In his 1987 paper “Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person,” John Searle argued
that the first-person perspective provides the basis for securing determinacy in language …

Charles S. Peirce is well acknowledged for arguing for and propagat ing further the
significant and far-reaching distinction between two logical faculties, the form of reasoning …

Charles Peirce made a well-known dis tinction between icons, indices and symbols. These
are three kinds of signification-spe cifically, three kinds of relationship between a sign and its …

Charles Peirce's diagrammatic logic—the Existential Graphs—is presented as a tool for
illuminating how we know necessity, in answer to Benacerraf's famous challenge that most …

This article explores how Robert Brandom's original “inferentialist” philosophical framework
should be positioned with respect to the classical pragmatist tradition. It is argued that …

Kant posits the schema as a hybrid bridging the generality of pure concepts and the
particularity of sensible intuitions. However, I argue that countenancing such schemata …

Ludwig Wittgenstein explicitly denies that he is a pragmatist and, in turn, many contemporary
pragmatists strenuously resist the possibility that the affinities between the later Wittgenstein …

Peirce and Husserl both realized that our habits and habitual conceptions, though vital to the
success of most activities, nevertheless occlude large portions of the experiential canvass …

This thesis develops and defends a Peircean conception of the task of metaphysics and
critically compares it with recent anti-metaphysical forms of pragmatism. Peirce …

I teach and write about philosophy of technology, but I can 't quite pinpoint when I first began
to think more critically about technology—and more charitably about real life. Maybe it goes …