Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-079358-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 429 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 808 g

Reihe: ISSN

This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the 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 reasoning about them; with assertions as public claims about the truth of propositions. It deals with iconicity in logic, the issue of self-control in reasoning, dependences between phenomena in their realist descriptions.

A number of chapters deal with applied semiotics: with biosemiotic sign use among pre-human organisms: the multimedia combination of pictorial and linguistic information in human semiotic genres like cartoons, posters, poetry, monuments.

All in all, the book makes a strong case for the actual relevance of Peirce's realist semiotics.

Zielgruppe

Philosophers, Peirce scholars, semioticians, media and communicat

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stjernfelt, Frederik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Über Autor(innen)

Frederik Stjernfelt, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark.