Robert E.
Innis
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Degrees
1971
Ph.D.
1966
STB.
1963 BA.
Honors and Awards:
Humboldt
Foundation Fellow at
University Professor, 1981-84. University Scholar, Spring 1985.
Fulbright
Professor,
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Translation,
with introduction, of The Central Texts of Ludwig
Wittgenstein by Gerd Brand.
Karl Bühler:
Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory.
Semiotics: An
Introductory Anthology.
Meaning and Context: An
Introduction to the Psychology of Language. A revised and
supplemented
edition of Hans Hörmann’s Einführung in
die Psycholinguistik.
Critical
bilingual edition, translated with introduction and
notes, of Johann Christoph Hoffbauer, Tentamina Semiologica
(1789), under the title Semiological Investigations.
Consciousness and the
Play of Signs.
Pragmatism and the Forms
of Sense: Language, Perception, Technics.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Review Articles
The Logic of Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem in Polanyi. International Philosophical Quarterly 13/1 (1973): pp. 81-98
Review article on Knowledge and Human Interests by Jürgen Habermas. International Philosophical Quarterly. 13/4 (1973): pp. 555-563,
Polanyi’s Model of Mental Acts. The New Scholasticism 47/2 (1973): pp. 147-178
Meaning, Thought and Language in Polanyi’s Epistemology. Philosophy Today 18/1 (1974): pp. 47-67.
Agassi on Rationality. Inquiry 18/1 (1974): pp. 97-101.
Review article on Analogy and Philosophical Language by David Burrell. The New Scholasticism 49/2 (1974): pp. 386-398.
Review article on Theory and Practice by Jürgen Habermas. Social Praxis 2/1 (1975): pp. 145-156.
Review article on Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer. The Thomist 40/2 (1976): pp. 311-321.
The Triadic Structure of Religious Consciousness in Polanyi. The Thomist 40/3 (1976): pp. 393-415.
Art,
Symbol, and Consciousness. International Philosophical
Quarterly 17/4: 455-476, 1977. Polish
translation: Sztuka, Symbol, Swiadomosc.
In Semiotyka Dzis I Wczoraj. Wybór Tekstów.
Edited by Jerzy Pelc
and
Leona Koja.
In Memoriam Michael Polanyi. Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 8/1 (1977): pp. 22-29.
Reading Hegel Rightly. The New Scholasticism 52/1 (1978): pp. 110-129.
From Mirror to Labyrinth. Semiotica 25-1/2 (1979): pp. 175-183.
Rosdolsky’s Reconstruction of Marx: From the Abstract to the Concrete. Philosophy and Social Criticism 6/3 (1979): pp. 329-347.
A Wiener Signfest. International Philosophical Quarterly 19/4 (1979): pp. 469-472.
Review article on A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco. International Philosophical Quarterly 20/2 (1980): pp. 221-232.
Notes on the Semiotic Model of Perception. Philosophical Inquiry 2/2-3 (1980): pp. 496-507.
Intersections. Editor’s introductory essay to special double issue, devoted to language, of Philosophy and Social Criticism 7/3-4 (1980): pp. 227-239 (this issue also includes my translation from the Italian of ‘The Quest for Certain Communication’ by Paolo Facchi and, with Héli Hernandez, of ‘On Linguistic Money’ by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi).
Aquinas’s God and the Linguistic Turn. The Thomist 45/4 (1981): pp. 585-598.
Heidegger’s
Model of Subjectivity. In Thomas Sheehan (ed.), Heidegger,
The Man and
the Thinker.
Dewey’s Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Technology. Phänomenologische Forschungen 15 (1983): pp. 7-42..
Sizing up Signs. Kodikas/Ars Semeiotica 6/1+2 (1983): pp. 115-132.
The Semiotic Relevance of Bühler’s
Sprachtheorie.
In Semiotics Unfolding.
Edited by Tasso Borbé.
Karl
Bühler. In
Great Thinkers of the 20th Century.
Edited by Elmer Borklund.
Adrian
Stokes. In Great Thinkers of the 20th
Century. Edited by Elmer Borklund.
Perception, Abstraction and Subjectivity in Bühler’s Language Theory. Rassegna italiana di linguistica applicata January/April (1984): pp. 2-23.
Technics and the Bias of Perception. Philosophy
and Social Criticism
11/1 (1984): 67-89,
1984. Polish translation: Technika a sposób widzenia
swiata in: Swiat
Przezywany. Edited by Zdzislaw
Krasnodebski and Klaus Nellen.
Bühler und Gardiner: Von der Indikation zur Prädikation.
In Achim
Eschbach (ed.), Bühler-Studien, vol. 2.
Articulation
as Emendation: Philipp Wegener’s
Anti-formalist Theory of Language. In John Deely (ed.), Semiotics
1984.
Language and the Play of Differences. Differentia 1 (1986): pp. 265-273.
Note on the tasks of semiotics. Semiotica 61/3-4 (1986): p. 377.
Aesthetic Rationality as Social Norm.
Phänomenologische
Forschungen 20 (1987): pp. 69-90.
Italian translation:
Razionalità estetica
come norma sociale.
Metodologia 2
(1987): 93-101. Danish translation: Æstetisk
Rationalitæt som
social
Norm. In: Teknologi/Filosofi. Kampskrift til Dr. Theol. Peter Kemp, edited by
Søren F.
Lund and Arno Victor Nielsen.
Between Signification and Communication. Semiotica 65/3-4 (1987): pp. 327-342.
The
Thread of Subjectivity: Philosophical Remarks on Bühler’s
Language Theory. In Achim
Eschbach (ed.), Karl Bühler’s
Theory of Language.
Die Überwindung der Assoziationspsychologie durch zeichentheoretische Analyse: James, Peirce, Husserl und Bühler. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 10/4 (1988): pp. 149-173.
Giovanni Vailati: Pragmatism and the Analysis of Meaning. Differentia 3-4 (1989): pp. 177-198.
John Dewey’s ‘Technological’ Pragmatism. Kodikas/Code. 13/3-4 (1990): pp. 329-345.
Karl
Bühler. In
Sprachphilosophie. Philosophy of Language. La Philosophie du Langage.
A
Handbook, edited by Marcelo Dascal et
al.
Tacit Knowing, Gestalt Theory, and the Model of Perceptual Consciousness. Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, vol. 27 (1992): pp. 23-43.
The Analytic Telos of Semiotic. Semiotica 98-1/2 (1994): pp. 163-179.
From
Feeling to Mind: A Note on Langer’s Notion of
Symbolic Projection. In:In the World of Signs. Vol. 55 of
The Sign Trek Trilogy. The Semiotic Review of Books, Vol. 8.2 (May 1997): pp. 8-11.
Karl
Bühler, His Predecessors
and Successors. In Handbook
of Semiotics, edited by Roland Posner, Thomas Sebeok,
and Klaus Robering.
Thinking about Nature. Philosophy and Social Criticism. 24/5 (September 1998): pp. 127-136.
Pragmatism
and the Fate of
John Dewey et sa glose approfondie de la théorie peircienne de la qualité. Protée (Winter 1998/1999): pp. 89-98.
Cassirer’s Soft Edge. The Semiotic Review of Books 10/1 (January 1999): pp.10-12.
Peirce
and Polanyi: Perceptual Consciousness and the Structures
of Meaning. In The Peirce Seminar Papers:
Essays in Semiotic Analysis, vol. 4.
Karl
Bühler. Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Mindful Semiotics. The Semiotic Review of Books 11/1 (May 2000): 7-12. [A review article on David Lidov, Elements of Semiotics.]
Philosophy and the Play of Life. Focaal-European Journal of Anthropology 37 (2001): 121-142.
Perception,
Interpretation, and the Signs of Art. The
Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15/1 (2001): 20-32. [Slightly
different
version appears in French translation: La Perception, l’interpretation,
et les signes artistiques,
Sémiotique peircienne: état des Lieux,
eds. Tony Jappy et Joëlle
Réthoré.
Form
and Technics: Nature, Semiotics,
and the ‘Information Revolution.’ In Proceedings of the
International Association for Semiotic Studies.
Homing in on the Range. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 16/4 (2002): 264-272.
The ‘Meanings’ of Technology. Techne 7/1 (2003): 49-58.
The
Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments. Social Analysis
48/2 (2004):197-212. This issue published as a
book, Ritual in Its Own Right, edited
by Don Handelman and Galina Lindquist.
Meaning,
Art, and
Semiotics.
In Encyclopedia of
The Signs of Interpretation. Culture and Psychology 11(4):499-509 (2005).
Dimensions
of an Aesthetic Encounter. In: Semiotic Rotations: Modes
of Meaning in Cultural Worlds, edited by SunHee
Kim Gertz, Jaan
Valsiner, and Jean-Paul
Breaux.
The Making of the Literary Symbol: Taking Note of Langer. Semiotica 165-1/4 (2007): 91-106. Won the Mouton d’Or prize for best article of the year in Semiotica.
Placing
Langer’s Philosophical Project. The
Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
New Series, 21/1 (2007): 4-15.
Poles
of meaning: Pushing language up and down. Integrative Psychological
and Behavioral Science. 42/1 (2008): 20-26.
Response
to Tiles, “On Our Exosomatic
Existence.” Tradition
and Discovery: The Polanyi
Society Periodical. 34/2 (1997): 22-25.
Power. In: Encyclopedia
of American Philosophy.
Language
and the Thresholds of Sense: Some Aspects of the Failure of Words. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
22/2
(2008):106-117.
My
Way through Signs. Signs
and Meanings: Five Questions.
Semiotics of Technology. In:
A Companion
to Philosophy of
Technology.
Susanne
Langer. In:The Routledge
Companion to Semiotics. Edited by Paul Cobley. London:
Routledge, 2010, pp. 254-255.
Ernst
Cassirer. In: The Routledge
Companion to Semiotics, p. 185.
Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense. To appear in The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology, edited by Jaan Valsiner.
Framing Sympathy. Culture and Psychology. 16/2 2010: 287-296.
Minding Feeling. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 44 2010: 197-207.
Framing Hunger: Eating and Categories of Self-Development. To be published in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 24/3.
Fixation of Belief and the Dilemmas of Fallibility. To appear in Religion, Politics, and Globalization: Anthropological Approaches, edited by Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman. New York: Berghahn, pp. 263-275.
Book Reviews
Conceptual Idealism by Nicholas Rescher. Foundations of Language 14 (1976): pp. 287-295.
A
Meaning by Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch. Journal of Religion October, 1976.
James and Husserl: The Foundations of Meaning by Richard Stevens. Phenomenology Information Bulletin 1 (1978): pp. 18-19,
Husserl: Expositions and Appraisals by F. Elliston and P. McCormick. Thought (March 1978): pp. 215-216
The Way of Discovery by Richard Gelwick. Journal of Religion October, 1978.
Models of Man by Martin Hollis. Human Studies 1/4 (1978): pp. 395-398.
Experimental Phenomenology by Don Ihde. Thought (December 1978): pp. 453-454.
Listening and Voice by Don Ihde. Thought (June 1980): pp. 223-224
Critique of Taste by Galvano della Volpe. The Review of Metaphysics (September 1981): pp. 123-125.
The Role of the Reader by Umberto Eco. The Review of Metaphysics (September 1981): pp. 126-128.
On Human Communication by Colin Cherry. The Review of Metaphysics (December 1981): pp. 372-374.
Wittgenstein and Phenomenology by Nicholas Gier. The Review of Metaphysics (December 1982): pp. 449-451. Reviewed again in Phänomenologische Forschungen 13 (1982): pp. 170-174.
Ludwig Wittgenstein. Personal Recollections, edited by Rush Rhees. The Modern Schoolman (1982): pp. 211-211.
The Dimensionality of Signs, Tools, and Models, by James Bunn. International Philosophical Quarterly 23/1 (1983): pp. 105-106.
Introducing Semiotic. Its History and Doctrine by John Deely. International Philosophical Quarterly 23/3 (1983): pp. 336-338.
Theories of the Symbol by Tzvetan Todorov. The Review of Metaphysics (December 1983): pp. 429-431.
Merleau-Ponty: Language and the Act of Speech by Wayne Froman. The Review of Metaphysics (June 1985): pp. 887-888.
L’Semiosi e l’abduzione by Massimo A. Bonfantini. Journal of Pragmatics (1992): pp. 74-79.
Divine Beauty, by Daniel J. Dombrowski. SAAP Newsletter.
The Ethics of Creativity, by Brian Henning. SAAP Newsletter, No. 105, November 2006, pp. 71-74.
On Interpretive Activity, by Noel E. Boulting, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.
Lectures and Papers Read
1.
The Mind-Body
Problem in Polanyi. Philosophy Club,
2. Polanyi
and the Linguistic Subject.
Meeting of the Polanyi Society,
3.
Why is Language a Philosophical Problem?
4.
The Heuristic Relevance of Polanyi’s Epistemological
Model.
Congress on ‘Progress in Science and Methodology,’
sponsored by the
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung,
at
5. The Linguistic Dimension in Polanyi’s Thought. Skidmore College Conference on the Relevance of Polanyi’s Thought to the Various Disciplines, June 1977.
6. The Semiotic Relevance of Bühler’s Sprachtheorie, 2nd World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, University of Vienna, July 1979.
7.
A New Look at Aesthetic Consciousness. Delivered at seminar, by invitation only, on ‘Die Hermeneutik und die Künste
II (Das Problem der Sprache)’,
at the Inter-University Centre,
8.
Technics and the Bias of Perception.
Lecture
given, by invitation only, at conference on ‘Vernunft
und soziale Verständigung,
sponsored by the Institut für
die Wissenschaften vom
Menschen,
9.
Articulation as Emendation:
Philipp Wegener’s Antiformalist
Theory
of Language. Paper delivered at Semiotic Society of America meeting at
10. Die Spüren der Subjektivität in Bühler’s Sprachtheorie. Invited paper delivered at the Bühler-Symposium at the University of Essen, West Germany, November 1984.
11.
Karl Bühler’s
Semiotic Language Theory. Invited lecture to Graduate
Group in Semiotics and
Department of Linguistics, SUNY at
12. Ästhetische
Rationalität
als soziale
Norm. Invited
paper at the meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft
für phänomenologische
Forschung,
13.
Philosophical Aesthetics and the Concept of Performance. Invited paper at the Polish Academy of
Sciences/IREX meeting on ‘Performance in the Arts: Theory and
Practice,’
14.
Lecture on aesthetic rationality (in German) at
15.
Lecture on Philipp Wegener to Bochumer
Semiotisches Kolloquium,
Ruhr Universität,
16.
Lecture on aesthetic rationality as social norm (in Danish) at Filosofisk Forum,
17.
Lecture on semiotics and communication (in Danish) at Filosofisk Institut,
18. Signs
and Sense: Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty.
Lecture at the
annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America,
19. Gnoseologia
pragmatistica e l’analisi
dei segni (PragmaticTheory of
Knowledge and the Analysis of Signs). Lecture and discussion at the Società di cultura metodologico-operativa.
20.
Panel discussion on ‘Philosophische
Semiotik,’ International Congress of
German Society
for Semiotics,
21.
Commentator on Semiotic Models. Annual meeting of Semiotic
Society of
America,
22. The
Sense of Differentia. Discussion and presentation at
23. The
Multiple Motivations of Technology. Address to Tau Beta Pi, Engineering
Honor
Society, 3 December 1987,
24. The Sense
of Bühler’s Language Theory.
Lecture at
25. Lecture to Philosophy Colloquium at College of the Holy Cross. October 1988.
26. Giovanni Vailati:
Pragmatism and the Analysis of Meaning. Paper read
at meeting of American Association of Italian Studies.
27. The Body
in the Mind. Talk to Physics Honors Society,
28. Truth and
the Theory of Knowledge: The Trail of the Human Serpent. Plenary
lecture at
tenth anniversary celebration of Filosofisk
Forum.
29. Væsentlige
Aspekter af Sprogfilosofien (Essential
Aspects of the Philosophy of Language).
30.
Between Signs and Forms: Cassirer and the Semiotics of Culture.
Plenary
invited lecture at
31.
Tavs Erkendelse
og Gestaltteori
(Tacit Knowing
and Gestalt Theory). Filosofisk Forum.
32. Nøglebegreber
i Bühlers
Sprogteori (Pivotal
Concepts of Bühler’s Language
Theory). Selskab for Filosofi
og Psykologi.
33. The Rhythm of the Mind. Talk to Freshman Honor Society, UMass Lowell, 21 April 1994.
34. Aesthetic Critique. Northeast Association of 18th Century Studies. College of the Holy Cross, September 1996.
35. Aesthetic Critique. Annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division, March 1997.
36.
Pragmatism and the Fate of
37.
Peirce and Polanyi: Perceptual Consciousness and the Structures
of
Meaning. International Colloquium on Language and Peircean
Sign-Theory,
38.
Thinking about Nature. Presented at the annual meeting of the
Society
for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
39.
Form and Technics: Cassirer Thinks
about Mind,
Media, and the Soft Edge. Presented at the annual meeting of the
Semiotic
Society of America,
40. Language
and the Thresholds of Sense. Presented at the meeting of the
International
Association of Cognitive Linguistics,
41. Form and Technics:
Nature, Semiotics, and the Information
Revolution. Presented at the meeting of the International Association
for
Semiotic Studies,
42.
Noticing
43.
Perception, Interpretation, and the
Signs of
Art. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Phenomenology
and
Existential Philosophy. October 2000.
44.
Discussion
leader for Robert Corrington, A
Semiotic Theory of Philosophy and Theology. Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy Meeting,
45.
The
Sources of Langer’s Aesthetics. Presented at the meeting of the
American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting,
46.
The
Meanings of Technology. Presented at the meeting of the American
Philosophical
Association, Central Division Meeting,
47.
Perception,
Interpretation, and the Signs of Art. Paper discussed at the Peirce
Seminar
June 2001 meeting at Canet en Rousillon
(
48.
Homing
in on the Range. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for
the
Advancement of American Philosophy,
49.
Meaning,
Art, and
50.
Language
and the Forms of Sense. Paper presented at Symposium on Language and
Semiotics,
51.
Presentation
at Semiotics Workshop, sponsored by
52.
The Relevance of the Semiotics of
C.S. Peirce
for the Social Sciences. Seminar conducted at
53.
First opponent presentation at DPhil defence
devoted to Jesper
Hoffmeyer, Livets tegn og
tegnenes livet,
54. Presentation at Semiotics Workshop, sponsored by Henry Leir Center of Clark University, Chateau Schengen, Luxembourg, June 2005.
55. Royce and
Religious Naturalism. APA December 2006.
56. Placing
Langer’s Philosophical Project. SAAP March 2007,
57. An Aesthetic Encounter: Thinking about
Art with Susanne Langer. Lyceum for Applied Philosophy, April 2007,
58.
The Failure
of Words. American Philosophies Forum.
March 2008.
59.
Susanne
Langer: The Symbolic Mind. Seminar at the Summer Institute for American
Philosophy,
Areas of Specialization
Theory of Knowledge Semiotics and Language Theory
World Philosophy Aesthetics
Philosophy of Technology American Philosophy
Courses Taught
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Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Ethics Philosophy of Education Medieval Thought History of Modern Philosophy: 19th and 20th Centuries Philosophy and the 20th Century The Self and Transcendental Philosophy Philosophy of History Philosophy of Religion Marx,
Man, and Society Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Science as a Way of Knowing (graduate) World
Philosophies |
Philosophy of Language Language, Signs, and Symbols Symbols and Society Ways
of Knowing (undergrad. & grad./Lowell & Philosophy of Art and Beauty Philosophy
and Technology (undergrad. & grad./Lowell and Philosophy
and Semiotics (graduate course in Art
and Philosophy (graduate course in American Philosophy God and Philosophy |