Description: With the help of Peirce's semiotics, motherhood can be conceived as an immigrant identity: both involve a culturally and internally disruptive transition.
Brief description: John J. Kaag is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of Idealism, Pragmatism and Feminism (Lexington Press, 2011)and a number of articles on the history of the American philosophical tradition.