List, FYI: This latest edition of the Charles S. Peirce Society Newsletter is packed with information of interest to the Peirce community including an introduction to Hans Joas, the new president of the Society, a section *In Memoriam*: John Lachs, Nicholas Rescher, Don Roberts, and Beverly Kent, news of Society sessions and speakers at the 2024 World Congress of Philosophy being held in Rome this August, and much else.
Gary Richmond, Moderator of Peirce-L The Charles S. Peirce Society Newsletter 8:1 [image: Header: The Charles S. Peirce Society] Dear Gary Richmond Internationally, the thought of Charles S. Peirce continues to stimulate significant work and discussion. Dedicated to promoting Peirce’s work and thought, the Charles S. Peirce Society is pleased to update you on its efforts, on new publications relating to Peirce and to pragmatism, and on other news relating to Peirce. We are grateful for your support and for being a part of such a wonderful and expansive community of inquirers. Yours truly, The Charles S. Peirce Society Executive Committee *Spotlight on the Peirce Society President* We are pleased to announce that Professor *Hans Joas*, Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin, is the President of the Charles S. Peirce Society this year, succeeding Professor Yi Jiang, who is now serving as past president and who will be, along with other past presidents, a Society Fellow for life. For more than twenty years, Professor Joas was also a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Tübingen, Uppsala University and the Pazmanyi Peter University in Budapest. >From 2011 until 2014 he was a Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), and before that, from 2002 until 2011, he was the Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. Professor Joas’s contributions to pragmatist thought begin with his famous study on George H. Mead, *G. H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought* (MIT Press, 1985, 1997). Since then, he has authored more than a dozen other books, including *Pragmatism and Social Theory*, *The Creativity of Action* and *The Genesis of Values* (all of them University of Chicago Press, 1993, 1996 and 2000, respectively). They are all contributions to a new social theory based on American pragmatism. A more recent book is *The Power of the Sacred. An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment* (OUP 2021), in which he argues that Peirce’s semiotics can be synthesized with William James’s psychology of religion, and that such a synthesis is crucial to a contemporary theory of religion. His most recent book is *Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche* (OUP, 2024). It is truly an honor that Professor Joas will help lead our Society this year and into the future. *The 2024-2025 Peirce Essay Prize* Once again, our Society is holding an essay contest directed to promoting work by junior scholars. The 2024-2025 Peirce Essay Prize offers a $1,000 cash prize plus up to $750 for travel to the Society’s annual meeting to present the winning essay, as well as its publication (subjective to editorial revision) in the *Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society*. The essay can be on any topic related to Peirce’s work, and we consider submissions from graduate students and those who are no more than seven years out from the year they earned their last graduate degree, or ten years for those who have given birth or have had childcare responsibilities (past winners of the contest are ineligible). The list of previous winners can be found here <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=4aa7dbbfd5&e=860edf35dc> . The submission deadline is *August 15, 2024*. Because the winning essay may be published in the Transactions, the length of contest submissions should be about the length of an average journal article. The maximum acceptable length is 10,000 words, including notes. The presentation of the winning submission at the annual meeting cannot exceed 30 minutes reading time. Go here <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=7e9cc86b35&e=860edf35dc> for more information. *In Memoriam**: John Lachs, Nicholas Rescher, Don Roberts, and Beverly Kent* We are saddened by the passing of four distinguished scholars over the past six months, whose contributions to pragmatism and to Peirce studies are well known. It is our duty and privilege to remember and honor each one of them. *John Lachs* served as the Peirce Society president in 1987. He was professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University, where he had served since 1967. He is the author of more 10 books and 150 articles, with one of his last pieces being an afterword to a symposium of papers dedicated to his work, published just recently in the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (59.3, Summer 2023). Perhaps best known for his Santayana scholarship, his championing of philosophical pluralism, and his introduction of “Stoic pragmatism”, professor Lachs is also well known for having been a fantastic mentor and teacher. *Nicholas Rescher* served as the Peirce Society president in 1983. He had been professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh for more than sixty years, where he was central in establishing, at the University of Pittsburgh, one of the highest regarded philosophy departments in the world. He was, without a doubt, one of the most prolific and accomplished philosophers of his generation. He authored more than 100 books and more than 200 articles, and he wrote on Peirce in relation to logic, complexity, the economy of research, process metaphysics, and of course pragmatism. Like Peirce, Nicholas Rescher was considered a polymath, as well as a polyglot, per his memorial page <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=af472e9658&e=860edf35dc> on the University of Pittsburgh site. *Don D. Roberts* served as the Peirce Society president in 1972. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo and he was chairman of the Board of Advisors at the Peirce Edition Project from 1994 to 2001. He is the author of The Existential Graphs of Charles S. Peirce, first published in 1973, which, ever since, has been a top resource for all who have studied and sought to understand Peirce’s existential graphs. He has also authored valuable articles on Peirce, including “An Introduction to Peirce's Proof of Pragmaticism” (Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 14.2, 1978) and “On Peirce's Realism” (Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 6.2, 1970). Outside philosophy he was a jazz enthusiast and a pianist. Finally, *Beverly Kent*, known by friends as BK, is perhaps best known for her excellent and detailed study on Peirce’s classification of the sciences: Charles S. Peirce: Logic and the Classification of the Sciences (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987). She taught at institutions in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. before eventually settling at Lakehead University in Ontario. She and Don married late and in their retirement they built a home on Vancouver island, where they lived for many years until their recent deaths. *Peirce Society Sessions at the 2024 World Congress of Philosophy* The World Congress of Philosophy is held every four years, and the 25th WCP is being held in Rome this year from August 1st to August 8th. The Charles S. Peirce Society is expected to hold two panels tentatively titled “Peirce: His Time and the Future” (part I and part II). The international lineup of distinguished speakers that are currently expected to present in these panels include Cornelis de Waal, André de Tienne, Catherine Legg, Deping Lu, Rosa Mayorga, Jaime Nubiola, Susan Petrilli, and Lucia Santaella. The exact days and times of these panels are still forthcoming. But if you plan to be in Rome in early August, please consider attending these panels! *Have You Been Keeping Up with the Transactions?* Issue 59, number 4 (Fall 2023) - Ilkka Niiniluoto — Short on Peirce as a Scientific Philosopher - Frederik Stjernfelt — An Empiricism with High Metaphysical Ambitions: On Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science - Richard Kenneth Atkins — Validity and Induction: Some Comments on T.L. Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science - Aaron B. Wilson – On Short’s Anti-System Reading of Peirce - T. L. Short – “Response to Critics” (Book Reviews) - Albert R. Spencer – The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction by Scott R. Stroud - Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowroński – The Works of George Santayana, volume IX, Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion ed. by Martin A. Coleman, David E. Spiech, and Faedra Lazar Weiss *Forthcoming *Issue 60, number 1 (Winter 2024): (Provisional table of contents) - Susan Haack – “Ugly Enough to be Safe from Kidnappers: ‘Pragmatism,’ ‘Pragmaticism,’ and the Ethics of Terminology” - Rocco Monti – “Charles S. Peirce and the Origins of Vagueness” - Joseph Dillabough – “Josiah Royce’s Absolute Semiotics: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Error” - Yi Jiang – “Charles S. Peirce and Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Study” - Austin Grey, “The Jamesian Right to Faux-Believe” (Book Reviews) - Duncan R Cordey – “Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice”, edited by Jacoby Adeshai Carter and Daryl Scriven *Submit your paper for publication to the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society!* Since its founding in 1965, the *Transactions *is the premier and oldest peer-reviewed journal specializing in American philosophy and its history. Though named after the founder of American Pragmatism, all types of American thought are covered, from the Colonial period to the present. The *Transactions *also publishes book reviews in every issue, covering the breadth of scholarship related to American philosophy. We accept papers of any length, although preference is given to papers under 7500 words. See full author submission guidelines here <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=8cc5164530&e=860edf35dc> . *New Books Related to Peirce* Jappy, Tony (2023). *Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs*. Bloomsbury Publishing. Davidson, Matthew. (2024). *About Haecceity: An Essay in Ontology*. Taylor & Francis Group. Ketner, Kenneth Laine (ed.) (2024). *Lowell Lectures of 1903 by Charles S. Peirce: a study edition*. Peter Lang. *New! Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce (2024).* *Edited by Cornelis de Waal (Oxford University Press). * Featuring over 30 contributions by leading Peirce scholars: *Life and Career * 1. Daniel L. Everett — Peirce's Journey to the End of Inquiry: The Tenure of the Soul 2. Jaime Nubiola and Sara Barrena — The Cosmopolitan Peirce: His Five Visits to Europe 3. Cheryl Misak — Peirce's Thwarted Career *Phenomenology and the Normative Sciences* 4. Richard Atkins — Peirce's Formal and Material Categories in Phenomenology 5. Nathan Houser — The Vicissitudes of Experience 6. Tiago Da Costa E. Silva — Charles S. Peirce on the Inquiry into the Discovery of Ideals, Norms, and Values 7. Richard Shusterman — The Aesthetic Imperative: From Normative Science and Self-Control to Somaesthetics 8. James Jakób Liszka — Morality and Ethics in the Work of Charles Peirce 9. Juliana Acosta López de Mesa and Daniel G. Campos — Agapic Love and the Growth of Concrete Reasonableness *Logic and Mathematics* 10. Mark Migotti — Why Study Logic? 11. Leila Haaparanta — Peirce's Philosophy of Logic 12. Ilkka Niiniluoto — Peirce's Abduction and Its Interpretations 13. Frederik Stjernfelt — Peirce's Theories of generalized propositions, 14. Francesco Bellucci and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen — Existential Graphs: History and Interpretation 15. Chiara Ambrosio — Peirce on Diagrammatic Thinking and Diagrammatic Representations 16. Louis H. Kauffman* — *The Logic and Mathematics of Charles S. Peirce, 17. Fernando Zalamea — Advances in Peirce's Mathematics *Pragmatism* 18. Philip Kitcher *— *Pragmatisms? 19. Cornelis de Waal — Why Philosophers must be Pragmatists: Taking cues from Peirce 20. Vincent Colapietro* — *Theory, Practice, and Deliberation: Peirce's Pragmatism Comprehensively Conceived 21. Mats Bergman* — *Pragmatic Clarification: Contexts and Purposes 22. Aaron B. Wilson* — *Peirce, Perception, and Empiricism *Metaphysics* 23. Robert Lane — Peirce on Reality and Existence 24. Rosa Mayorga —- Scientific Pride and Metaphysical Prejudice: Ens Quantum Ens, Quantum Theory, and Peirce 25. Gabriele Gava — Peirce on Kant's Refutation of Idealism 26. Andrew Howat — Peirce on Truth 27. Gary Slater — Peirce and Religion 28. Shannon Dea — A Science Like Any Other: A Peircean Metaphysics of Sex? *Science and Semiotics* 29. Herman C.D.G. de Regt — Charles S. Peirce and the Feeling of Understanding: The Power and Limit of Science from a Pragmatist Perspective 30. Torjus Midtgarden — Peirce's Views on Education and Learning 31. Tullio Viola — The Philosophical Relevance of Peirce's Historical Studies 32. Tony Jappy *— *Diagrams, Semiosis and Peirce's Metaphor 33. Kalevi Kull* — *Peirce on Biology: A Critical Review 34. Daniel L. Everett *— *Peirce's Universal Grammar: Some Implications for Modern Linguistics *Other New Articles on Peirce:* - Bonifazi, A. (2024). “Cross-modal Iconicity in Songs about Weeping.” Semiotica, 2024(256), 1–29. - Borges, P., & Franco, J. R. (2023). “Some Pragmatic Consequences to the Order of Determination of the Object’s Trichotomies in Peirce’s Late Semiotics.” Semiotica, 2023(255), 1–15. - Ramazzotto, N. (2023). “Review of Ivo Assad Ibri, Semiotics and Pragmatism. Theoretical Interfaces”. (London: Springer, 2022). European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, XV-2. - Rosa, S. B. della. (2023). “Se le lettere e la dottrina frutta mai nulla, ciò è in virtù non della verità, ma dell’impostura”. Sulla fertilità concettuale e altri aspetti rivelatori delle Bullshit come Dissoi Logoi. European journal of pragmatism and American philosophy, XV-2. - Bellucci, Francesco. (2023). "On Mixed Signs", Versus. Quaderni di studi semiotici 137, n. 2 (2023): 357–372 - Jappy, T. (2023). “Biosemiotics and Peirce.” Language and Semiotic Studies, 9(2), 143–162. - O’Mahony, P. (2023). “Critical Theory, Peirce and the Theory of Society.” European Journal of Social Theory, 26(2), 258–281. - Russi, L., & Ponzio, J. (2024). “Form as Syntax in C.S. Peirce: a Conversation with Julia Ponzio.” Human Arenas: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Meaning, 7(1), 183–197. - Possati, L. M. (2023). “From Turing to Peirce. A Semiotic Interpretation of Computation.” Foundations of Science, 28(4), 1085–1110. - Ribeiro, G., Sabadin, M., Naccari, M., & Raimondi, T. (2023). “Hume’s Criticisms of Induction and Peirce’s Semiotic Epistemology: the Value of Pluralistic Approaches for Organizational Knowledge: As críticas de Hume à indução e a epistemologia semiótica de Peirce: o valor das abordagens pluralistas para o conhecimento organizacional.” Concilium (English Language Edition), 23(21), 364–378. - Mukhopadhyay, S. (2023). “Abductive Inference and C. S. Peirce: 150 Years Later.” Journal of Quantitative Economics : Journal of the Indian Econometric Society, 21(1), 123–149. - Švorcová, J., Lacková, Ľ., & Fulínová, E. (2023). “Evolution by Habit: Peirce, Lamarck, and Teleology in Biology.” Theory in Biosciences = Theorie in Den Biowissenschaften, 142(4), 411–422. - Duterme, T. (2023). “The Semiosis of Stock Market Indices: Taking Charles Sanders Peirce to a Trading Room.” Valuation Studies, 10(1), 10–31. - Gustavo Muneratto. (2024). “A multidimensionalidade da fixação da crença a partir de Charles S. Peirce.” Signos Do Consumo, 15(2). - Räber, M. (2023). “Democratic Freedom as an Aesthetic Achievement: Peirce, Schiller and Cavell on Aesthetic Experience, Play and Democratic Freedom.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, 49(3), 332–355. - Zanette, J. L. (2023). “Relation of Normative Sciences and the Predisposition to Act in Peirce’s Philosophy.” Cognitio: Publicação Anual Do Centro de Estudos Do Pragmatismo, 24(1). - Nöth, W. (2023). “Os discursos literários, científicos e filosóficos em C. S. Peirce.” Galáxia (São Paulo, Brazil), 48. - Hakimzadeh, S. (2023). “Reclaiming the Commons: Law, Rhetoric, and C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatic Philosophy.” Law, Culture and the Humanities, 19(3), 603–623. - Atkins, R. K. (2023). “On Three Levels of Abstractness in Peirce’s Beta Graphs.” History and Philosophy of Logic, 44(1), 16–32. - Oostra, Arnold (2023). “Existential Graphs as an Outstanding Case of the Use of Diagrams in Mathematics.” In Diagrams and Gestures: Mathematics, Philosophy and Linguistics, ed. Francesco La Mantia, Charles Alunni, and Fernando Zalamea (Springer). - Oostra, A. (2023). “La Notación Diagramática De C. S. Peirce Para Los Conectivos Proposicionales Binarios.” Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 28(106), 57–70. - Rocha, D. F. S., Bittencourt, I. I., de Amorim Silva, R., & Ospina, P. L. E. (2023). “An Assistive Technology Based on Peirce’s Semiotics for the Inclusive Education of Deaf and Hearing Children.” Universal Access in the Information Society, 22(4), 1097–1116. - Rodríguez Higuera, C. (2023). “Charles Peirce’s Philosophy and the Intersection Between Biosemiotics and the Philosophy of Biology.” Biological Theory. - Koshkin, S. (2023). “Logical Reduction of Relations: From Relational Databases to Peirce’s Reduction Thesis.” Logic Journal of the IGPL. - Tuomo Hiippala. (2024). “Rethinking Multimodal Corpora from the Perspective of Peircean Semiotics.” Frontiers in Communication, 9. - Jurková, B. (2023). “The Category of Thirdness in the New Mechanical Philosophy.” Linguistic Frontiers, 6(3), 1–8. - Perissinotto, H. T. D., & Queiroz, J. (2023). “Metacognition and Diagrams in Marking-for-self.” Cognitive Semiotics, 16(2), 145–168. - Simonson, P. (2023). “Postconstructivisms and the Promise of Peircean Rhetoric.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, 56(3–4), 215–241. - Stjernfelt, F., & Pantsar, M. (2023). “Peirce’s Philosophy of Notations and the Trade-offs in Comparing Numeral Symbol Systems.” Cognitive Semiotics, 16(2), 121–144. - Lassiter, C. (2024). “Reading the Signs: From Dyadic to Triadic Views for Identifying Experts.” Social Epistemology, 38(1), 98–109. *William James Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 2023, Special Issue – James, Peirce, and Pragmatism:* - Cárdenas, P. R., & Herbert, D. R. (2023). “James, Peirce, and Pragmatism: Introduction to Special Issue.” - Rodrigues, C. T. (2023). “Pragmatic Truth: A Task of Ours Through an Unusual Comparison.” - Haack, S. (2023). “James and Peirce on the Importance of Individuals: The Differences that Make a Difference.” - Herbert, D. R. (2023). “The Will to Believe and the Will to Learn: James, Peirce, and Anti-Evidentialism.” - Horta, J. (2023). “Hábitos y Conocimiento: Las condiciones pragmáticas de un Modelo Científico.” - Cárdenas, Paniel Reyes. “William James and Charles Sanders Peirce on Experience and Perception: A Radical Exploration of the Universes of Experience.” *Did we miss any new articles or books on Peirce published between November 2023 and April 2024?* Please let us know at peircesoci...@gmail.com and we will include them in the next Newsletter! *Become an Official Member* Official membership to the Charles S. 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