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

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

Spring 2012

Office: TLC 2247
Office Hours (beginning Tuesday January 10):
T: 8:30-9:15am; 11am-12:15pm; 3:30-4pm
W: 9:15-9:55am; 1-3pm
R: 8:30-9:15am; 11am-12:15pm; 3:30-4pm
and by appointment
Email: rlane "at" westga "dot" edu
Office telephone: (678) 839-4745
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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 1 forthcoming in Cognitio 12:1; part 2 forthcoming in Cognitio 12:2.

"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, Fall 2011)

Analytic Philosophy (PHIL 4150, Spring 2009)

Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 2010, Summer 2010)

Professional Ethics (PHIL 4120, Fall 2010)

Senior Seminar (PHIL 4300, Fall 2010)

Curriculum Vitae (updated September 1, 2011)