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

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ethics (especially medical ethics); American philosophy (especially the philosophy of Charles Peirce). Works in progress include an article on vagueness and identity; an article on the ethics of Survivor-type games; an article on Peirce's attack on intuition; 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 Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the American Association of University Professors.

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