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

✍ Scribed by Torkild Thellefsen (editor); Bent Sorensen (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 632
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]; 14
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ 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
26 A Person is Like a Cluster of Stars
27 Crystal-Clearness: For the Second-Rates
28 On the Nature of Rare Minds & Useless Things
29 The Heart as a Perceptive Organ
30 On the “Realistic Hypostatization of Relations”
31 Peirce’s Role in the History of Logic: Lingua Universalis and Calculus Ratiocinator
32 Pure Zero
33 Peirce on Theory and Practice
34 Peirce and the Discipline of Metaphysics
35 Peirce’s First Rule of Reason and the Process of Learning
36 Bridging Ancient and Contemporary Knowing
37 Peirce’s Process Ontology of Relational Order
38 The Degenerate Monkey
39 On Digital Photo-Index
40 Semiotic Propedeutics for Logic and Cognition
41 The First Correlate
42 Logic, Ethics and the Ethics of Logic
43 Beauty and the Best
44 Iconicity in Peircean situated cognitive Semiotics
45 The Purloined Inkstand
46 A Very Short Version of Diagrammatic Reasoning
47 Against Preposterous Philosophies of Mind
48 Dream and Drama: Peirce’s Copernican Turn
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
78 Peirce on Metaphor
79 Peirce’s System of 66 Classes of Signs
80 Peirce’s Philosophical Theology, Continuity, and Communication with the Deity
81 The Play of Musement
82 On Peirce’s Visualization of the Classifications of Signs: Finding a Common Pattern in Diagrams
83 Truth and Satisfaction: The Gist of Pragmaticism
84 Collateral Experience and Interpretation: Narrative Cognition and Symbolization
85 “Don’t You Think So?”
86 Collateral Experience as a Prerequisite for Signification
87 Comparing Ideas: Comparational Analysis and Peirce’s Phenomenology
88 Developing from Peirce’s Late Semeiotic Realism
References
Index