Robert E. Innis
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Degrees
Ph.D.
STB.
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.
Susanne
Langer in Focus: The Symbolic Mind. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press,
2009.
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.
Ernst Cassirer. In: The Routledge Companion to Semiotics, p. 185.
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 2010.
Fixation of Belief and the Dilemmas of Fallibility.
To
appear in Religion, Politics, and Globalization:
Anthropological
Approaches, edited by Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman.
Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense. To appear in The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology, edited by Jaan Valsiner.
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,
Noticing
Perception,
Interpretation, and the Signs of Art. Presented at the annual meeting
of the
Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. October 2000.
Discussion
leader
for Robert Corrington, A Semiotic
Theory of
Philosophy and Theology. Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy
Meeting,
The
Sources of
Langer’s Aesthetics. Presented at the meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting,
The
Meanings of
Technology. Presented at the meeting of the American Philosophical
Association,
Central Division Meeting,
Perception,
Interpretation, and the Signs of Art. Paper discussed at the Peirce
Seminar
June 2001 meeting at Canet en Rousillon
(
Homing
in on the
Range. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for the
Advancement of
American Philosophy,
Meaning,
Art, and
Language
and the
Forms of Sense. Paper presented at Symposium on Language and Semiotics,
Presentation
at
Semiotics Workshop, sponsored by
The
Relevance of the Semiotics of C.S. Peirce for the Social Sciences.
Seminar
conducted at
First
opponent presentation at DPhil defence
devoted to Jesper Hoffmeyer, Livets
tegn og tegnenes
livet,
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 |