Kermit Snelson is a software architect, a computer scientist, and a collaborating member of the Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos (IEF) at the Universidade de Coimbra. Within his activities at the IEF, his research focus covers the strategic area "Care, Patrimony and History of Philosophy". His early work on commercial applications of semantic networks in spatial databases, classical music metadata and digital identity led him to discover John F. Sowa's work on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce, an interest which has since evolved into a general research program focused on an emerging programming paradigm called subject-orientation. This in turn has led him to the study of foundational issues in the science of logic and therefore to the study of related work by Gotthard Günther, Stéphane Lupasco, George Spencer-Brown, William Stephenson, Jaakko Hintikka, Raymond Ruyer, Raymond Abellio and Alexander Zinoviev, along with currently emerging fields such as universal logic and oppositional geometry. This technical research has recently taken a historical turn, developing the hypothesis that the logical conception of the subject is the key to understanding semiotics as "a matrix for all the sciences" (Deely) and consequently as a descendant of earlier cosmological schemes such as Goethe's morphology. Snelson holds a degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and studied closely with that institution's John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought.