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*The Charles S. Peirce Society Newsletter, 3:2* *November 2019* Dear Gary, The community of Peirce scholars is truly global, reaching from South Korea to Canada, from Australia to Tunisia, from Brazil to Finland, and so on. The universal interest showed in Peirce’s work is a testament to his brilliance as a scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and logician. The Charles S. Peirce Society thanks you for your support of our mission as we continue to spread knowledge of and to increase interest in his life’s work. Yours truly, The Charles S. Peirce Society Executive Committee *Spotlight on the New Peirce Memorial Monument* On April 18–19, 2019, donors to the new Charles S. Peirce Memorial Monument in Milford, PA, gathered to commemorate the installation of the new headstone and to recognize the 105th anniversary of Peirce’s death on April 19, 1914. The project of installing a new headstone began over five years ago, at the 2014 Centennial Conference in Lowell, MA. Rosa Mayorga spearheaded the effort, and the Charles S. Peirce Society and Charles S. Peirce Foundation are deeply indebted to her for her hard work in seeing the monument project to completion. The Peirce Society is also extremely grateful to Nancy Pinchot, whose advocacy, perseverance, and research made the project possible. Beautifully designed by Céline Poisson, the monument is made of American Black Granite, stands 69 inches (175.26 cm) tall from the top of the base to the top of the monument (Peirce’s actual height), and incorporates the original headstone. Special thanks go to Kathleen Hull for her excellent work organizing the outstanding conference. Sally Ness generously provided flowers for the tombstone. Papers focusing on Peirce’s life were presented by Ahti Pietarinen, Tom Short, Rosa Mayorga, Jaime Nubiola, and Richard Kenneth Atkins. At the dinner the evening of April 19, André De Tienne hauntingly summoned the spirit of Peirce in a séance. Our sincere thanks to everyone who donated to the monument! *2019–2020 Peirce Essay Prize Winner* Our congratulations to Ian MacDonald (University of Waterloo) for winning this year’s Charles S. Peirce Essay Prize! He will present his paper “Did Peirce Misrepresent Descartes? Reinvestigating and Defending Peirce’s Case” at our 2020 annual meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Eastern APA in Philadelphia. *Mark Your Calendars!* November 23–26, 2019 | San Diego, CA, U.S.A. | American Academy of Religion | On Saturday, November 23, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., the Peirce Society is hosting an Authors Meets Commentators session on Robert Cummings Neville’s recent book *Metaphysics of Goodness*. January 8–11, 2020 | Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. | Philadelphia 201 Hotel | 2020 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association | The Presidential Address and Annual Business Meeting will be held on Wed., Jan. 8, from 6:30–9:30 p.m. | A second session on Peirce’s logic will be held Thurs. Jan. 9, from 2:30–4:30 p.m. | We hope to see you there! February 26–29, 2020 | Chicago, IL, U.S.A | The Palmer House Hilton | 2020 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association | The Peirce Society is scheduled to have a session titled “Art and Truth in Peirce’s Philosophy” on Thurs., Feb. 27, 7:30–10:30 p.m. | Papers on Peirce will also be presented at the conference in sessions other than those organized by the Society; attendees are encouraged to consult the program. March 5–7, 2020 | San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | Hacienda Santa Clara | The 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy | The conference theme this year is Inter-American Philosophy. As ever, this year’s conference promises to be full of fascinating papers that provoke good-spirit conversation. April 8–11, 2020 | San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. | The Westin St. Francis on Union Square | 2020 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association | The Society hopes to have a session at this meeting; information will be forthcoming. 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 | Abstracts due February 15, 2020 ****This list and the following aren’t complete; for more information about the topics, please visit commens.org <http://commens.org/>!**** *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 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=9149994096&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 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=27095bb4f8&e=860edf35dc> . *Have You Been Keeping Up with the Transactions? * The last two issues of the *Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society* continue our tradition of publishing top-notch research on Peirce, pragmatism, and American philosophy. The Winter 2019 issue includes a book symposium on James Campbell’s outstanding new book *Experiencing William James*, with commentaries from Todd Lekan, Greg Moses, and John Capps and a response from James Campbell. Also in the volume is an article from Jeff Kasser titled “Normativity and Naturalism in ‘The Fixation of Belief,’” which argues for a subtly but importantly different account from those currently on offer of how belief is sensitive to evidence. In another article, Jeoffrey Gaspard provides a lexicometric report on Peirce’s *Collected Papers*, showing that issues concerning truth and propositions figure large in Peirce’s philosophical writings, even more so than might be expected. Finally, David Dilworth examines Peirce’s review of Santayana’s *The Life of Reason* and the extent to which Peirce regarded Santayana as a pragmatist. The Spring 2019 issue includes Rossella Fabbrichesi’s Presidential Address from our 2019 meeting. Titled “Spinoza, Emerson, and Peirce: Re-Thinking the Genealogy of Pragmatism,” she argues for a broader conception of pragmatism than prevails in many conceptions of it. The issue contains three essays furthering our understanding our Peirce’s conception of abduction: The 2018 Peirce Essay Prize winning essay “Abduction as Regulation: An Input from Epigenetics” by Simon Levesque; Mousa Mohammadian’s insightful “Beyond the Instinct-Inference Dichotomy: A Unified Interpretation of Peirce’s Theory of Abduction;” and “Aristotelian Abductions: A Reply to Flórez,” by Francesco Bellucci. In “The Identity of Sweet Molly Malone: Dicent Indexical Legisigns—A New Element in the Periodic Table of Semiotics?,” Frederik Stjernfelt argues that Peirce’s semiotic category of Dicent Indexical Legisigns has not been adequately appreciated in the literature. In “Andrés Bellow as a Prefiguration of Richard Rorty,” Sergio Armando Gallego-Ordorica shows that many themes in Richard Rorty’s philosophy are prefigured in the work of the Mexican philosopher Andrés Bello. *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) Mohammad Shafiei and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, eds., *Peirce and Husserl: Mutual Insights on Logic, Mathematics, and Cognition* (Springer) Michael K. Bergman, *A Knowledge Representation Practionary: Guidelines Based on Charles Peirce* (Springer) John Alexander Cruz Morales, Lorena Ham, and Arnold Oostra, eds. *Universales relativos. Festschrift Zalamea* (Bogotá Columbia: Nomos). Tony Jappy, ed. *Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics*. (Bloomsbury). Paniel Reyes Cárdenas, *Scholastic Realism: A Key to Understanding to Peirce’s Philosophy* (Peter Lang) *Recently Published Essays* Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham (2019), “The Magic of Charles Sanders Peirce,” In *The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects*, Vol. 3, J. Beineke and J. Rosenhouse, eds. Available in pdf here <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=4b43f513bc&e=860edf35dc> . Tullio Viola, “From Vague Symbols to Contested Concepts: Peirce, W.B. Gallie, and History,” *History and Theory* 58:2, 233–251. J.P. Ferguson, “Students are not Inferential-Misfits,” *Educational Philosophy and Theory* 51:8, 852–865. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, “To Peirce Hintikka’s Thoughts,” *Logica Universalis* 13:2, 241–262. Rossella Fabbrichesi, “Form vs. Power: Pragmatism and the Wave of Spinozism,” *Cognitio*, 20:1, 48–61. Julia Ponzio, “Form and non-Linear Continuity: The Development of the Idea of Cluster in Peirce’s Thought,” *Semiotica* 226, 153–168. Vincent Colapietro, “Peirce as a Writer,” *Philosophy and Literature* 43:2, 384–410. Leon Surette, “Deconstruction: A Misprision of Sausure and Charles Sanders Peirce,” *Philosophy and Literature* 43:2, 411–440. Marco Stango, “Wittgenstein, Peirce, and Death,” *Idealistic Studies* 49:1, 45–63. Mariannina Failla, “Peirce e Leibniz,” *European Journal of American Pragmatism* 11:1. Fernando Tohmé, Gianluca Caterina, and Rocco Gangle, “The Logic of Picturing: Wittgenstein, Sellars and Peirce’s EG-Beta” In *Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology*, eds. Matthieu Fontaine, et. Al. (Springer). Marc Champagne, “Diagrams and Alien Ways of Thinking,” *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science* 75, 12–22. Marc Champagne, “____Is Necessary for Interpreting a Proposition,” *Chinese Semiotic Studies* 15:1, 39–48. Jessica Carter, “Exploring the Fruitfulness of Diagrams in Mathematics,” *Synthese* 196:10, 4011–4032. Daniele Chiffi and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, “Risk and Values in Science: A Peircean View," *Axiomathes* 29:4, 329–346. Antonis Iliopoulos, “Material Engagement and Its Philosophical Ties to Pragmatism,” *Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences* 18:1, 39–63. Katya Mandoki, “Playing Peripatos: Creativity and Abductive Inference in Religion, Art and War,” *Semiotica* 230, 369–387. Asim Raza, Asim D. Bakhshi, and Basit Koshul, “An Application of Peircean Triadic Logic: Modelling Vagueness,” *Journal of Logic, Language, and Information* 28:3, 389–426. Marco Stango, “Can Thomism and Pragmatism Cooperate?” *International Philosophical Quarterly* 59:4, 467–484. Martin Švantner, “Inferring Ears,” *American Journal of Semiotics* 35:1, 93–115. Donna E. West, “Index as Scaffold to the Subjunctivity of Children’s Performatives,” *American Journal of Semiotics* 35:1, 155–186. (Please see above for publications in the *Transactions*) *Recently Published Journal Symposia* João Queiroz and Frederik Stjernfelt, eds., *Peirce’s Extended Theory and Classifications of Signs *in* Semiotica*, 228 (May 2019). Guido Baggio and Stefano Oliva, eds., Symposium on the Gesture in *Lebenswelt, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Experience* (Vol. 13) *Trending: Peirce’s Logic* Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen’s eagerly awaited three-volume collection of Peirce’s writings on logic happily kicks off the new series Peirceana, published by De Gruyter. If ever interest in Peirce’s logic waned, the new edition is assured to stoke even more interest in Peirce’s profound logical researches. In conjunction with a forthcoming volume on Peirce’s philosophy of notation (co-edited by Francesco Bellucci and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen), a recent volume on Peirce and Husserl (mentioned in the Recent Books section, above), and a continual stream of essays on Peirce’s logic, perhaps the last time Peirce scholars had such a wealth of material on Peirce’s logic to digest at once was with 1997 publication of *Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce*. *Share!* Do you have something to share? 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