The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authorsGand their colleagues and studentsGover the past decade and a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which Charles Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and a realist. The dialogue began as an exploration of PeirceGs explicit uses of these ideas and then turned to consider the way in which answers to the initial question shed light on other dimensions of PeirceGs architectonic. The essays explore the nature of semiotic interpretation, perception, and inquiry. Moreover, considering the roles of ide