IU School of Liberal Arts

David Pfeifer

Campus Address: ES 0017N
Phone: (317) 278-2306
Email: depfeife@iupui.edu
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Appointments

Director, Institute for American Thought

Education

B.A. North Park College - 1964;
M.A., Ph.D. University of Illinois - 1966, 1971

Academic Interests

Charles S. Peirce;
History of American Philosophy;
Pragmatism

Publications

*Managing Editor (since 1998), The Press of Arisbe Associates. Publishes the Peirce Studies monograph series.
*“Charles Peirce, The Nation, and God,” will be published in an anthology on Peirce’s religious thought in 2008.
*A biography of Francis Wayland has been completed for inclusion in the Dictionary of Early American Philosophy.
*“Peirce’s Semiosis and Concept of God” was presented at the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion annual conference at Oxford University, 11-13 September 2008.
*A Source Book of materials for a medical history of Charles Peirce has been assembled from Peirce’s papers and correspondence; the Source Book has been given to medical professionals for their evaluation.
*A paper on the St. Louis Hegelians and the Cambridge Pragmatists was presented April 12, 2008 on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the St. Louis Hegelian’s philosophical society at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, in press.
*"Charles Peirce, the Quasi-Mind, and God," Semiotic Society of America conference, October, 2008, published in proceedings. *"Peirce's Semiosis and Three Grades of Clearness," Semiotic society of America conference, October 2009.

Service

Member, Historic Elsah Foundation, 1978- (Regularly serve in museum.)
Trustee (Secretary/Treasurer), QEM Fire Protection District, Elsah, IL., 1996-
President, Nelson Foundation, an environmental foundation funding local endeavors, 2001-2008.
Board Member, Meeting of the Rivers Foundation, a civic group supporting the USACOE museum at Lock & Dam 26 on the Mississippi River, 2001-2008.

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