List, There has been quite a bit of Peirce and Peirce-related activity happening around the world of late as this newsletter strongly suggests; it features a number of gatherings and individual scholars from Latin America, China, Japan, and Europe. Here are a few items which caught my attention in the current newsletter:
**On Saturday, January 10th, at the Eastern APA meeting in Baltimore, MD, Daniel Brunson, Vincent Colapietro, and Jessica Wahman will present on "Pragmatist Approaches to Animal Minds". * Professor Aames [Jimmy Aames, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kobe University in Japan, this year’s Peirce Essay Prize winner will present his winning essay at our upcoming general meeting to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 12-14. The exact day and times will be announced to members of the Society over email. Also, our current president, Cornelis "Kees" de Waal, Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University Indianapolis, and general editor of our Society's journal, will be delivering this year's presidential address. *[Note especially]: **Members of the Society will be emailed a Zoom link for the annual meeting, so long as Zoom access to the meeting is technically permitted.* Join the Society today as a member for an opportunity to join us virtually for our annual meeting! From recent numbers of *Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Societ*y: *Included in *Transactions* *61-2: * Hans Joas, “Neglected Again? Peirce’s “Neglected Argument” and the Theory of Religion Today” (2025 Presidential Address of the Charles S. Peirce Society). Jon Alan Schmidt, “Peirce’s Cosmological Argumentation: God as *Ens Necessarium.* ** *Included in *Transactions** 61-3: * Richard Kenneth Atkins, “Precis of *Peirce on Inference*.” Francesco Bellucci, “Comments on Richard Atkins’ Peirce on Inference.” Best, Gary R Newsletter 9:2 - November 2025 View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/85896a262b54/the-charles-s-peirce-society-newsletter-92-november-2025?e=860edf35dc> [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 *I. 2025-26 PEIRCE ESSAY PRIZE WINNER AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING* We are pleased to announce that Jimmy Aames, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kobe University in Japan, is this year’s Peirce Essay Prize winner! Professor Aames's winning essay, “Peirce's Tychism and the Non-Euclidean Nature of Physical Space,” will be published in *The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society*. Professor Aames earned his doctorate from Osaka University in 2021, and he specializes in Peirce, the philosophy of science, and the history of scientific thought. The annual essay prize is open to all graduate students and recent PhDs who are not previous winners. Please encourage any interested junior scholars to submit their work for next year’s contest. Professor Aames will present his winning essay at our upcoming annual general meeting, which is planned to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 12-14. The exact day and times will be announced to members of the Society over email. Also, our current president, Cornelis "Kees" de Waal, Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University Indianapolis, and general editor of our Society's journal, will be delivering this year's presidential address. Following the presidential address, we will hold our annual business meeting. Members of the Society will be emailed a Zoom link for the annual meeting, so long as Zoom access to the meeting is technically permitted. Join the Society today as a member for an opportunity to join us virtually for our annual meeting! *II. THE PEIRCE SOCIETY AT 2026 APA DIVISION MEETINGS* In 2026, the Peirce Society will hold sessions at each of the three divisional APA meetings. On Saturday, January 10th, at the Eastern APA meeting in Baltimore, MD, Daniel Brunson, Vincent Colapietro, and Jessica Wahman will present on "Pragmatist Approaches to Animal Minds". In February at the Central APA meeting in Chicago, IL., the Peirce Society will have two sessions. First, Nathan Haydon, Ahti-Viekko Pietarinen, Cornelis de Waal, and Nathan Houser will hold an editor-meets-critics panel on the series "Charles S. Peirce: Logic of the Future", an edition of Peirce's writings relating to his graphical logic. Also, Jim Scow, Lois Marie Rendl, Angie Paola Hugueth Vásquez will each present in a session on "Peirce on Inference and Method". Finally, in April at the Pacific APA meeting, which will be entirely online, six speakers will present their work related to Peirce between two sessions: Scott Metzger, Evelyn Vargas, Samuel Bruton, Daniel Soucy Wenrner Moskopp, and Ken Aizawa. The new rotating fully online APA meetings is an opportunity to engage with the philosophical community without leaving home, and we encourage you to attend. (Currently, there are no plans to live stream these talks at the Eastern and Central APA meetings.) *III. GLOBAL PEIRCE STUDIES* *24th International Meeting on Pragmatism – Recap * From November 3rd to 6th, 2025, the 24th International Meeting on Pragmatism (EIP) took place at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUCSP), Brazil, under the coordination of Professor Ivo Ibri, director of the Center for Pragmatism Studies (CEP) at PUCSP. For the past 27 years the EIPs have brought together internationally recognized scholars that specialize in pragmatism and North American philosophy more generally. The program featured guest speakers including Vincent Colapietro (University of Rhode Island & Pennsylvania State University, USA), who opened the event with a lecture on “Peirce’s Radically Heuristic Conception of Inquiry”; Ítala M. Loffredo D’Ottaviano (Unicamp, Brazil), who spoke about “Charles Sanders Peirce and the Horizons of Logic for the 20th Century”; Lee A. McBride III (College of Wooster, USA), who discussed “Radical Empiricism and Chaos”; and David Dilworth (Stony Brook University, USA), who presented "‘Materialism without Flinching’: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Freud, Peirce, and Wallace Stevens". The EIP also featured six roundtables on various topics associated with Pragmatism, Semiotics, and related disciplines, with the participation of Brazilian and international researchers, and especially the SAAP, represented by its president Lee McBride and Vincent Colapietro, with Nicola Ramazzotto from the University of Bari participating as a guest. The EIP also hosted 70 presentations by young scholars in the field. The next 25th EIP will be held from November 9th to 12th, 2026, again promoted by CEP/PUCSP. In due course, the event website, International Meeting on Pragmatism (PUC-SP) | Encontro Internacional sobre Pragmatismo – PUCSP, will provide details of the event, such as submission deadlines, etc. *Latin American Peirce Society Congress - Recap * Between September 24 and 26, the city of Valparaiso – in Chile – hosted the Third Congress of the Latin American Peirce Society (SLA-Peirce)*, *that gives continuity to the previous editions made in Puebla City, Mexico (2019) and Manizales, Colombia (2021). The event, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at the *University of Valparaiso (UV)*, brought together leading researchers, academics and students from more than a dozen countries, including delegations from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Russia, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. The congress focused on the vast and complex work of *Charles Sanders Peirce*. Participants explored Peirce’s influence in various fields of knowledge. Among the most addressed topics, they highlighted: - *Semiotics and* *Biosemiotics*: Analysis of the concept of sign and its application in biological systems. - *Logic and Philosophy of Science:* Discussions on the theory of abduction, the logic of diagrams, and the method of reasoning in science. - *Epistemology and Pragmatism:* Reflections on the formation of knowledge, truth and practical action in the Peircean pragmatic tradition. - *Philosophy of Mathematics:* Explorations of the nature of mathematical reasoning. - *Ethics:* The ethical implications of Peirce’s thinking The presence of researchers from different latitudes enriched the debate, developing *Peirce studies* across different cultural and academic contexts. The success of this congress confirms the vitality of the *SLA-Peirce* as a fundamental engine for the dissemination and advancement of Peirce’s thinking in Latin America. Across three congresses the society has strengthened, welcoming new researchers, theorists and academics, expanding the areas of influence of Peirce’s ideas and philosophy and consolidating a network of academic collaboration that transcends borders, with a view to the upcoming meetings. *IV. HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING UP WITH THE TRANSACTIONS?* *61-2* Hans Joas, “Neglected Again? Peirce’s “Neglected Argument” and the Theory of Religion Today” (2025 Presidential Address of the Charles S. Peirce Society). Shunji Ukai, “Sense of Democracy against Totalitarianism as a Way of Life.” Jon Alan Schmidt, “Peirce’s Cosmological Argumentation: God as *Ens Necessarium.”* Corey Barnes, “Alain Locke’s Theory of Black American Art.” Leonarda Vaiana, Review of *The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s* Scepticism and Animal Faith, edited by Martin A. Coleman and Glenn Tiller. *61-3* Richard Kenneth Atkins, “Precis of *Peirce on Inference*.” Francesco Bellucci, “Comments on Richard Atkins’ Peirce on Inference.” Jeff Kasser, “The Inquiry vs. Probability Puzzle: Comments on Richard Atkins’ Peirce on Inference.” Chiara Ambrosio, “Inference, Guiding Principles, and Ideas: Comments on Richard Atkins’ Peirce on Inference.” Richard Kenneth Atkins, “Replies to Commentators.” Audrey Brown, “Missionary Traitor: A Roycean Analysis of Samuel Austin Worcester and Loyalty to the Beloved Community.” *V. MEMBERSHIP AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES* Interested in becoming a member of the Charles S. Peirce Society? Official membership grants you the privileges of nominating individuals to the executive committee, voting for individuals to the executive committee, voting on constitutional amendments, and Zoom access to our annual meeting. Members also qualify for funding requests for presentations at conferences and other scholarly activities. The executive committee also always welcomes suggestions from active members. Membership is included in an *individual *subscription to the *Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society* <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=8dc0f97f82&e=860edf35dc> (membership is not included with institutional subscriptions). Alternatively, you can join by paying dues directly to the Society through its PayPal account <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=262619fde6&e=860edf35dc>, priced at about half the cost of the journal subscription, and offering 1-year, 3-year, and lifetime options. Graduate students can receive free memberships by contacting the Director, Dr. Aaron B. Wilson. Details on Funding scholarly activities is available here: https://peircesociety.org/funding/ <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=5a205d50f5&e=860edf35dc>. Generally, the Society’s executive committee favors using funds to support (a) early-career scholars over mid- and late-career scholars, (b) scholars of underprivileged backgrounds, (c) projects that will expand access to Peirce’s writings or expand interest in Peirce’s work to groups traditionally less likely to have such interest, and (d) projects that will celebrate Peirce’s work and the international community of Peirce scholarship. Typical financial support does not exceed $500 for a single project, however, requesters are welcome to apply for more. *VI. NEW WORK ON PEIRCE * *Books* Misak, Cheryl. 2025. *Oxford Pragmatism: Ryle and Austin's Debt.* Oxford: Oxford University Press. Zanelli, Silvia. 2025. *Deleuze con Peirce: Un equivoco impossibile.* Naples: Orthotes Publishers. Zhang, Liuhua. 2024. *The Logical Facet of Peirce’s Philosophical System.* Revised edition. Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press. (In Chinese) Zhou, Jing, and Du Cheng. 2025. *An Introduction to Peirce’s Philosophy.* Shanghai: East China Normal University Press. (In Chinese) *Special Issue: * “Pragmatism in China,” *European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy*, 2025, XVII-1, edited by Rosa M. Calcaterra, Giovanni Maddalena, Xuefu Shen and Chengbing Wang. *Selected Peircean contributions:* “Peirce and James on Belief and its Meaning,” Boya Geng “Pragmatism with a More Scientific Spirit: Peirce’s Pragmatism Revisted,” Jing Zhou and Du Cheng “The Difference Between Peircean and Deweyan Interpretations of inquiry,” Ming Dong and Chengbing Wang *Articles and Chapters:* Aikin, Scott, and John Casey. 2025. “Reflexive Charity and the Peirce Problem as a Meta-Argumentative Pathology.”*Topoi*. Alrøe, Hugo F. 2025. “The Six Types of Sign Action.” *Semiotica* 266: 1–30. Bellucci, Francesco. 2025. “A Scale of Quantity: Kant and Peirce on Mathematical Reasoning.” In *Scientific Cognition, Semiotics, and Computational Agents: Essays in Honor of Lorenzo Magnani*, vol. 2, edited by Selene Arfini, 19–43. Cham: Springer. Black, Joshua Wilson. 2025. Review of *Peirce on Inference: Validity, Strength, and the Community of Inquirers*, by Richard Kenneth Atkins. *Journal of the History of Philosophy* 63 (4): 659–60. Brioschi, Maria Regina. 2025. “Charles Sanders Peirce.” In *Whitehead-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung*, edited by Tina Röck and Michael Schramm, 209–12. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag. Cook, Roy. 2025. “Understanding Christine Ladd-Franklin’s Logic.” *Australasian Journal of Logic* 22 (4): 366–95. Driggers, Kenneth, and Deron Boyles. 2025. “Educational Implications of Artificial Intelligence: Peirce, Reason, and the Pragmatic Maxim.” *Educational Theory* 75 (4): 682–701. Gonçalves, Hugo, and Maurício Neubern. 2025. “Ericksonian Hypnosis and the Esthetics of Charles Peirce: Feelings, Musement and Therapeutic Reconfiguration.” *Psicologia em Estudo* 30: e57250. Haaparanta, Leila Tuulikki. 2025. “Frege, Peirce, and the Ethics of Asserting.” In *Rethinking the History of Logic, Mathematics, and Exact Sciences*, edited by Elena Ficara, Julia Franke-Reddig, and Anna-Sophie Heinemann, 135–53. College Publications. Hehl, Walter. 2025. “The World Model.” In *STEM for Humanities Scholars: Natural Sciences for Humanities Scholars*, 183–206. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. Hoffmann, Michael H. G. 2025. “Problem-Solving in Mathematics with Theoric Transduction.” In *Scientific Cognition, Semiotics, and Computational Agents: Essays in Honor of Lorenzo Magnani*, vol. 2, edited by Selene Arfini, 103–29. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Houser, Nathan. 2025. “Remembering Don D. Roberts (1932–2024) and Beverley E. Kent (1934–2024).” *The Pluralist*20 (1): 139–40. Jiang, Yi. 2024. “The Relation of Peirce’s Abduction to Inference to the Best Explanation.” *Chinese Semiotic Studies* 20 (3): 485–96. Lee, Yunhee. 2025. “The Role of Sentiment, Aesthetic Behavior, and Narrative Semiosis in the Identification of Selfhood from Peirce’s Semiotic Perspective.” *Semiotica* 266: 55–73. Magada-Ward, Mary. 2025. “Gender Indoctrination.” *The Journal of Speculative Philosophy* 39 (1): 58–69. Mamenko, T. 2025. “Charles Sanders Peirce’s Semiotics of Truth: Modern Interpretations in Science and Education.” *Filosofiya Osvity. Philosophy of Education* 31 (1): 221–36. Niño, Douglas. 2025. “Abductive Cognition in Agentive Semiotics: A Proposal.” In *Abductive Minds: Essays in Honor of Lorenzo Magnani*, vol. 1, edited by Selene Arfini, 137–57. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Nordsieck, Viola. 2025. “Symbol.” In *Whitehead-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung*, edited by Tina Röck and Michael Schramm, 375–77. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag. Nöth, Winfried. 2025. “Andrew Stables on Peirce’s Rationalism, Fully Semiotic Philosophy, and Last Words in Semiotics.” In *Philosophical, Semiotic and Environmental Questions for Education: The Work and Scientific Heritage of Andrew Stables*, edited by Alin Olteanu, Sébastien Pesce, and Eetu Pikkarainen, 129–36. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Oda, Takaharu, and Xuan Wang. 2024. “Mononoke Aesthetics in the Light of Laozi and Peirce.” *Anais de Filosofia Clássica* 17 (34): 113–36. Oliveira, A. S. 2025. “Charles Sanders Peirce and the Logic of Knowledge: Phenomenology and Epistemology in Contemporary Scientific Debate.” *Brazilian Journal of Business* 7 (2): e79643. Ratnikov, Volodymyr. 2025. “Charles Sanders Peirce and the Place of Chaos in the New World Order.” *Filozofia i Nauka. Studia Filozoficzne i Interdyscyplinarne* 1 (13): 9–26. Robertson, John S. 2025. “Peirce’s Universal Categories in the S3 Symmetry Group: An Analysis of the Basic Color Terms.” *Semiotica* 266: 31–53. Rohmer, Stascha. 2025. “Vernunft.” In *Whitehead-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung*, edited by Tina Röck and Michael Schramm, 393–95. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag. Santos, Luccas V. D. dos. 2025. “Perception and Cognition: A Metaconceptual Approach.” *Biosemiotics* 18 (1): 57–78. Stancati, Claudia. 2025. “Peirce and Philosophical Terminology.” In *Terminology throughout History*, edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley, 105. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Stjernfelt, Frederik. 2025. “Peirce as a Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence.” In *Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Optimistic and Pessimistic Views*, 183–204. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Stuhr, John J. 2025. “Radical Empiricism and Animal Farm Naturalism.” *The Review of Metaphysics* 79 (1): 151–76. Sun, Ning. 2025. “Mediation and Reduction: Peirce’s Phaneroscopy and Husserl’s Phenomenology.” *World Philosophy* 2: 115–25. Thompson, Bruce E. R. 2025. “What Logicians Do (and What They Ought to Do).” *SATS* 26 (1): 133–50. Villani, Phillip. 2025. “Evolutionary Metaphysics and Pragmatic Sociology: Law, Habit and Evolution in Gabriel Tarde and Charles Peirce.” *Sociedade e Estado* 40 (1). Zhang, L. 2025. “The Case for the Dependence of Logic on Ethics: From Charles Peirce to Today’s Philosophy of Logic.” *History and Philosophy of Logic*: 1–16. Zhang, Liuhua. 2024. “On the Norm of Reasoning: Peirce and Contemporary Logic.” *Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)* 56 (3): 29–42. Zhao, Xingzhi. 2024a. “The Coming into Being of Semiotic Phenomenology: A Peircean Approach.” *Inner Mongolia Social Sciences* 4: 46–52. ———. 2024b. “Revisiting Peirce’s Pragmaticism: Toward a Theory of Meaning-in-Use.” *International Aesthetics* 2: 217–32. ———. 2025. “The Sign as Medium: On Peirce’s Late Philosophy of Communication.” *Signs & Media* 1: 110–24. 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