Vincent Colapietro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Colapietro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Colapietro |
| SIGNATURE | COLAPIETRO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Commendations and Acceptance Remarks for the Herbert W. Schneider Award Recipients
in the 1830s, a young french nobleman—Alexis de Tocqueville—traveled throughout the United States and, on the basis of keen observations, wrote what is arguably still the best book about democracy in America. He noted, with distinctively French irony, that there is no place on earth where Descartes was more completely ignored yet more closely followed than in the United States. More generally, he noted: “I think that in no country in the civilize…
John Dewey’s Radical Temporalism
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), “Even…
John Dewey and Adolf Meyer on a Psychobiological Approach
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, an…
Habit-change, heightened consciousness, and agential “crises”
The author begins by highlighting Peirce’s claim that every kind of consciousness is more or less like a cognition. He concludes by making a plea for a cognitive semiotics in which both mechanistic explanations and accounts framed in terms of personal agents are necessary for an adequate account of human cognition. The topics of habit-taking and the form of consciousness associated with this process are what link Peirce’s cognitivist approach to …
C. S. Peirce and Josiah Royce
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 (uma consideração desenvolvida em referência a Peirce) 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 (i.e., sua interpre…
Propositions in the Making
Peirce as Playful/Play as Pivotal
This paper offers a portrait of C. S. Peirce as a playful thinker but also an account of play as that upon which much turns. He was, after all, a philosopher who in his maturity insisted, "a bit of fun helps thought and tends to keep it pragmatical." In doing so, however, Peirce showed in his youth how evasions of responsibility might, in their own way, often be instances of engagement at once playful and more deeply responsible than any attempt …
Actuality and Intelligibility
Expressed in terms of his categories, Peirce criticized Hegel for having overlooked secondness, “not mere twoness [or duality] but active oppugnancy” (CP 8.291; emphasis omitted), “the sense of shock,” surprise, and especially struggle and conflict (CP 5.45). In particular, he judged his predecessor harshly for having neglected or, at least, downplayed the role secondness, especially in the form of experience, plays in the growth of knowledge. In…
Radical conflict
In the Foreword (‘Toward Sustainable Mediation of Radical Conflict’), Abdullah Ahmed An-Na’im frames this collection of essays by emphatically insisting on an agonistic view of human existence. But
Gestures Historical and Incomplete, Critical yet Friendly
Thought requires achievement for its own development, and without this development it is nothing. Thought must live and grow in incessant new and higher translations, or it proves itself
The Historical Past and the Dramatic Present
The stone the builders rejected has become the head of the corner [stone]." 1 Max H. Fisch
Neglected Facets of Peirce’s ‘Speculative’ Rhetoric
The author presents a novel interpretation of Peirce’s ‘speculative rhetoric’ (the third and culminating branch of his general theory of signs), then draws out the most important implications of Peircean rhetoric for understanding our educational practices and, more generally, human learning. Improvisation and the unanticipated emergence of novel purposes are herein stressed
Time as Experience/Experience as Temporality
The characteristic form of human action is an extemporaneous performance or improvisational exertion. An ordinary conversation (what C. S. Peirce calls “a wonderfully perfect kind of sign-functioning” [EP 2: 391]) provides us with an extremely useful model for understanding other forms of “unrehearsed intellectual adventure” (Oakeshott 1991: 490), not least of all jazz improvisation. But since our inquiry into this range of considerations turns o…
The life of significance
Victoria Lady Welby's notion of wit plays a pivotal role in her voluminous writings and, accordingly, in Susan Petrilli's illuminating expositions of the most relevant texts bearing on this central notion. The author of this essay translates Welby's conception of wit into ingenuity and shows how this translation aids us in appreciating the salience and subtlety of Welby's notion. He also follows up on a suggestion offered by C. S. Peirce in his r…
Situation, Meaning, and Improvisation
This essay explores important intersections between the thought of John Dewey and Michel Foucault, with special attention to the distinction between emancipation versus “practices of freedom.” The complex relationship between these thinkers is, at once, complementary, divergent, and overlapping. The author however stresses the way in which both Dewey and Foucault portray situated subjects as improvisational actors implicated in unique situations,…
Referees
A Revised Portrait of Human Agency
to name but a handful of such figures) are social theorists whose philosophical importance is all too often missed (or ignored) by professional philosophers. The main reason for this is obvious: they are by training and appointment social scientists, while professional philosophy tends to be an insular discipline. 1 Disciplinary purity, like most other forms of this misplaced ideal, tends to insure insularity and vitiate vitality. The ideal of ke…
Aligning Deweyan Pragmatism and Emersonian Perfectionism
This essay examines in detail the triangulated conversation Naoko Saito constructs, in The Gleam of Light, among the voices of R. W. Emerson, John Dewey and Stanley Cavell. The pivot around which everything turns is the Emersonian ideal of moral perfectionism and, in particular, the implications of this ideal for the philosophy of education. As explicated by Cavell, this ideal concerns ‘the dimension of moral thought directed less to restraining …
The ongoing critique of dialogical reason
C. S. Peirce's Rhetorical Turn
While work of such expositors as Max H. Fisch, James J. Liszka, Lucia Santaella, Anne Friedman, and Mats Bergman has helped bring into sharp focus why Peirce took third branch of semiotic (speculative rhetoric) to be the highest and most living branch of logic, more needs to be done to show extent to which least developed branch of his theory of signs is, at once, its potentially most fruitful and important. The author of this paper thus begins t…
Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Practical Identity
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 q…
Introduction
Cultivating the Arts of Inquiry, Interpretation, and Criticism
Conjectures Concerning an Uncertain Faculty Claimed for Humans
Signs and their vicissitudes
C. S. Peirce's Rhetorical Turn
While work of such expositors as Max H. Fisch, James J. Liszka, Lucia Santaella, Anne Friedman, and Mats Bergman has helped bring into sharp focus why Peirce took third branch of semiotic (speculative rhetoric) to be the highest and most living branch of logic, more needs to be done to show extent to which least developed branch of his theory of signs is, at once, its potentially most fruitful and important. The author of this paper thus begins t…
A Revised Portrait of Human Agency
to name but a handful of such figures) are social theorists whose philosophical importance is all too often missed (or ignored) by professional philosophers. The main reason for this is obvious: they are by training and appointment social scientists, while professional philosophy tends to be an insular discipline. 1 Disciplinary purity, like most other forms of this misplaced ideal, tends to insure insularity and vitiate vitality. The ideal of ke…
Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Practical Identity
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 q…
Introduction
Conjectures Concerning an Uncertain Faculty Claimed for Humans
Aligning Deweyan Pragmatism and Emersonian Perfectionism
This essay examines in detail the triangulated conversation Naoko Saito constructs, in The Gleam of Light, among the voices of R. W. Emerson, John Dewey and Stanley Cavell. The pivot around which everything turns is the Emersonian ideal of moral perfectionism and, in particular, the implications of this ideal for the philosophy of education. As explicated by Cavell, this ideal concerns ‘the dimension of moral thought directed less to restraining …
Cultivating the Arts of Inquiry, Interpretation, and Criticism
Love and Death?and Other Somatic Transactions
Acedia
L'A. analyse l'evolution semantique de la notion d'acedia. Celle-ci est le demon qui vient assieger le moine. Il s'agit d'un peche associe chez certains a la tristitia. On y ajoute parfois comme dans la liste gregorienne la notion d'invidia (envie). Dans la litterature et la pensee europeennes, cette notion d'acedia a ete abordee par Thomas d'Aquin, Dante, Huxley, Natalia Ginzburg. Chez Thomas, l'acedia est un peche original: il l'envisage face a…
A lantern for the feet of inquirers
L'A. cherche a eclairer certains aspects de l'une des principales preoccupations philosophiques de C.S. Peirce : l'articulation de la doctrine des categories. L'A. defend cette doctrine, generalement mal comprise et sous-estimee, par une argumentation en quatre etapes : 1. en mettant l'accent sur l'articulation entre les categories de Peirce et la semiotique et 2. en retracant le mouvement recursif de l'analyse categorielle, ce qui amene l'A. a d…
Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism
Love and Death—and Other Somatic Transactions
This paper both elaborates and interrogates the transactional model of human experience at the center of Shannon W. Sullivan's Living Across and Through Skins. In particular, it highlights the need (especially given her concerns and commitments) to supplement her account with a psychoanalytic reading of our gendered subjectivities. Moreover, it stresses the necessity to focus on such humanly important—and irreducibly somatic—phenomena as grief an…
Love and Death?and Other Somatic Transactions
The seduction of linguistics and other signs of eros
Bebop as historical actuality, urban aesthetic, and critical utterance
This paper focuses upon "bebop" as a distinctively urban movement for the purpose of contributing to the articulation of a distinctively urban aesthetics. The author examines both how the music was taken up in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago, and in turn how an urban sensibility was expressed in this particular movement
Signs and their vicissitudes
Introduction
Cultivating the Arts of Inquiry, Interpretation, and Criticism
Conjectures Concerning an Uncertain Faculty Claimed for Humans
Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Practical Identity
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 q…
C. S. Peirce's Rhetorical Turn
While work of such expositors as Max H. Fisch, James J. Liszka, Lucia Santaella, Anne Friedman, and Mats Bergman has helped bring into sharp focus why Peirce took third branch of semiotic (speculative rhetoric) to be the highest and most living branch of logic, more needs to be done to show extent to which least developed branch of his theory of signs is, at once, its potentially most fruitful and important. The author of this paper thus begins t…
Aligning Deweyan Pragmatism and Emersonian Perfectionism
This essay examines in detail the triangulated conversation Naoko Saito constructs, in The Gleam of Light, among the voices of R. W. Emerson, John Dewey and Stanley Cavell. The pivot around which everything turns is the Emersonian ideal of moral perfectionism and, in particular, the implications of this ideal for the philosophy of education. As explicated by Cavell, this ideal concerns ‘the dimension of moral thought directed less to restraining …
The ongoing critique of dialogical reason
Referees
A Revised Portrait of Human Agency
to name but a handful of such figures) are social theorists whose philosophical importance is all too often missed (or ignored) by professional philosophers. The main reason for this is obvious: they are by training and appointment social scientists, while professional philosophy tends to be an insular discipline. 1 Disciplinary purity, like most other forms of this misplaced ideal, tends to insure insularity and vitiate vitality. The ideal of ke…
Situation, Meaning, and Improvisation
This essay explores important intersections between the thought of John Dewey and Michel Foucault, with special attention to the distinction between emancipation versus “practices of freedom.” The complex relationship between these thinkers is, at once, complementary, divergent, and overlapping. The author however stresses the way in which both Dewey and Foucault portray situated subjects as improvisational actors implicated in unique situations,…
Neglected Facets of Peirce’s ‘Speculative’ Rhetoric
The author presents a novel interpretation of Peirce’s ‘speculative rhetoric’ (the third and culminating branch of his general theory of signs), then draws out the most important implications of Peircean rhetoric for understanding our educational practices and, more generally, human learning. Improvisation and the unanticipated emergence of novel purposes are herein stressed
Time as Experience/Experience as Temporality
The characteristic form of human action is an extemporaneous performance or improvisational exertion. An ordinary conversation (what C. S. Peirce calls “a wonderfully perfect kind of sign-functioning” [EP 2: 391]) provides us with an extremely useful model for understanding other forms of “unrehearsed intellectual adventure” (Oakeshott 1991: 490), not least of all jazz improvisation. But since our inquiry into this range of considerations turns o…
The life of significance
Victoria Lady Welby's notion of wit plays a pivotal role in her voluminous writings and, accordingly, in Susan Petrilli's illuminating expositions of the most relevant texts bearing on this central notion. The author of this essay translates Welby's conception of wit into ingenuity and shows how this translation aids us in appreciating the salience and subtlety of Welby's notion. He also follows up on a suggestion offered by C. S. Peirce in his r…
Gestures Historical and Incomplete, Critical yet Friendly
Thought requires achievement for its own development, and without this development it is nothing. Thought must live and grow in incessant new and higher translations, or it proves itself
The Historical Past and the Dramatic Present
The stone the builders rejected has become the head of the corner [stone]." 1 Max H. Fisch
Radical conflict
In the Foreword (‘Toward Sustainable Mediation of Radical Conflict’), Abdullah Ahmed An-Na’im frames this collection of essays by emphatically insisting on an agonistic view of human existence. But
Peirce as Playful/Play as Pivotal
This paper offers a portrait of C. S. Peirce as a playful thinker but also an account of play as that upon which much turns. He was, after all, a philosopher who in his maturity insisted, "a bit of fun helps thought and tends to keep it pragmatical." In doing so, however, Peirce showed in his youth how evasions of responsibility might, in their own way, often be instances of engagement at once playful and more deeply responsible than any attempt …
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