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8An Empiricism with High Metaphysical Ambitions: On Short's Charles Peirce and Modern ScienceTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 59 (4): 388-403. 2024.T.L. Short’s _Charles Peirce and Modern Science,_ in which he discusses Peirce’s intimate relation to modern science, simultaneously functions as Short’s own philosophical testament. Short’s overall argument is that Peirce takes _inquiry_ to be the main definition of science, implying that all other definition attempts or central issues of science are but products of inquiry: methods, experiments, observations, conclusions, results, syntheses, theory buildings, system constructions, laws, predic…Read more
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38Diagrammatic reasoning: Abstraction, interaction, and insightPragmatics and Cognition 22 (2): 264-283. 2014.Many types of everyday and specialized reasoning depend on diagrams: we use maps to find our way, we draw graphs and sketches to communicate concepts and prove geometrical theorems, and we manipulate diagrams to explore new creative solutions to problems. The active involvement and manipulation of representational artifacts for purposes of thinking and communicating is discussed in relation to C.S. Peirce’s notion of diagrammatical reasoning. We propose to extend Peirce’s original ideas and sket…Read more
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4L'essor de la diagrammatologieCahiers Philosophiques 163 (4): 93-104. 2021.En 2007, le philosophe danois Frederik Stjernfelt a donné une nouvelle vigueur aux études sur les diagrammes en publiant son opus majeur Diagrammatology. Ce terme a acquis l’extension d’une sous-discipline à part entière à l’intérieur des études sémiotiques. La diagrammatologie fédère aujourd’hui des recherches venues des sciences cognitives aussi bien que du post-structuralisme, des mathématiques et des études littéraires. Frederik Stjernfelt explique comment la diagrammatologie résulte pour lu…Read more
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24Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in PeirceDe Gruyter. 2022.This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the realism of his semiotics: the issue of how sign systems are developed and used in the investigation of reality. Thus, it deals with the precise character of Peirce's realism; with Peirce's special notion of propositions as signs which, at the same time, denote and describe the same object. It deals with diagrams as signs which depict more or less abstract states-of-affairs, facilitating rea…Read more
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9One Hundred Years of Phenomenology: Husserl’s Logical Investigations Revisited (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2002.This volume commemorates the centenary of Logical Investigations by subjecting the work to a comprehensive critical analysis. It contains new contributions by leading scholars addressing some of the most central analyses to be found in the book.
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11Peirce's Theories of AssertionTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 57 (2): 248-269. 2021.ARRAY
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15Logic of the Future: Writings on Existential Graphs. Volume 1: History and Applications ed. by Ahti PietarinenTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 57 (1): 114-127. 2021.To Peirce scholars and other aficionados of logic, semiotics, and pragmatism, 2017 brought the great news of Bellucci’s Speculative Grammar book, providing the eye-opening first detailed chronological overview over Peirce’s career-length developing of his semiotics. Now, the first volume of Ahti Pietarinen’s long-awaited three-volume publication of the totality of Peirce’s writings on his mature logic representation system known as Existential Graphs not only gives us a plethora of hitherto unpu…Read more
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7Peirce and Cassirer – the Kroisian connectionIn Marion Lauschke (ed.), Bodies in action and symbolic forms: Zwei seiten der verkörperungstheorie, Akademie Verlag. pp. 37-46. 2012.
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20Your Post has Been Removed: Tech Giants and Freedom of SpeechSpringer Verlag. 2019.This open access monograph argues established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet. Moderating policies of tech companies as Facebook, Twitter and Google have resulted in posts being removed on an industrial scale. While this moderation is often encouraged by governments - on the pretext that terrorism, bullying, pornography, “hate speech” and “fake news” will slowly disappear from the internet - it enables tech companies to censure our society. It is …Read more
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22The Identity of Sweet Molly Malone: Dicent Indexical Legisigns—a New Element in the Periodic Table of Semiotics?Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (2): 175-184. 2019.The seventh sign in Charles Peirce’s well-known 10-sign taxonomy of the 1903 Syllabus has received relatively little attention compared to many other types of sign that he described. It is the sign type of “Dicent Indexical Legisigns”, a result of the combinatory strategy of the 3x3 elementary sign aspects defined by the three basic sign trichotomies of Qualisign-Sinsign-Legisign, Icon-Index-Symbol and Rheme-Dicisign-Argument, a new strategy developed by Peirce in that famous text. It is well kn…Read more
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Mutual Insights on Peirce and HusserlIn Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen & Mohammad Shafiei (eds.), Peirce and Husserl: Mutual Insights on Logic, Mathematics and Cognition, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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10A Peirce for the 21st century (review)Sign Systems Studies 46 (4): 590-616. 2018.Review of Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics by Francesco Bellucci. New York, London: Routledge, 2017, 388 pages.
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27Introduction: Peirce’s extended theory and classifications of signsSemiotica 2019 (228): 1-2. 2019.Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print
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29Dimensions of Peircean diagrammaticalitySemiotica 2019 (228): 301-331. 2019.Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print
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50The Great Chain of Semiosis. Investigating the Steps in the Evolution of Semiotic CompetenceBiosemiotics 9 (1): 7-29. 2016.Based on the conception of life and semiosis as co-extensive an attempt is given to classify cognitive and communicative potentials of species according to the plasticity and articulatory sophistication they exhibit. A clear distinction is drawn between semiosis and perception, where perception is seen as a high-level activity, an integrated product of a multitude of semiotic interactions inside or between bodies. Previous attempts at finding progressive trends in evolution that might justify a …Read more
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8Dicisigns and Habits: Implicit Propositions and Habit-Taking in Peirce’s PragmatismIn Myrdene Anderson & Donna West (eds.), Consensus on Peirce’s Concept of Habit: Before and Beyond Consciousness, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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11Thermodynamic metaphors: A discussion of basic ideas in cognitive semantics exemplified in a hot topicSemiotica 2003 (146): 267-285. 2003.
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1419Firefly Femmes Fatales: A Case Study in the Semiotics of DeceptionBiosemiotics 3 (1): 33-55. 2010.Mimicry and deception are two important issues in studies about animal communication. The reliability of animal signs and the problem of the benefits of deceiving in sign exchanges are interesting topics in the evolution of communication. In this paper, we intend to contribute to an understanding of deception by studying the case of aggressive signal mimicry in fireflies, investigated by James Lloyd. Firefly femmes fatales are specialized in mimicking the mating signals of other species of firef…Read more
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36Simple animals and complex biology: Von Uexküll’s two-fold influence on Cassirer’s philosophySynthese 179 (1): 169-186. 2011.It is a well-known fact that Ernst Cassirer was inspired by his colleague, the biologist Jakob von Uexkiill at the university of Hamburg. This paper claims this inspiration was double—affecting both Cassirer's philosophical anthropology and Cassirer's epistemology of biology, but in two rather different ways. Thus, the paper intends to shed light on a corner of the history of the development of German thought of the interwar period. It may also have an actual interest because both Cassirer and U…Read more
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53Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art: What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them? (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2015.This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences. The examination of the properties of aesthetic experi…Read more
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23Locale, Street, Square—a Naive Theory of the CityKnowledge, Technology & Policy 21 (3): 105-113. 2008.
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134Theses on Biosemiotics: Prolegomena to a Theoretical BiologyBiological Theory 4 (2): 167-173. 2009.Theses on the semiotic study of life as presented here provide a collectively formulated set of statements on what biology needs to be focused on in order to describe life as a process based on semiosis, or sign action. An aim of the biosemiotic approach is to explain how life evolves through all varieties of forms of communication and signification (including cellular adaptive behavior, animal communication, and human intellect) and to provide tools for grounding sign theories. We introduce the…Read more
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36The generality of signs: The actual relevance of anti-psychologismSemiotica 2013 (194): 77-109. 2013.
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