On the trail of mind: Nathan Houser discusses Peirce, Pragmatism and Cognition

Abstract

Interview with Professor Emeritus Nathan Houser, philosopher, editor, and director of the Peirce Edition Project for 15 years. In this conversation, Houser provides a living history of the institutional, editorial, and conceptual conditions that enabled the dissemination and development of Peirce’s ideas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Houser’s voice—lucid, historically informed, and methodologically pluralistic—resonates as both a witness to the maturation of Peircean scholarship and as an advocate for its future development across disciplinary boundaries.