Robert Lane, Ph.D. Philosopher, philosophy, UWG, west georgia, ethics, logic, Peirce, pragmatism, epistemology

Robert Lane, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
UWG Philosophy Program

May 2013

Office: TLC 2247
Office Hours for May 6 - 22:
MTWRF 10:30am-12:45pm
and by appointment
Email: rlane "at" westga "dot" edu
Office telephone: (678) 839-4745
Philosophy Program office telephone: (678) 839-6512

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EDUCATION: Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Miami, 1998. B.A. in philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1992. B.A. in psychology, Samford University, 1990.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

"The Final Incapacity: Peirce on Intuition and the Continuity of Mind and Matter, Part II," Cognitio 12 (2), July-December 2011.

"The Final Incapacity: Peirce on Intuition and the Continuity of Mind and Matter, Part I," Cognitio 12 (1), January-June 2011.

"Persons, Signs, Animals: A Peircean Account of Personhood," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45:1, Winter 2009.

Review of T. L. Short, Peirce's Theory of Signs, in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 46(4), October 2008

"Peirce's Modal Shift: From Set Theory to Pragmaticism," Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4, October 2007.

"Peirception: Haack's Critical Common-Sensim about Perception," in Susan Haack: A Lady of Distinctions, ed. Cornelis de Waal, Prometheus Books, 2007, 109-22 (with a reply by Haack).

EDITIORIAL APPOINTMENTS: Editor (Peirce submissions), Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ethics (especially medical ethics); American philosophy (especially the philosophy of Charles Peirce). Works in progress include an article on vagueness and identity; articles on Peirce's various concepts of indeterminacy and on his idealism; and a book-length introduction to Peirce's philosophy.

MEMBERSHIPS: Secretary-treasurer of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Semiotic Society of America, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the American Association of University Professors.

WEB SITES FOR SELECTED CLASSES:

American Philosophy (PHIL 3120, Spring 2013)

Analytic Philosophy (PHIL 4150, Fall 2012)

Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 2010, Summer 2010)

Political Philosophy (PHIL 4115, Spring 2003)

Professional Ethics (PHIL 4120, Fall 2010)

Symbolic Logic (PHIL 4160, Spring 2012)

Curriculum Vitae (updated October 15, 2012)