andre detienne

Research interests: Peirce, American Pragmatism, Pragmatistic Textual Theory.

Graduate education: M.A. with highest distinction, Catholic University of Louvain, 1984; Ph.D. with highest distinction, Catholic University of Louvain, 1991.

Representative publications:

Scholarly editions & edited works: Charles S. Peirce, "[Hypotheses of Space and Time: A Response to Kant]: Appendix No. 2," edited by Andre De Tienne, with an introduction (637-44), and textual and explanatory notes (670-3), in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 29(4) (1993): 637-73. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 5: 1884-1886 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), Assistant Editor. The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Volume 2: 1893-1913 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998), Assistant Editor. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 6: 1886-1890 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), Associate Editor.

Books and articles: L'Analytique de la representation chez Peirce: la genese de la theorie des categories (Brussels: Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis, 1996). "Peirce's Search for a Method of Finding the Categories," Versus 49 (Peirceana, gennaio-aprile 1988): 19-30. "Peirce's Early Method of Finding the Categories," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25(4) (1989): 385-406. "Peirce's Early Semiotic Analysis of Representation," Semiotics 1988, eds. T. Prewitt, J. Deely, and K. Haworth (Lanham, NY: University Press of America, 1989), 93-102. "La genese des concepts fondamentaux de la phenomenologie de Charles S. Peirce," Etudes phenomenologiques 5 (9-10) (1989): 9-50. "Le concept d'objet dans les premiers ecrits de Peirce," Cruzeiro Semiotico 14 (Janeiro 1991): 57-64. "The Many Forms of Peirce's Manuscripts: A Guess at the Riddle," Signs of Humanity—L'Homme et ses signes, eds. Michel Balat and Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, Volume 3, Semiotics in the World—La Semiotique dans le monde (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992), 1269-76. "Peirce's Semiotic Monism," Ibid., 1291-98. "Peirce's Definitions of the Phaneron," in Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science, Papers from the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, ed. Edward C. Moore (Tuscaloosa & London: University of Alabama Press, 1993), 279-88. "Selecting Alterations for the Apparatus of a Critical Edition," in TEXT 9, An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, ed. D. C. Greetham & W. Speed Hill (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), 33-62. "Peirce's Revolution: Semiotic vs. Transcendental Unity," in Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity, ed. Irmengard Rauch & Gerald F. Carr (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), 1069-1072. "The Peirce Papers: How to Pick Up Manuscripts that Fell to the Floor," in TEXT 10, An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, ed. W. Speed Hill & Edward M. Burns (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), 259-282. "Phenomenon vs. Sign, Appearance vs. Representation," in Semiotics 1999, eds. Scott Simpkins, C. W. Spinks, and John Deely (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), 419-31. "Lernen, Geist, Semiose," Zeitschrift für Semiotik 22(1) (2000): 11-30.

Awards and honors: Laureate of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Prize of the 1993 Annual Contest, for a memoir entitled "L'Analytique de la representation dans les premiers ecrits de Charles S. Peirce." Laureate of the Prix Daniel Coppieters de Gibson 1992, a prize awarded by the Research Council of the Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels for the Ph.D. dissertation. Winner of Peirce Essay Contest, The Charles S. Peirce Society, 1988. Prix Joseph Dopp 1986 (Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic Univ. of Louvain) for the M.A. thesis.

Grants and fellowships: Bourse Firmin Van Bree fellowship, awarded conjointly by the Belgian American Educational Foundation and the Fondation Hoover pour le Developpement de l'Universite de Louvain (U.C.L.), 1985-86; IUPUI International Development Fund (co-awardee), 2000-01; Indiana University Arts and Humanities Research Grant (co-investigator), 2001.