Education
His education includes a bachelor"s degree from Saint Anselm College, a master"s degree from Marquette University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Marquette University.
His education includes a bachelor"s degree from Saint Anselm College, a master"s degree from Marquette University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Marquette University.
They range from such literature, film, and music (above all, jazz) to semiotics, poststructuralism, and psychoanalysis, from social and political philosophy to philosophical and experimental psychology. He is the author of Peirce’s Approach to the Self, A Glossary of Semiotics, and Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom as well as scores of articles His writings have been translated into a variety of languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Bulgarian, and Japanese.
Chair of the Advisory Board of the Peirce Edition Project (the Project is responsible for producing a critical edition of Peirce’s voluminous scientific and philosophical writings).
Company-editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. He is past president of the Metaphysical Society of America, the Semiotic Society of America, and the Charles South. Peirce Society.
While his principal area of historical research is classical American pragmatism (especially Peirce, James, and Dewey), he has wide and varied scholarly interests. The main focus of his current research is the intersections between pragmatism and psychoanalysis.