Walker Percy, Philosopher

Foreword - Richard Gunderman The significance of Walker Percy from the perspective of a practising medical clinician and philosopher-ethicist.
1. Introducing Walker Percy: Philosopher of Precision and Soul - Leslie Marsh An overview of Percy's life and work.
2. Percy, Peirce and Parsifal: Intuition's Farther Shore - Stephen Utz An examination of Percy's understanding of Peirce and Chomsky's innateness hypothesis.
3. Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language - Carolyn Culbertson An emphasis on Heidegger and the philosophy of language.
4. That Mystery Category "Fourthness" and Its Relationship to the Work of C. S. Peirce - Stacey E. Ake Percy, Pierce, semiotics and phenomenology.
5. Diamonds in the Rough: The Peirce-Percy Semiotic in The Second Coming - Karey Perkins Emphasizing the Peirce-Percy semiotic in Percy's fiction.
6. Walker Percy's Intersubjectivity: An Existential Semiotic or 3 + 3 = 4 - Rhonda McDonnell Emphasizing the existentialist-type semiotic in Percy's work.
7. A Hard Fact of Life: A Commentary on Percy's "Peirce and Modern Semiotic" - Kenneth Laine Ketner The doyen of Peirce-Percy studies examines a heretofore unpublished Percy MS.
8. An Attempt Toward A Natural/UnNatural History of The Lay-Scientific Interface or How Walker Percy Got on the Way to Becoming a Radical (Anthropologist) - Scott Cunningham Excavating Percy's attempt at a scientific-philosophical anthropology.
9. Percy's Poetics of Dwelling: The Dialogical Self and the Ethics of Reentry in The Last Gentleman and Lost in the Cosmos - Christopher Yates An examination of Existential authenticity in one novel and in a prominent last work of non-fiction.
10. Placement, Nonplacement, Displacement: Walker Percy and the Philosophy of Place - Patrick Connelly Discussion of situated beings and the relation to social identity and personhood.
11. Jadedness, Appreciation, and Humility: Walker Percy's Philosophical Contributions - Nathan Carson Percy on psychological jadedness and its theological-philosophical-epistemic implications.
12. Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction - Brian A. Smith Discussion of socio-cultural alienation in Percy's work.