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Joseph Morton Ransdell (1931–2010) was an associate professor of philosophy from 1974 to 2000 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock,
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. A native of
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,
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, Ransdell in 1961 received his
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degree in philosophy from San Francisco State University in
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,
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. He subsequently obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from
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in
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, where he wrote his dissertation on Peirce. Before coming to Texas Tech, Ransdell taught philosophy at the
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in Santa Barbara and then spent a year in
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,
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, to write his book ''Pursuit of Wisdom.'' He wrote chiefly about
Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss (philosopher), Paul ...
and his theory of representation. He was also interested in
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and the Socratic
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. He was president of the Charles S. Peirce Society in 1999 and has been published in journals such as '' The Journal of Philosophy'', '' Semiotica'', ''Ètudes Phénoménologiques'', ''Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society''
table of contents
, and ''SEED Journal'', and in various anthologies. (See Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography#Ransdell.). Among Peirce scholars Ransdell is identified with the view that Peirce's views underwent development but not a radical shift, and that Peirce's 1867 " On a New List of Categories" is foundational for all of Peirce's subsequent philosophical work. On this see in particular Ransdell's "T. L. Short on Peirce's Semeiotic" in ''Transactions'' v. 43, n. 4, fall 2007
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. Ransdell originated and maintained a large Website ''Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway'' and, since 1993, the peirce-l philosophical forum,peirce-l is not Peirce-l (with an initial capital letter), which is a genealogy email list. with four hundred members from three dozen countries, for those interested in Peirce's philosophy.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ransdell, Joseph Morton 21st-century American philosophers 20th-century American philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce 1931 births 2010 deaths People from Oklahoma City San Francisco State University alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Texas Tech University faculty