Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words : 100 Years of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition.

In 2014, Peirce will have been dead for one hundred years. The book will celebrate this extraordinary, prolific thinker and the relevance of his idea for semiotics, communication, and cognitive studies. More importantly, however, it will provide a major statement of the current status of Peirce'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thellefsen, Torkild
Other Authors: Sørensen, Bent, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.
Series:Semiotics, Communication and Cognition SCC.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword ; Preface by Cornelis de Waal ; Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Primary Sources and Abbreviations ; 1 Aesthetic Value in Peirce's Theistic Naturalism ; 2 Man, Word, and the Other ; 3 Semiotic Gold at the End of Peirce's Rainbow: on the Fallible Pursuit of Reality.
  • 4 Testimony and the Self 5 Against Pretend Doubt ; 6 Motion and Thought
  • a Generic Metaphor ; 7 Peirce on Realism and Nominalism: the Metaphysics and Ethics of a Community of Inquirers ; 8 Peircean Inquiry and Secret Communication ; 9 Peirce on Non-Accidental Causes of Belief.
  • 10 Scientific Method and the Realist Hypothesis 11 Logic is Rooted in the Social Principle (and vice versa) ; 12 Reasoning is Communal in Method and Spirit ; 13 The Bottomless Lake of Consciousness ; 14 Physical Laws are not Habits, while Rules of Life are.
  • 15 Semiosis: from Taxonomy to Process 16 Is Peirce's Fallibilism an Ethical Attitude? ; 17 Peirce's Fallibilism in the Context of the Theory of Cognition and the Theory of Inquiry ; 18 Diagrams or Rubbish ; 19 How does Cognition come from Chance?
  • 20 Peirce's Graph of "a Sort of Equilateral Hyperbola" 21 Icons and Indices Assert Nothing ; 22 Bohemians, Like Me ; 23 Peirce's Evolutionary Thought ; 24 Peirce's Guess at the Sphinx's Riddle: The symbol as the Mind's Eyebeam ; 25 Love as Attention in Peirce's Thought.