BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Edited with Kathleen Wallace & Robert S. Corrington. Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. 391 pages.
Edited with Kathleen Wallace. Justus Buchler, Metaphysics of Natural Complexes, 2nd expanded edition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. 308 pages.
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
"Esthetic Form Revisited: John Dewey's Metaphysics of Art." In Metaphysics in Experience: American Philosophy in Transition, edited by Douglas Anderson & Richard Hart, Fordham University Press, 1996.
"Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning." In Peirce and Value Theory: On Peircean Ethics and Aesthetics (Semiotic Crossroads Series 6), edited by Herman Parret, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993.
"Reference, Interpretation, and Articulation: Rethinking Meaning in the Arts." In Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics, edited by Armen Marsoobian, Kathleen Wallace & Robert S. Corrington, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1991.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
"Saying, Singing, or Sound: Prima la Musica e poi le Parole Revisited." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54:3 (Summer 1996).
"Prima la Musica e poi le Parole: Explorations in Aesthetic Meaning." Peirce Seminar Papers: An Annual of Semiotic Analysis 1 (1993).
"Meaning in the Arts: Considerations for a General Theory." Texas A&M Studies in American Philosophy 1:2 (1992).
"The Opening of the American Mind: An Unspoken Conversation." Connecticut Review 12:1 (Winter 1990).
"Does Metaphysics Rest on an Agrarian Foundation? A Deweyan Answer and Critique." Agriculture and Human Values 7:1 (Winter 1990).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Editor-in-Chief, Metaphilosophy, January 1993.
Articles Editor, Metaphilosophy, September 1991-December 1992.
BOOK REVIEWS (feature latest):
American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century, edited by John Ryder, in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal of American Philosophy 32:4 (1996).
Dewey's Metaphysics, by Raymond D. Boisvert, in Journal of Speculative Philosophy 3:4 (1989).
Ordinal Naturalism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Justus Buchler, by Beth Singer, in Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1:2 (1987).
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
"Aesthetic Meaning Reconsidered; or What's New with the Old Pragmatism?" Philosophy Department Seminar (Colloquium), Lancaster University, United Kingdom, May 1994.
"Prima la Musica e poi le Parole: Explorations in Aesthetic Meaning." American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 1992 (earlier versions read at XIIth International Congress of Aesthetics, Madrid, Spain, September 1992 and the Semiotic Society of America Annual Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 1991).
"Reconstructing Aesthetic Meaning Within the Context of Human Communication." Eastern Division, American Society for Aesthetics, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, March 1992.
"John Dewey and Formalist Esthetics: A Metaphysical Critique." American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, University of Texas, Austin, TX, October 1990.
"Socrates on the Tube: The 'Ethics in America' Television Program" (panel). American Association of Philosophy Teachers, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta, GA, December 1989.
"Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning." Charles Sanders Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 1989.
"The Limits of Representation: Goodman, Danto, and Buchler on Meaning." Philosophy Department Colloquium, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, October 1988.
"Meaning in the Arts: Considerations for a General Theory of Meaning." XI International Congress in Aesthetics: Tradition and Innovation in Aesthetics, Nottingham, England, August 1988 (revised and expanded version of earlier paper).
"Meaning in the Arts: Considerations for a General Theory of Meaning." Frontiers in American Philosophy: An International Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, June 1988.
Critical Commentary and panel discussion of Allan Bloom's lecture, "Liberal Education and the Political Community." Connecticut State University Spring Institute, New Haven, CT, April 1988.
"The Opening of the American Mind: Bloom & Dewey on Education and Democracy." North American Society for Social Philosophy, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, NY, December 1987.
"Dewey and Metaphysical Speculation." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 1987.
"Value and the Origin of Metaphysics: The Deweyan Critique." International Association of Philosophy and Literature Annual Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 1986.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, 1991-92.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1991-94, Project: Book preparation, Artworks as Signs: A Semiotic Approach to Aesthetic Meaning.
Connecticut State University Curriculum Grant, Summer 1993, 1988, Project: "Computer Logic."
Nominated for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer 1993, 1992, 1991, by Southern Connecticut State University, "Artworks as Signs: A Semiotic Approach to Aesthetic Meaning."
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Semiotic Perspectives on Language and Verbal Art." Brown University, Providence, RI, Director: Michael Shapiro, Summer 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Classic Texts in Early American History." University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Summer 1989.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1989-90, Project: Book preparation, Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for an Ordinal Metaphysics.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1988-89, Project: Articles and presentations on John Dewey's Aesthetics.
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Aesthetics; Metaphysics; American Philosophy; Semiotics
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Probing the Consummatory: The Complications of John Dewey's Metaphysics of Experience
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:
State University of New York at Stony Brook