What is John Deely?
[[Image:John deely.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John Deely in 2009]] '''John Deely''' (April 26, 1942 – January 7, 2017) was an American [[philosopher]] and [[semiotician]].<ref>See Paul Cobley’s remark, in ''Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader'' (ed. Cobley), p. 3: “While Charles Sanders Peirce is acknowledged as the greatest American philosopher, John Deely, in his wake, is arguably the most important ''living'' American philosopher.” Cf. in same volume the multifarious and world-spanning recommendations of Deely’s work from countries as diverse as Africa, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the US.</ref> He was a Professor of [[Philosophy]] at Saint Vincent College and Seminary in [[Latrobe, Pennsylvania]]. He was at the Center for Thomistic Studies of the [[University of St. Thomas (Houston)|University of St. Thomas]] in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]. He was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. Deely died in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on January 7, 2017 from [[cancer]], aged 74.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://semioticsocietyofamerica.org/2017/01/07/john-deely-the-loss-of-a-dear-friend/ |title=John Deely: The Loss of a Dear Friend |access-date=2017-01-09 |archive-date=2017-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109004435/https://semioticsocietyofamerica.org/2017/01/07/john-deely-the-loss-of-a-dear-friend/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Deely, John}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:American philosophers]] [[Category:Educators from Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Writers from Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Writers from Chicago]] [[Category:People from Latrobe, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Writers from Houston]] [[Category:Educators from Houston]] [[Category:Educators from Chicago]] {{US-bio-stub}}