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*The Charles S. Peirce Society Newsletter, 4:1* *May 2020* Dear Gary, During these unprecedented and tumultuous times, we hope that you and yours are safe and well. The Charles S. Peirce Society continues its work of encouraging and promoting scholarship related to that great and original thinker. In this newsletter, you will find information about new and exciting research. We invite you to let us know about the work you are doing by emailing peircesoci...@gmail.com. Yours truly, The Charles S. Peirce Society Executive Committee *Spotlight on Michael Raposa, President of the Charles S. Peirce Society * Michael L. Raposa is a professor of Religion Studies and the E. W. Fairchild Professor of American Studies at Lehigh University, where he has served as a member of the faculty for 35 years. After completing undergraduate studies at Yale College (where John E. Smith was his faculty adviser in philosophy) and a master’s degree at Yale Divinity School, Raposa received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, writing a dissertation on Peirce under the direction of Murray G. Murphey. He is the author of numerous articles devoted to Peirce, pragmatism, and American religious thought, as well as four books, including *Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion *(1989) and *Theosemiotic: Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning *(forthcoming). Raposa first coined the term “theosemiotic” in 1987 to designate a distinctively Peircean approach to philosophizing about religion, a word that he felt at the time was ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers. He has been a member of the advisory board for the Peirce Edition Project since 2010 and also served as editor of the *American Journal of Theology and Philosophy *from 2009 to 2014. *In Memoriam: Joseph Brent (1928–2020)* We are sad to announce the recent death of Joseph Brent, past president of the Charles S. Peirce Society and author of the first full biography of Peirce, *Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life*. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and the son of a career diplomat, Brent studied at Princeton and received his PhD in history from UCLA. A civil rights activist and veteran of the Korean War, Brent was a tenured professor in the University of District Columbia history department until his retirement in 1995. More information may be found here <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=b5522dcaad&e=860edf35dc> . *The 2020–2021 Peirce Essay Prize * The deadline for contributions to the 2020–21 Charles S. Peirce Essay Prize is August 1, 2020. Submission is open to graduate students and persons who have held a Ph.D. or its equivalent for no more than seven years. The award is a $1000 cash prize; presentation at the Society's next annual meeting, held in conjunction with the Eastern APA (in New York, NY, USA, Jan. 4–7, 2021); and possible publication, subject to editorial revision, in the *Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.* For more information, please see: https://philevents.org/event/show/82694 <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=348b521519&e=860edf35dc> . *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=586659b9bb&e=860edf35dc> . *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 have already been printed. Members of the Society are invited to submit their book proposals. For inquiries, please contact Ahti at his gmail address: ahti.pietarinen. For more information, please visit: https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/517875 <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=1b7a4d4b2c&e=860edf35dc> *Routledge Monograph Sale* Routledge is currently running a sale on monographs where one may use the book for free for a week and then has the option to purchase it at a discounted price afterwards. Some of these titles are in American philosophy, including Hull and Atkins (Eds.), *Peirce on Perception and Reasoning*; Gava and Stern (Eds.) *Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy*; Pihlström *Pragmatism and Objectivity*; and Aikin and Talisse, *Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy*. A list may be found here: https://tfstore.kortext.com/ <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=781bb0fdd7&e=860edf35dc> . *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 past president of the Society, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, at his gmail address: ahti.pietarinen. Thanks! *Have You Been Keeping Up with the Transactions? * The *Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society* remains the premier venue for research on Peirce, pragmatism, and American philosophy. The last two issues have been remarkably rich in content, with essays ranging on topics as diverse as: - Logic (“Denial Has Its Consequences: Peirce’s Bilateral Semantics” by Dave Beisecker and “Thinking the Problem: From Dewey to Hegel” by Christophe Point and Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod) - The philosophy of perception (“Subconscious Inference in Peirce’s Epistemology of Perception” by Justin Humphreys and “The Myth that Dewey Accepts ‘the Myth of the Given’” by Jim Garrison), - Peirce’s philosophy of science (Abduction in the Everyday Practice of Science: The Logic of Unintended Experiments” by Frederick Grinnell and “‘In Memory of These Concrete Living Gests’: C.S. Peirce on Science of Review” by Alessandro Topa), - Political philosophy (“Democracy and Moral Inquiry: Problems of the Methodological Argument” by Henrik Rydenfelt and “The Fascist and the Democrat: Crisis of the Political in Dewey and Schmitt” by Emerson R. Bodde), - Our Deeply Human Concerns (“The Humble Argument Is Musement on God’s Great Argument” by David Rohr and “Mortality in the Light of Synechism: A Peircean Approach to Death” We encourage to check out the most recent volumes and learn from the work of these excellent Peirce scholars! *Mark Your Calendars!* June 4–6, 2020 | Bucharest, Romania | The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration | Third International Conference: Semiosis in Communication: Culture, Communication, and Social Change August 24–28, 2020 | Tallinn, Estonia | Applying Peirce 3 | Meeting in Conjunction with the Diagrams 2020 Conference November 13–15, 2020 | Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus | Fourth International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication | Topic: Myths Today November 21–24, 2020 | Boston, MA | American Academy of Religion | We hope to have a session on Michael Raposa’s forthcoming book *Theosemiotic*. January 4–7, 2021 | New York City, NY | American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division | We hope to have our annual meeting and an AMC session on Robert Lane’s *Peirce on Realism and Idealism*. February 24–27, 2021 | New Orleans, LA | American Philosophical Association, Central Division March 11–13, 2021 | Denver, CO | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting March 31–April 4, 2021 | Portland, OR | American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division ****Under the current circumstances, we cannot confirm that these events are proceeding as scheduled. Please contact the conference organizer for questions regarding these events.**** *Recently Published Books* Charles Sanders Peirce, *Logic of the Future: Writings on Existential Graphs. Vol. 1: History and Applications*, ed. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Peirceana 1, De Gruyter) Robert Cummings Neville, *The Metaphysics of Goodness* (SUNY Press) Brandon Daniel-Hughes, *Pragmatic Inquiry and Religious Communities* (Palgrave) Mohammad Shafiei and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, eds., *Peirce and Husserl: Mutual Insights on Logic, Mathematics, and Cognition* (Springer) Richard Coyne, *Peirce for Architects* (Routledge) Claudine Tiercelin, *Pragmatism and Vagueness*, ed. Giovanni Tuzet (Mimesis) Seth Vannatta, The Pragmatism and Prejudice of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Lexington) ****This list and the following aren’t complete; for more information about the topics, please visit commens.org <http://commens.org>!**** *Recently Published Essays * Marc Champagne and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen “Why Images Cannot Be Arguments, But Moving Ones Might.” *Argumentation*. Catherine Legg, “Is Truth Made, and If So, What Do We Mean by That? Redefining Truthmaker Realism.” *Philosophia*. Randall Auxier, “Eco, Peirce, and the Pragmatic Theory of Signs.” *European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy*, 10:1, 1–12. Mousa Mohammadian. “Abduction – The Context of Discovery + Underdetermination=Inference to the Best Explanation.” *Synthese*. Roger Dawkins, “From the Perspective of the Object in Semiotics: Deleuze and Peirce.” *Semiotica*. Vitaly Kiryushchenko, “Semantic Contents and Pragmatic Perspectives: The Social and the Real in Brandom and Peirce.” *Pragmatism Today*, 10:2, 51–62. Tulio Viola, “Articulate Reason and Its Elusive Background: Notes on Josiah Royce’s Late Reading of Peirce.” *Pragmatism Today*, 10:2, 63–72. Bent Sørensen, et. al., “Charles S. Peirce’s Sign Typology of 1903 and the Semeiotic of Universe, Man, and Culture.” *Semiotica* 228, 287–300. Morten Tønnesen, Alexei Sharov, and Timo Maran. “Jesper Hoffmeyer’s Biosemiotic Legacy.” * Biosemiotics*, Virtual Issue Hedy Boero, “Ethics and Reasonableness, or How to Live Creatively.” *Cognitio* 20:2, 244–258. Rogério da Costa Santos, “The Presence of C.S. Peirce’s Semiotics in Gilles Deleuze’s Reflections on Signs.” *Cognitio* 20:2, 286–303. Lucia Santaella, “The Expanded Conception of Mind in C.S. Peirce.” *Cognitio* 20:2, 392–403. Alexandre Augusto Ferraz and Itala M. Loffredo D’Ottaviano, “Quality and Form in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.” *Cognitio* 20:2, 343–391. Douglas Anderson, “Charles Peirce and the Origins of North American Pragmatism.” *Cognitio* 20:2, 230–243. Vincent Colapietro, “C.S. Peirce and Josiah Royce: Understanding, Self-Understanding, and Self-Misunderstanding.” *Cognitio*, 20:2, 259–285. Brian Kemple, “Signs and Reality.” *Reality* 1:1. *Trending: Peirce’s Semiotics* Peirce’s developments in semiotics stand as one of the great achievements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Influencing such luminaries as Walker Percy, Umberto Eco, and Gilles Deleuze, and impacting fields as diverse as logic, biology, theology, and anthropology, Peirce’s attention to the diversity of signs and how they function is an enduring source of inspiration and insight. *Share!* Do you have something to share? If you recently published a book or an article or are planning a conference related to Peirce, please let our friends at commens.org know. To do so, simply email Mats Bergman at matsvberg...@gmail.com. If you think someone might be interested in this newsletter, please forward it to her or him. If you wish to be added to the email list for the Peirce Society, please send your first and last name and email address to peircesoci...@gmail.com. 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