Thomas Lloyd Short is a published philosopher of science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, teleology

Teleology

A teleology is any philosophical account which holds that final causes exist in nature, meaning that design and purpose analogous to that found in human actions are inherent also in the rest of nature. The word comes from the Greek τέλος, telos; root: τελε-, "end, purpose...

, semeiotic

Semeiotic

Semeiotic is a spelling variant of a word used by Charles Sanders Peirce, likewise as "Semiotic," "Semiotics", and "Semeotic", to refer to his philosophical logic, which he cast as the study of signs, or semiotic. Some, not all, Peircean scholars have used "semeiotic" to refer to distinctly...

s, and conceptual change, specializing in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Career

Short earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Texas

University of Texas System

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. He was an associate professor of philosophy at Kenyon College

Kenyon College

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 (Gambier, Ohio) for 23 years. In 1990 he was President of the Charles S. Peirce Society. In 1998 he won the Mouton d'Or Award for the best essay published in Semiotica. Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. He has authored numerous articles published in various scholarly collections and in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly

American Philosophical Quarterly

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, Grazer Philosophische Studien, The Monist

The Monist

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, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Biology and Philosophy, and Synthese

Synthese

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. From 2001 to 2008 he served as chair of the Board of Advisors to the Peirce Edition Project and continues as a regular member on the Board currently. (PEP produced The Essential Peirce v. 2 and the Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volumes 1–6 and 8 published to date of a projected 30.) In 2007 Cambridge University Press published Short's book Peirce's Theory of Signs.

Short is often referred to as "T. L. Short", "Thomas L. Short", "Thomas Short", and "Tom Short", as well as "Thomas Lloyd Short". Searches on all variants of Short's name in connection with Peirce: via Google and via Yahoo!.

Works

For a list of Short's many articles (as well as his book) on Peirce, see Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography#Short.

Other articles:

• "Divergent Sources of Conservatism", Modern Age 44:1, winter 2002. First Things
  First Things
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  Eprint.

Reviews by Short:

• "Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America" in National Review
  National Review
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  , June 11, 1990. Review of Page Smith's book. Bnet Eprint.
• "The Idea of the University: A Re-examination" in National Review, June 2, 1992. Review of Jaroslav Pelikan's book. Bnet Eprint.
• "Impostors in the Temple: American Intellectuals Are Destroying Our Universities and Cheating Our Students of Their Future" in National Review, August 17, 1992. Review of Martin Anderson's book. Bnet Eprint.
• "The Educational Ideas of the American Founders, by Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle" in National Review, April 4, 1994, Bnet Eprint.
• "Sham Scholarship" in Modern Age 44:4, fall 2002. Critical review of Menand's The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
  The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
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  . First Things Eprint (the second review is the one by Short).