Vincent M. Colapietro is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University at the Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York. He is known for his work in two overlapping fields, classical American philosophy and semiotics. Colapietro is the author of Peirce's Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective on Human Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 1989) and has published numerous articles in such journals as The Journal of Philosophy, The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and The Bucknell Review.