Richard S. Robin
Current Position: Mount Holyoke College, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy.
Degrees: B.A. Harvard University 1948; Ph.D. Harvard University 1958.
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Critical Common-Sensism: A Study in the Philosophy of C. S. Peirce
. Dissertation, Harvard University. v + 224 pp.1964
Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Second Series. Edited by Richard S. Robin and Edward C. Moore. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964. xi + 525 pp.
"Peirce's Doctrine of the Normative Sciences." In Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Second Series, edited by Richard S. Robin and Edward C. Moore (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964), pp. 271-288.
1967
Annotated Catalog of the Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1967. xxviii + 268 pp.
1971
"The Peirce Papers: A Supplementary Catalogue." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 7.1 (Winter 1971): 37-57.
1981
"Peirce on the Foundations of Knowledge." In Proceedings of the C.S. Peirce Bicentennial International Congress, edited by Kenneth L. Ketner (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1981), pp. ??
1988
"Some Questions Concerning Peirce's 'Proof' of Pragmatism." In Gedankenzeichen: Festschrift für Klaus Oehler zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Regina Claussen and Roland Daube-Schackat (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1988), pp. ??
1994
From Time and Chance to Consciousness: Studies in the Metaphysics of Charles Peirce. Edited by Richard S. Robin and Edward C. Moore. Oxford: Berg, 1994. xi + 269 pp.
"Metaphysical Reflections on Peirce on Chess." In From Time and Chance to Consciousness: Studies in the Metaphysics of Charles Peirce, edited by Richard S. Robin and Edward C. Moore (Oxford: Berg, 1994), pp. 247-260.
1997
"Classical Pragmatism and Pragmatism's Proof." In The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, edited by Jacqueline Brunning and Paul Forster (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. ??
Papers by Richard Shale Robin
"Normative Science." APA Divisional Meeting, 1958.
"Pragmatism and Realism." Association for Realistic Philosophy, 1959.
"Critical Common-sensism." APA Divisional Meeting, 1962.
"Peirce's Pragmatism." Matchette Lecture in American Philosophy. Catholic University, 1975.
"Foundationalism." Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1976.
"On the Idea of a Philosophical Museum." Peirce Museum Exploratory Conference, Milford, Pennsylvania, 1977.
"Philosophy of Science: Jaspers and Peirce." APA Divisional Meeting, 1980.
"Emerson as Philosopher." Tohoku Chapter, American Literature Society of Japan, 1984.
"Why Dewey Today? Some Reflections on the Philosophy of Education." Tohuku Association of the History and Philosophy of Education, 1984.
"Is There an American Philosophy?" Tohoku Association for American Studies, 1984.
"New Developments in Philosophy of Science." Japan Society for Philosophy of Science, 1984.
Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar. Nine formal lectures and eight seminars, ranging over the history of American philosophy, 1984.
Lecture tour in South Korea, sponsored by the Daewoo Foundation. Seoul National University, Hanyang University, Sogang University, The Academy for Korean Studies, The Society for Analytic Philosophy, The Harvard Club of Seoul, 1984. Lectures dealing primarily and narrowly with epistemological issues.
Other papers, subsequent to 1984, were read at the Santayana Conference, Avila, Spain; World Congress, Moscow; Aristotle University, Thessalonika, Greece; and at Divisional Meetings of the APA and the Semiotic Society of America.