Roberta "Bobbie" Kevelson (November 4, 1931 – November 28, 1998) was an American academic and semiotician. She was an acknowledged authority on the pragmatism theories of Charles Sanders Peirce.
Career
During her postdoctoral time at Yale University (1979–1981), she introduced the concept of legal semiotics. She had joined the philosophy faculty of the Berks Campus at Penn State in 1981, where she was awarded the AMOCO Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award in 1986.
Works
Several works are included in the Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography.
- Kevelson, Roberta (1986), Charles S. Peirce's Method of Methods, John Benjamins Publishing Co. (February 1986), 180 pages, hardcover (, ), JB catalog page.
- Kevelson, Roberta, ed. (1991), Peirce and Law: Issues in Pragmatism, Legal Realism, and Semiotics, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 225 pages, hardcover (), PLPG catalog page.
- Kevelson, Roberta (1993), Peirce's Esthetics of Freedom, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 360 pages, hardcover (), PLPG catalog page.
- Kevelson, Roberta (1996), Peirce, Science, Signs, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 206 pages, hardcover (), PLPG catalog page.
- Kevelson, Roberta (1998 April), Peirce's Pragmatism: The Medium as Method, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 204 pages, hardcover (), PLPG catalog page.
- Kevelson, Roberta (1999), Peirce and the Mark of the Gryphon, Palgrave, 239 pages, hardcover (, ). Draws from unpublished Peirce manuscripts.