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Elizabeth F . Cooke, PhD

Professor

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College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 115

Elizabeth F . Cooke, PhD

Professor

Teaching Interests

  • Pragmatism, Philosophy of Science, American Philosophy

Department

Philosophy

Position

Professor

Books

  • Pragmatic Reason
    Cooke Elizabeth F., 182Is Creativity an Intellectual Virtue? [Book Chapter] 2023
  • The Philosophy of TV Noir
    Abrams Jerold J., Cooke Elizabeth F., Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files [Book Chapter] 2015
  • Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Peirce and the 'Flood of False Notions' [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy
    Cooke Elizabeth F, “Let it Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope [Book Chapter] 2007
  • The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
    Cooke Elizabeth F., UNDERSTANDING THE ENEMY The Dialogue of Fear in Fear and Desire and Dr. Strangelove [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Cooke Elizabeth F, Peirce's pragmatic theory of inquiry 2006
  • Full: In (pp. 80-92) Decker
    Cooke Elizabeth F, 'Be mindful of the living force': environmental ethics in Star Wars [Book Chapter] 2005
  • Cooke Elizabeth F., Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters 2002

Publications

  • Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
    de Waal Cornelis, Cooke Elizabeth, Atkins Richard Kenneth, De Tienne Andre, Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2023
    60:1, p. COV7 2024
  • Pluralist (Champaign, Ill.)
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Pragmatism and Ontological Pluralism: Peirce, Cartwright, and Dupré
    15:3, p. 56 - 81 2020
  • European journal of pragmatism and American philosophy
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Peirce on Musement The Limits of Purpose and the Importance of Noticing
    10:2 2018
  • Analysis (Oxford)
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Pragmatism as a Way of Life
    78:4, p. 754 - 766 2018
  • Analysis
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Review of 'The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism' by Christopher Hookway.
    74:1, p. 170 - 171 2014
  • Chinese semiotic studies = Zhongguo fu hao xue yan jiu
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Peirce on Wonder, Inquiry and the Semiotic Ubiquity of Surprise
    8:1, p. 178 - 200 2012
  • Chinese semiotic studies = Zhongguo fu hao xue yan jiu
    Cooke Elizabeth F., The Pragmatic Maxim and the Idea of Necessity in Mathematical Inquiry
    6:1, p. 241 - 267 2012
  • Cybernetics & human knowing
    Cooke Elizabeth, Peirce on the Cognition of Reality Through Error Recognition
    19:1, p. 33 - 45 2012
  • Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Phenomenology of Error and Surprise: Peirce, Davidson, and McDowell
    47:1, p. 62 - 86 2011
  • Chinese semiotic studies = Zhongguo fu hao xue yan jiu
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Understanding Peirce's Mathematical Inquiry as a Practice: Some Ontological Implications
    3:1, p. 245 - 262 2010
  • Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
    Cooke Elizabeth, Transcendental Hope: Peirce, Hookway, and Pihlström on the Conditions for Inquiry
    41:3, p. 651 - 674 2005
  • Southwest philosophy review
    , THE LIMITS OF CONVERSATION
    21:1, p. 205 - 212 2005
  • Contemporary pragmatism
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Rorty on Conversation as an Achievement of Hope
    1:1, p. 83 - 102 2004
  • Southwest philosophy review
    , FALLIBILISM, PROGRESS, AND THE LONG RUN IN PEIRCE’S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
    20:1, p. 155 - 162 2004
  • Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
    Cooke Elizabeth F., On the possibility of a pragmatic discourse bioethics: Putnam, Habermas, and the normative logic of bioethical inquiry
    28:6-May, p. 635 - 653 2003
  • Bioethics
    Cooke Elizabeth F., Germ-line engineering, freedom, and future generations
    17:1, p. 32 - 58 2003
  • Philosophia Mathematica
    Cook E. F., Cooke Elizabeth F., Peirce, Fallibilism, and the Science of Mathematics†
    11:2, p. 158 - 175 2003
  • Ancient philosophy (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    , The Moral and Intellectual Development of the Philosopher in Plato’s Republic
    19:1, p. 37 - 44 1999
  • Kinesis (Carbondale, Ill.)
    Cooke E, Normativity in Hume's theory of meaning
    25:2, p. 36 - 59 1998