James Jakób Liszka is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life and Professor of Philosophy at The State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. He is also Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Area Studies. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and was Visiting Professor at Beijing Language and Culture University and the China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing. He was Humanities Fellow at the University of Toronto, Scarborough College. He is the author of Pragmatist Ethics: A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters (2021), Moral Competence (2002), A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles S. Peirce (1996), and The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol (1989). He has also published several articles on ethical theory, environmental ethics, pragmatism and narrative theory.