Signs of Logic: Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and Communication

✍ Scribed by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 517
• Series: Synthese Library
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was one of the United States’ most original and profound thinkers, and a prolific writer. Peirce’s game theory-based approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of signs and language, to the theory of communication, and to the evolutionary emergence of signs, provide a toolkit for contemporary scholars and philosophers. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts, the book offers a rich, fresh picture of the achievements of a remarkable man.

✦ Table of Contents

1402037287......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Bibliographical abbreviations......Page 13
Part I: Peirce......Page 15
1. Kant's influence and the logical roots of pragmatism......Page 16
2. On this uninteresting planet: a biographical sketch......Page 24
3. Signs, logic and semeiotics......Page 27
1. Peirce, communication and formal pragmatics......Page 62
2. Common ground and natural language......Page 70
3. Conclusions......Page 81
Appendix: The early dawn of neuroscience......Page 84
1. Introduction......Page 90
2. The emergence of the notion of strategy......Page 94
3. The economics of research and evolutionary metaphysics......Page 101
4. Graphs, semeiotics and language......Page 105
5. Conclusions......Page 112
1. Introduction......Page 116
2. Existential graphs in a historical context......Page 121
3. The magic lantern lit up......Page 124
4. Existential graphs on the move......Page 141
1. Information flow in existential graphs......Page 155
2. Extending existential graphs......Page 159
3. The game interpretation fine-tuned......Page 165
4. Topology, graphs and games......Page 171
5. On diagrammatic representations......Page 178
6. Conclusions......Page 184
Appendix: Some diagrammatic representations......Page 191
1. Introduction......Page 193
2. The emergence of existence in quantificational logic......Page 194
3. The rise of constructivism......Page 198
4. Two and three in tension?......Page 203
5. The endoporeutic method......Page 208
6. Modality and quantification......Page 214
7. Conclusions......Page 217
Appendix: The entry on Modality in MS 1147......Page 219
Part II: Games......Page 229
1. Introduction......Page 230
2. Game-theoretic semantics......Page 237
3. Logic and imperfect information......Page 243
4. Directions in game-theoretic semantics......Page 248
5. Semantic games and natural language......Page 264
6. Conclusions......Page 266
1. Introduction......Page 270
2. Wittgenstein, language games and logic......Page 271
3. Wittgenstein and Peirce......Page 277
4. Language games in computation......Page 280
5. On "one of the most fundamental language-games"......Page 286
6. Wittgenstein and Peirce revisited......Page 293
7. Logical semantics from a game-theoretic perspective......Page 295
1. Lead-in......Page 300
2. Whither dialogue foundations?......Page 305
3. Informal logic from a pragmatist perspective......Page 308
4. Conclusions......Page 311
Appendix: A dialogue......Page 312
1. Introduction......Page 328
2. Game diversity in science and formal studies......Page 330
3. Game theories as explanations......Page 344
4. Conclusions......Page 352
Part III: Language and Communication......Page 358
1. Introduction......Page 359
2. Semantic games and linguistic meaning......Page 363
3. Evolutionary language-games......Page 364
4. Truth, meaning and composition......Page 368
5. Common knowledge in the evolution of semantics......Page 374
6. Comparison and outlook......Page 376
12. COMMON GROUND, RELEVANCE AND OTHER NOTIONS OF PRAGMATICS: FROM PEIRCE TO GRICE AND BEYOND......Page 381
1. Introduction......Page 382
2. Peirce's pragmatism vs. pragmatics......Page 386
3. Economic, evolution and language change: Some predecessors, contemporaries and followers......Page 390
4. Grice in the wake of Peirce......Page 402
5. Post-Gricean pragmatics: towards relevance......Page 409
6. On historical and Peircean pragmatics......Page 414
7. Agenda cognitive linguistics......Page 420
8. Conclusions......Page 425
1. Introduction......Page 430
2. Triangulate them all......Page 432
3. Applications and complications......Page 438
4. Pragmatism from a communicational perspective......Page 441
5. Towards open-systems philosophy......Page 443
6. Conclusions......Page 445
Appendix: Manuscript 614 on Common Ground......Page 447
1. A semeiotic perspective......Page 450
2. On the foundations of agent methodology......Page 454
3. Games, agents and information......Page 459
4. Conclusions......Page 466
15. FINAL WORDS......Page 469
Bibliography......Page 472
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