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3On bifurcating semiosis: or, How to stop worrying about those elusive signs and learn to live with themSemiotica 99 (1-2): 101-126. 1994.
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4Entangling Forms: Within Semiosic ProcessesDe Gruyter Mouton. 2010.The volume draws from Charles S. Peirce's pragmatic philosophy, contemporary arts and sciences, and Buddhist philosophy in developing the concepts of interconnectedness, self-organization, and co-participation of the knowing subject with respect to contradictory, complementary coalescence. Contradictions can be complementarily, although vaguely and ambiguously, resolved by mediation through coalescent processes, which place Peirce's notion of semiosis in a contemporary, interdisciplinary context…Read more
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14The Trickster Who Mistook Him/Herself for a MaskAmerican Journal of Semiotics 14 (1-4): 144-156. 1998.
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8Signs so Constructed that they Can Know ThemselvesAmerican Journal of Semiotics 20 (1-4): 255-269. 2004.Peirce’s occasional allusion to what he calls ‘nothingness’ motivates this dialogue. The dialogue consists of two interlocutors deliberating over the notion, implicit in recent mathematics, science, logic, and philosophy, and patterned in literature and the arts, of life, and the physical universe as a whole, as a process of self-reflexive, interdependent, interrelated, interactive self-organization, from ‘nothingness’ to what is construed as what is.
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52Semiosic Undertows: The Mexican Scene as Signs of Our TimeAmerican Journal of Semiotics 17 (2): 31-70. 2001.
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41Семиозис и прагматизм (review)Sign Systems Studies 34 (1): 64-64. 2006.Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S. Peirce’s pragmatic philosophy, may hold a key to perennial problems regarding meaning. Indeed, Peirce’s thought should be deemed seminal when placed within the cognitive sciences, especially with respect to his concept of the sign. According to Peirce’s pragmatic model, semiosis is a triadic, time-bou…Read more
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14Семиозис и прагматизм (review)Sign Systems Studies 34 (1): 64-64. 2006.Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S. Peirce’s pragmatic philosophy, may hold a key to perennial problems regarding meaning. Indeed, Peirce’s thought should be deemed seminal when placed within the cognitive sciences, especially with respect to his concept of the sign. According to Peirce’s pragmatic model, semiosis is a triadic, time-bou…Read more
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9A semiotic analysis of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systemsSemiotica 107 (3-4): 209-236. 1995.
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115On Peirce’s Pragmatic Notion of Semiosis—A Contribution for the Design of Meaning MachinesMinds and Machines 19 (1): 129-143. 2009.How to model meaning processes (semiosis) in artificial semiotic systems? Once all computer simulation becomes tantamount to theoretical simulation, involving epistemological metaphors of world versions, the selection and choice of models will dramatically compromise the nature of all work involving simulation. According to the pragmatic Peircean based approach, semiosis is an interpreter-dependent process that cannot be dissociated from the notion of a situated (and actively distributed) commun…Read more
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703Semiosis and pragmatism: toward a dynamic concept of meaningSign Systems Studies 34 (1): 37-66. 2006.Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S. Peirce's pragmatic philosophy, may hold a key to perennial problems regarding meaning. Indeed, Peirce's thought should be deemed seminal when placed within the cognitive sciences, especially with respect to his concept of the sign. According to Peirce's pragmatic model, semiosis is a triadic, time-bou…Read more
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32Семиозис и прагматизм (review)Sign Systems Studies 34 (1): 64-64. 2006.Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S. Peirce’s pragmatic philosophy, may hold a key to perennial problems regarding meaning. Indeed, Peirce’s thought should be deemed seminal when placed within the cognitive sciences, especially with respect to his concept of the sign. According to Peirce’s pragmatic model, semiosis is a triadic, time-bou…Read more
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28. What Else Is a Self-Respecting Sign to Do?In Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 170-187. 1997.
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1Tasking TextualityPeter Lang Publishing. 2000.This study begins with a meditation on Michel Foucault's small book on Rene Magritte's painting, Ceci n'est pas une pipe (1926). It then proceeds to a critique of the notion of textuality and the twentieth century obsession with language.
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3The 2005 Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow Address:" Chewing Gum, Ambulating, and Signing, all at the Same Time: Or, The Magical Number Three"American Journal of Semiotics 22 (1-4): 3-26. 2006.The nature of the Peircean sign is considered in light of a nonlinear, complemented, context dependent lattice, with particular focus on how the lattice: (1) reveals the function of distinctions between signs, (2) supports Peirce’s triadic notion of semiosis, (3) models the notion of signs incessantly becoming other signs, (4) takes its leave of classical logical principles, and (5) accounts for the emergenceof novelty — spontaneous, fresh, unique signs.
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15. The Sign: Mirror or Lamp?In Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 118-130. 1997.
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5Shouldn't We be Surprised that We are Not Surprised when We Should be Surprised?Semiotica 2005 (153 - 1/4): 85-100. 2005.
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52. The Self as a Sign among SignsIn Peirce, Signs, and Meaning, University of Toronto Press. pp. 52-68. 1997.
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2Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the New PhysicsPurdue University Press. 1991.This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by revealing how early twentieth-century and contemporary mathematics and physics also participated in a similar exploration. Topics treated include the semiotic flows of parado…Read more
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The heyday of master narratives-reflections on fly bottles and fallibilismSemiotica 72 (1-2): 125-157. 1988.