal affair. While he focuses primarily on Dewey’s “Time and Individuality” (1940), the author supplements his account by drawing upon Experience and Nature (1925), “Events and the Future” (1926), and to a lesser extent,…Read more
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5Peirce's Doctrine of Signs: Theory, Applications, and Connections (edited book)De Gruyter Mouton. 1996.
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4Quotidian Tasks: Habits, Routines, and RitualsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (4): 491-516. 2022.ABSTRACT The author frames his exploration in terms of Michel Foucault’s distinction between the practice of emancipation in the strict sense and practices of freedom. He proposes to treat rituals of attention as examples of practices of freedom. Before doing so, however, he considers the socioeconomic contexts in which such rituals must be situated. Then, he sketches what such rituals involve. In a sense, this article is a reflection on a claim put forth by one of the characters in Toni Morriso…Read more
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7Rhetoric revisited, methodeutic re-imaginedCognitio 23 (1): 59812-59812. 2022.The author contextualizes C. S. Peirce’s exploration of rhetoric and methodeutic in reference to the inevitably incomplete work of a radical experimentalist such as Peirce. He tries to show how even in the inaugural stage of semeiotic inquiry “rhetorical” considerations are not entirely absent. Moreover, he attends to some of the most important moments when Peirce re-visited the topic of rhetoric. Finally, he muses about both how Peirce re-imagined rhetoric as methodeutic and how we might oursel…Read more
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2Philosophical Biography: Preliminary Reflections on a Distinctive Form of Historical InquirySemiotics 583-589. 1993.
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5Toward a Pragmatist Account of Human PracticesNóema 13 1-24. 2022.Questo articolo si sofferma su una curiosa lacuna nella tradizione pragmatista. Negli scritti dei pragmatisti americani classici (Peirce, James, Dewey, Mead e Lewis) pochissima attenzione è dedicata all'articolazione di una concezione delle pratiche e, più in generale, dei _pragmata_. L'autore offre uno schizzo di quella che egli ritiene essere una descrizione pragmatista delle pratiche umane. Sottolinea come per i pragmatisti stessi la teoria sia una pratica o, più precisamente, una famiglia al…Read more
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3The Proof of the Pudding: An Essay in Honor of Richard S. RobinTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (3): 285-309. 2012.Among his other contributions to advancing our understanding of classical American pragmatism and, in particular, Charles S. Peirce, none is more worthy of our attention than Richard S. Robin's characteristically painstaking attempt to address the puzzle of Peirce's "Proof" of pragmaticism.1 In this as in so many other respects,2 he shows himself to be, in effect, the student of Max H. Fisch (see especially 1986, chapter 19).3 There are hermeneutical traditions as well as philosophical ones and …Read more
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9Theology of Anticipation: A Constructive Study of C. S. Peirce By Anette EjsingTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (1): 103. 2012.
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15Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Practical IdentityTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42 (2): 173-205. 2006.The author of this paper explores a central strand in the complex relationship between Peirce and Kant. He argues, against Kant (especially as reconstructed by Christine Korsgaard), that the practical identity of the self-critical agent who undertakes a Critic of reason (as Peirce insisted upon translating this expression) needs to be conceived in substantive, not purely formal, terms. Thus, insofar as there is a reflexive turn in Peirce, it is quite far from the transcendental turn taken by Imm…Read more
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4Human Emotions and Fallible JudgmentsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 35 (3): 289-303. 2021.The author argues that Peirce, James, and Dewey propose a version of emotional cognitivism. He goes on to highlight certain features of human emotions, conceived in this light, above all emotional reflexivity. Given the highly fallible character of our emotional judgments, the reference to the “I,” in addition to that to the object, can hardly be overlooked. Deliberative agents are wise to confess, “I am angry,” without eliminating what James identifies as “the intensely objective reference” of …Read more
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21. Traditions of Innovation and Improvisation: Jazz as Metaphor, Philosophy as JazzIn Cornelis De Waal & Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (eds.), The normative thought of Charles S. Peirce, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-25. 2012.
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7Despairing of Despair, Living for Today and the Day after Tomorrow: Reflections on Naoko Saito's American Philosophy in TranslationThe Pluralist 17 (1): 104-111. 2022.[W]e might despair of despair itself, rather than of life, and cast that off, and begin, and so reverse our direction.This is a finely conceived, elegantly written, and exquisitely executed work. At its center, there is Naoko Saito ’s creative appropriation of one of Cavell’s most fecund suggestions—philosophy is first and foremost an activity and, as such, it is either akin to or, more strongly, identifiable with practices of translation.1 Everything I have to say concerns translation, if only …Read more
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31. Tradition: First Steps Toward a Pragmaticistic ClarificationIn Richard E. Hart & Douglas R. Anderson (eds.), Philosophy in experience: American philosophy in transition, Fordham University Press. pp. 13-46. 1997.
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8Toward a More Adequate Understanding of AdaequatioJournal of Speculative Philosophy 35 (2): 147-164. 2021.The author argues for an alternative understanding of adequation to the traditional one as an illuminating gloss on part of what truth might mean. He does so in reference to a cultural context in which the very idea of truth has been in some circles rejected. Moreover, he explores this topic in conjunction with several feelings typically accompanying our responses to mendacity and simply to inadequate linguistic formulations or definitions.
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4C. S. Peirce and Josiah Royce: Understanding, self-understanding, and self-misunderstandingCognitio 20 (2): 259-285. 2020.No âmago deste artigo há uma comparação entre a investigação sobre o entendimento de Peirce o relato de interpretação de Royce. Estrutura-se por uma consideração do desentendimento de si e, ligada a esta discussão do desentendimento de si, uma consideração sobre o próprio entendimento. Para Peirce, em razão de sua abordagem da investigação e Royce em sua meta-interpretação alguma forma de entendimento está em jogo. Por exemplo, a tarefa do investigador científico é inacabada se ela para na desco…Read more
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7Toward a pragmatic clarification of materiality and animacy: the materials of life and the life of those materialsCognitio 20 (1): 31-47. 2019.A materialidade, ou o que alguns teóricos preferem identificar como materiais, vem sendo cada vez mais assunto de discussão e investigação. Embora esses autores sejam muito cuidadosos em especificar o que querem dizer com tais termos, o assunto exige maior esclarecimento do que recebera até agora. Isso faz com que seja um candidato ideal para o tríplice-escalonado esclarecimento proposto por C. S. Peirce em “Como tornar nossas ideias claras” e que daí em diante foi utilizado por ele para, diante…Read more
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2Peirce como leitor & leitura como devaneioCognitio 19 (1): 56-76. 2018.Investigadores científicos no sentido moderno, aqueles pensadores com os quais C.S. Peirce identificava-se mais profundamente, “têm sido bem-sucedidos pois eles passaram suas vidas não em suas bibliotecas ou museus, mas em seus laboratórios e no campo”. De fato, Peirce gastou incontáveis horas envolvido em uma atividade na qual ele parece menosprezar nesta e em outras passagens. Aliás, ele parece ter interpretado incorretamente sua vida como leitor. O autor oferece um retrato de Peirce como leit…Read more
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4Peirce’s pragmatist portrait of deliberative rationalityCognitio 18 (1): 13. 2017.Meu propósito abrangente é oferecer um esboço pragmatista da racionalidade deliberativa derivada dos textos coligidos no volumoso conjunto de C. S. Peirce. Embora em alguns casos, as formulações sejam minhas, e não de Peirce. Porém, isso não torna meu esforço um caso de ventriloquismo : a posição em relação à racionalidade é dele, e não minha. Minha tese é que, para Peirce, a razão é no fundo, um conjunto mais ou menos integrado de hábitos, possibilitando aos agentes serem deliberativos. Ou seja…Read more
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