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Phone: (910) 962-7392
Email: turrisip@uncw.edu
Web Site: http://people.uncw.edu/turrisip

 

Degrees

• Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
• M.A., Pennsylvania State University
• B.A., Queens College City University of New York

Areas of Expertise

• Philosophy of Science
• American Philosophy

Recent Publications

• “Peirce’s Vera Causa of Guessing” Cognitio 6.2 (2005): 255-264.
•  “The Abduction in Deduction and the Deduction in Abduction,” Semiotica 153. 4 (2005).
• Swimming in the Electronic Current: Elements of an Online Course, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington Publishing Laboratory. 2003
• “The role of Peirce’s Pragmatism in Education”/”O papel do pragmatismo de Peirce na educaçao” Cognitio (2002): 122-136.
• C. S. Peirce's Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking, 1903 Lectures on Pragmatism, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Courses Taught

• PAR 101: Invitation to Philosophical Thinking
• PAR 110: Introduction to Logic
• PAR 115: Introduction to Ethics
• PAR 205: American Philosophy
• PAR 211: Philosophy of Human Nature
• PAR 292: Philosophical Writing
• PAR 345: Philosophy of Science
• PAR 360: Philosophy of Evolution
• PAR 400: Issues in Personal Identity

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