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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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Sorensen, Bent; Thellefsen, Torkild
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Semiotics, communication and cognition [scc]; 14
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614516415
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Summary: 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's work within semiotics. The volume will be a contribution to both semiotics and Peirce studies.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xxvi,606pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9781614516415
Index Number: P85
CLC: H022
Contents: 49. Words that Matter: Peirce and the Ethics of Scientific Terminology /
50. The Curious Case of Peirce s Anthropomorphism /
51. Peirce and the "Flood of False Notions" /
52. Peirce on Science, Practice, and the Permissibility of Stout Belief /
53. Logic, Time, and Knowledge /
54. The Hypoicons /
55. The Phenomenon of Reasoning /
56. Peirce s Abduction /
57. Terminology and Scientific Advancement /
58. Fibers of Abduction /
59. Experience and Education /
60. Peirce, Pragmatism, and Purposive Action /
61. Peirce s Method of Work /
62. Metaphysics of Wickedness /
63. A Pragmaticist Appreciates the Past /
64. Peirce s Logotheca /
65. Animals use Signs, They just don't know it /
66. A Purely Mathematical Way for Peirce's Semiotics /
67. Pragmatism, Cultural Lags and Moral Self-Reflection /
68. Peirce on Hegel, Pragmaticism, and "the Triadic Class of Philosophical Doctrines" /
69. Science as a Communicative Mode of Life /
70. Not an Individual, but a dual Self (at least) /
71. Science and Metaphysics /
72. The Semiosphere: A Synthesis of the Physio-, Bio-, Eco-, and Technospheres /
73. Peirce s Persistent Interest in Economics /
74. The River of Pragmatism /
75. Visualizing Reason /
76. Self-Control, Self-Surrender, and Self-Constitution: The Large Significance of an "Afterthought" /
77. The Peircean Concept of Existential Graph and Discovery in Mathematics /
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Frontmatter --
Foreword --
Preface /
Table of contents --
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 /
26. A Person is Lik