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*The Charles S. Peirce Society Newsletter, 3:1* *March 2019* Dear <<FirstName>>, Spring is here and summer is quick approaching. That means it’s time to write up your summer reading list! We hope you will find time to include some of the excellent work by the scholars mentioned in this newsletter. The community of Peirce scholars is vibrant and brilliant, and it’s our honor to support them and you in promoting the ideas of Charles S. Peirce. Yours truly, The Charles S. Peirce Society Executive Committee *Spotlight on the President* The Society’s current President Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen is Professor of Philosophy at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has published on Peirce’s logic and philosophy of science, and is completing a three-volume edition on Peirce’s Writings on Existential Graphs (*Logic of the Future*, Mouton De Gruyter). He describes his interest in Peirce as follows: “My interest in Peirce—the Pioneer of the Third Culture—arose from the courses in philosophy of science Risto Hilpinen gave at the University of Turku in the early 90s, followed by Jaakko Hintikka’s enthusiasm as a supervisor and mentor. Much later, this led to the discovery of some ideas, especially concerning the development of modern logic, that had been buried under the piles of Peirce’s manuscripts and letters, many of which are still to be fully studied and many more waiting to be unearthed and interpreted. Along the way, I’ve been inspired, though not necessarily influenced, by the writings of Max Fisch, Susan Haack, Christopher Hookway, Nathan Houser, Murray Murphey, Isaac Levi, Don Roberts, John Sowa and John Woods, together with many other students of Peirce’s thought and its applications. “For two decades now, I’ve been fascinated by the way in which Peirce framed his method of logic, especially as we find it in his theory of existential graphs. It comes across as a pluralist attempt to address some of the deepest and still relevant and open questions in philosophy of science, mathematics, language, and cognition. Not only can his methods and ideas be fruitfully pursued in relation to today’s problems in science, philosophy, and their history, but they are also providing some much-needed changes—both notational, conceptual and methodological—to the perspectives by which one might hope to see those questions under a new light. I would expect such influences and cross-pollinations between the past, present and future ideas to continue.” *New Book Series with De Gruyter* A new book series entitled “Peirceana,” co-edited by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Francesco Bellucci, has been contracted with Mouton De Gruyter. The purpose of the book series is to provide a forum for the best current work on Peirce worldwide, including volumes devoted to Peirce’s influence on the development of modern sciences and scientific method, as well as his influence on contemporary philosophy from the interdisciplinary perspectives of intellectual inquiry. The series will also publish untranslated, English selections of Peirce’s writings. The first volumes are to appear in Fall 2019. Members of the Society are invited to submit their book proposals. For inquiries, please contact Ahti: ahti.pietari...@gmail.com. *Peirce’s Library: A Plea to Fellow Peirce Scholars* Do you know of books that might have belonged to Peirce’s Library at some point? We are hoping to consolidate a comprehensive catalogue of Peirce’s books and would like to ask you to share any information you might have come across during your research on the whereabouts of volumes Peirce might have owned or had in his possession at any point in his life. Please send information to the president of the Society, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, at his gmail address: ahti.pietarinen. Thanks! *Members Only!* Are you a member of the Charles S. Peirce Society? One becomes a member by subscribing to the journal. Only members have a vote in annual meetings, and with a recently passed constitutional amendment voting will be conducted electronically rather than at the annual meeting. Moreover, members alone are eligible to serve on committees, such as the nominations committee, and eligible for subsidies for conference travel or research. To join, just subscribe to the journal by going here <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=092608dfed&e=860edf35dc> . *Have You Been Keeping Up with the Transactions? * The last two issues of the *Transactions* are rife with fascinating essays on the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. The summer 2018 issue leads off with Sarah Cashmore’s Peirce Essay Prize winning piece “In Search of a Pedagogy of Change Through the Developmental Teleology of Charles Sanders Peirce.” Minghui Ma explores Peirce’s graphical logic in “Peirce’s Logical Graphs for Boolean Algebras and Distributive Lattices.” Also in the volume is Matthew Crippen’s “Pragmatism and the Evaluative Mind,” in which he argues that valuations undergird cognition and perception. Furthermore, the summer 2018 issue includes a symposium on Cheryl Misak’s *Cambridge Pragmatism* (Oxford). The excellent and intriguing contributions are from Scott Aikin, Anna Boncompagni, Andrew Howat, Robert Lane, and Robert Talisse. In addition, Cheryl Misak offers an insightful response to her commentators. The fall 2018 issue is heavily focused on Peirce’s philosophy of religion. Michael Pope’s “Peircean Faith: Perception, Trust, and Religious Belief in the Conduct of Life” argues in favor of a nondoxastic account of faith independent of particular religious beliefs. Also included is a symposium on Peirce’s philosophy of religion with contributions from Michael Raposa, Brandon Daniel-Hughes, Gesche Linde, Christian Polke, and Richard Kenneth Atkins. The issue opens with “Early American Immaterialism: Samuel Johnson’s Emendations of Berkeley” by Geoffrey Gorham. *Mark Your Calendars!* April 17–20, 2019 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | The Charles S. Peirce Society will hold sessions focused on Francesco Bellucci’s recent *Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics* May 23, 2019 | Bologna, Italy | Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna | The Philosophy of Notation: Operational Iconicity and Observational Advantages in Diagrams June 15–29, 2019 | Tartu, Estonia | University of Tartu | Semiotics of Religion at the European Association for the Study of Religions July 1–5, 2019 | Moscow, Russia | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 19th Annual Gathering in Biosemiotics July 8–9, 2019 | Budapest, Hungary | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, MTA-BTK | Science, Freedom, Democracy August 5–10, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic | Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences | 16th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology September 9–13, 2019 | Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 14th World Congress of Semiotics September 12-14, 2019 | Workshop: Assertion and Proof | Peirce on Assertion | Lecce, Italy | https://sites.google.com/view/assertionproof/peirce-on-assertion <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=a7512e6e20&e=860edf35dc> October 18–20, 2019 | Nashville, TN, U.S.A. | Vanderbilt University | 2019 Douglas MacDonald Conference on the Life and Work of Josiah Royce, His Colleagues and Students | CFP Deadline: May 1, 2019, 3,000 word submissions | Email michael.brodrick at his gmail account. ****This list and the following aren’t complete; for more information about the topics, please visit commens.org <http://commens.org>!**** *Recently Published Books* Paniel Reyes Cárdenas, *Scholastic Realism: A Key to Understanding to Peirce’s Philosophy* (Peter Lang) Steven Levine, *Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience *(Cambridge) Aaron Z. Zimmerman, *Belief: A Pragmatic Picture* (Oxford) Roger Ward, *Peirce and Religion: Knowledge, Transformation, and the Reality of God* (Lexington) Richard Kenneth Atkins, *Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology: Analysis and Consciousness* (Oxford) Ghizze, E.B., et al., *Sementes de Pragmatismo na Contemporaneidade: Homenagem a Ivo Assad Ibri* (Editora FiloCzar) Julián Fernando Trujillo Amaya, ed. *El Pragmaticismo de C.S. Peirce: Comunidad, realismo y verdad* (Universidad del Valle) Lorenzo Magnani, *The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity: An Essay on the Ecology of Cognition* (Springer) New in Paperback: Richard Kenneth Atkins, *Peirce and the Conduct of Life: Sentiment and Instinct in Ethics and Religion *(Cambridge). Buy direct from Cambridge using ATKINS2019 at checkout for a 20% discount. *Recently Published Essays * Ma, Minghui and Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko (2018), “Peirce's Calculi for Classical Propositional Logic,” in *The Review of Symbolic Logic* https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020318000187 Catherine Legg, “Peirce and Sellars on Nonconceptual Content” in *Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy*, ed. Luca Corti and Antonio Nunziante, New York: Routledge. Catherine Legg and Torill Strand, “Peirce and Education—an Overview” in *Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory*. Aaron Wilson, “Peirce’s Hypothesis of the Final Opinion,” *European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy* 10:2. Donna E. West, “The Work of Peirce’s Dicisign in Representationalizing Early Deictic Events,” *Semiotica* 225, 19–38. Paniel Reyes Cárdenas, “Duns Scotus and Peirce on the Importance of Universals and Scientific Realism,” *Escritos* 26:56, 83–106. Dustin Hellberg, “Peirce, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Literary Meaning: Tension, Index, Symbol,” *Semiotica* 221, 71–103. Jaime Nubiola and Sara Barrena, “Charles S. Peirce y el arte como representación: experienca, exporesión e interpretatción,” *Metatheoria* 8. Ciano Aydin, “World Oriented Self-Formation as Sublimation: Or Why Postphenomenology Needs Peircean Pragmatism,” *Cognitio* 19:2, 204–219. Alessandro Ballabio, “The Genesis of the Creative Experience in C.S. Peirce,” *Cognito* 19:2, 220–226. Juan Pablo Llobet Vallejos and Pablo Antonio Stocco, “A Peircean Perspective on Human Voice: The Semiotic Nonagon of the Uses of Voices,” *Cognitio* 19:2, 258–269. Frank Thomas Sautter, “Gardner-Peirce Method for Syllogistic,” *Cognitio* 19:2, 296–308. Steven Skaggs, “The Dynamic Object and Improvisational Creative Acts,” *Cognitio* 19:2, 309–324. Ludwig Nagl, "Charles Sanders Peirce, Ein vernachlässigtes Argument für die Realität Gottes," in *Religionsphilosophie und Religionskritik: Ein Handbuch*, ed. Michael Kühnlein, Suhrkamp: Berlin, 2018, pp. 445-457. Dan Nesher “‘What Makes Reasoning Sound’ Is the Proof of its Truth: A Reconstruction of Peirce’s Semiotics as Epistemic Logic, and Why He Did Not Complete His Realistic Revolution,” *Semiotica* 221, 29–52. Dan Nesher, “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism: On The True Meaning and Knowledge of Our Conventions,” In *The Pre-Proceedings of the 40th International Wittgenstein Symposium*, Vol. 25, eds. C. Limbeck-Lilienau and F. Stadler. Kirchberg Austria Dan Nesher, “Epistemic Logic and How It Can Explain Our Mathematical Knowledge,” in *The Pre-proceedings of the 41st International Wittgenstein Symposium*, Vol. 26, eds.Gabriele M. Mras, Paul Weingartner, Bernhard Ritter. Kirchberg Austria. (Please see above for publications in the *Transactions*) *Recently Published Journal Symposia* Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński and Sami Pihlström, eds., *Pragmatist Kant: Pragmatism, Kant, and Kantianism in the Twenty-first Century* in *Nordic Studies in Pragmatism*, Vol. 4. Lorenzo Magnani, ed., Special Issue on “Frontiers of abduction” in *IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications,* 3:1. *Eugene Freeman’s The Categories of Charles Peirce* James M. Freeman, the son of the late Eugene Freeman, has generously made available copies of his father’s groundbreaking study on Peirce’s categories for free. If you wish to have a copy, please send a check for $7.00 to cover the cost of shipping (within the U.S. only) to: Richard Kenneth Atkins; Department of Philosophy; Boston College; 140 Commonwealth Ave.; Stokes N223; Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA. The book was originally published in 1934, is 62 pages long and in soft cover. *Trending: Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion* Peirce’s thoughts about God and religion continue to be a source of inspiration for many theorists. We know from a draft letter that Peirce had a mystical experience in 1892 while sitting in Saint Thomas Episcopal Cathedral in Manhattan. A portion of the church had been decorated by his friend, the painter John La Farge. Designed in 1877, La Farge’s decorations of the church were destroyed in 1905 by a fire. After the experience, Peirce went on to write a number of pieces on religious topics. These include “The Marriage of Science and Religion” and “What is Christian Faith” (both published in *The Open Court* in 1893), “Evolutionary Love” (published in the *Monist* in 1893), and his much discussed “A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God” (published in the *Hibbert Journal* in 1908). Contemporary scholars have been hard at work developing and improving on Peirce’s ideas. Examples of this may be found in the fall 2018 volume of the *Transactions*, described earlier. More broadly, thinkers such as Robert Cummings Neville, Donald L. Gelpi, Peter Ochs, and Robert Corrington have taken Peirce’s ideas and developed from them novel approaches to theological study. Michael Raposa wrote the groundbreaking study *Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion* and is now developing a Peircean theosemiotics according to which the world is perfused with signs. Roger Ward's recent book traces out the impact of Peirce’s religious commitments on his philosophical views (see the “Recently Published Books” section above). And Richard Kenneth Atkins's *Peirce and the Conduct of Life *explores the connection between Peirce’s religious commitments and his practical philosophy. *Share!* Do you have something to share? 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