Vincent Colapietro

Who is Vincent Colapietro?

Vincent Colapietro is a Liberal Arts Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His education includes a bachelors degree from Saint Anselm College, a masters degree from Marquette University and a Ph.D. from Marquette University. While his principal area of historical research is classical American pragmatism, he has wide and varied scholarly interests. They range from such literature, film, and music to semiotics, poststructuralism, and psychoanalysis, from social and political philosophy to philosophical and experimental psychology. He is the author of Peirce’s Approach to the Self, A Glossary of Semiotics, and Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom as well as scores of articles. The main focus of his current research is the intersections between pragmatism and psychoanalysis. His writings have been translated into a variety of languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Bulgarian, and Japanese. Chair of the Advisory Board of the Peirce Edition Project. Co-editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. He is past president of the Metaphysical Society of America, the Semiotic Society of America, and the Charles S. Peirce Society.