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    An Empiricism with High Metaphysical Ambitions: On Short's Charles Peirce and Modern Science
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 59 (4): 388-403. 2024.
    Abstract: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, p…Read more
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    Diagrammatic reasoning: Abstraction, interaction, and insight
    with Kristian Tylén, Riccardo Fusaroli, Johanne Stege Bjørndahl, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, and Svend Østergaard
    Pragmatics 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
  • Æstetisk kommunikation (edited book)
    with Ole Thyssen
    Handelshøjskolens forlag. 2000.
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    L'essor de la diagrammatologie
    Cahiers 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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    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
  •  2
    One Hundred Years of Phenomenology: Husserl’s Logical Investigations Revisited (edited book)
    with D. Zahavi
    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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    Peirce's Theories of Assertion
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 57 (2): 248-269. 2021.
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    Logic of the Future: Writings on Existential Graphs. Volume 1: History and Applications ed. by Ahti Pietarinen
    Transactions 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
  •  19
    Your Post has Been Removed: Tech Giants and Freedom of Speech
    with Anne Mette Lauritzen
    Springer 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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    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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    A 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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    Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print
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    Dimensions of Peircean diagrammaticality
    Semiotica 2019 (228): 301-331. 2019.
    Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print
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    The ontology of espionage in reality and fiction
    Sign Systems Studies 31 (1): 133-161. 2003.
    A basic form of iconicity in literature is the correspondence between basic conceptual schemata in literary semantics on the one hand and in factual treatments on the other. The semantics of a subject like espionage is argued to be dependent on the ontology of the field in question, with reference to the English philosopher Barry Smith’s “fallibilistic apriorism”. This article outlines such an ontology, on the basis of A. J. Greimas’s semiotics and Carl Schmitt’s philosophy of state, claiming th…Read more
  •  6
    Left Behind
    with J. -M. Eriksen
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2014 (169): 39-44. 2014.
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    Multi safe compound constructions: A reply to Anders Søgaard
    with Peer F. Bundgaard and Svend Østergaard
    Semiotica 2008 (172): 313-322. 2008.
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    Mereology and semiotics
    Sign Systems Studies 28 73-97. 2000.
    This paper gives a fIrst overview over the role of mereology the theory of parts and wholes - in semiotics. The mereology of four major semioticians - Husserl, Jakobson, Hjelmslev, and Peirce is presented briefly and its role in the overall architecture of each of their theories is outlined - with Brentano tradition as reference. Finally, an evaluation of the strength and weaknesses of the four is undertaken, and some guidelines for further research is proposed.
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    Dicisigns: Peirce’s semiotic doctrine of propositions
    Synthese 192 (4): 1019-1054. 2015.
    The paper gives a detailed reconstruction and discussion of Peirce’s doctrine of propositions, so-called Dicisigns, developed in the years around 1900. The special features different from the logical mainstream are highlighted: the functional definition not dependent upon conscious stances nor human language, the semiotic characterization extending propositions and quasi-propositions to cover prelinguistic and prehuman occurrences of signs, the relations of Dicisigns to the conception of facts, …Read more
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    The following two review papers have a common origin. Pietarinen’s book Signs of Logic and Stjernfelt’s book Diagrammatology were both published in the same Synthese Library Series being published by Springer. The two books also share the common topic of diagrammatic reasoning in Charles Peirce’s work. Beginning in a conference Applying Peirce held in Helsinki in conjunction with the World Congress of Semiotics in June 2007, two authors have commented upon these books under the headline of Synth…Read more
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    Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis
    Sign Systems Studies 30 (1): 337-345. 2002.
    This paper briefly outlines the main ideas of biosemiotics in 22 hypotheses, with special regards to the version of it claimed by Jesper Hoffmeyer.
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    Scaffolding Development and the Human Condition
    with Paul Cobley
    Biosemiotics 8 (2): 291-304. 2015.
    This paper addresses the concept of semiotic scaffolding by considering it in light of questions arising from the contemporary challenge to the humanities. This challenge comes from a mixture of scientistic demands, opportunism on the part of Western governments in thrall to neo-liberalism, along with crass economic utilitarianism. In this paper we attempt to outline what a theory of semiotic scaffolding may offer to an understanding of the humanities’ contemporary role, as well as what the huma…Read more
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    How Can the Study of the Humanities Inform the Study of Biosemiotics?
    with Donald Favareau, Kalevi Kull, Gerald Ostdiek, Timo Maran, Louise Westling, Paul Cobley, Myrdene Anderson, Morten Tønnessen, and Wendy Wheeler
    Biosemiotics 10 (1): 9-31. 2017.
    This essay – a collection of contributions from 10 scholars working in the field of biosemiotics and the humanities – considers nature in culture. It frames this by asking the question ‘Why does biosemiotics need the humanities?’. Each author writes from the background of their own disciplinary perspective in order to throw light upon their interdisciplinary engagement with biosemiotics. We start with Donald Favareau, whose originary disciplinary home is ethnomethodology and linguistics, and the…Read more