Vincent Colapietro is an adjunct professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island.
While his principal area of historical research is classical American pragmatism (especially Peirce, James, and Dewey), he has wide and varied scholarly interests.
They range from such literature, film, and music (above all, jazz) 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.
His writings have been translated into a variety of languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Bulgarian, and Japanese.