Robert E. Innis is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has been Humboldt Fellow at the University of Cologne, Fulbright Professor at the University of Copenhagen, and Obel Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalborg University in the Center for Cultural Psychology. His books include Karl Bühler: Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory, Consciousness and the Play of Signs, Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense, Susanne Langer in Focus: The Symbolic Mind, and Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology. He has published many articles and chapters dealing with the relations between philosophy, semiotics, and psychology and the aesthetic dimensions of life.