Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce

Frederik Stjernfelt

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce

Frederik Stjernfelt

Volume 6 in the series Peirceana

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793628

Overview
Contents

About this book

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 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.

Author / Editor information

Frederik Stjernfelt, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Propositions
Chapter 1 Signs Conveying Information On the Range of Peirce’s Notion of Propositions: Dicisigns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 2 Dicisigns and Habits Implicit Propositions and Habit-Taking in Peirce’s Pragmatism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 3 Peirce’s Theories of Assertion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 4 The Identity of Sweet Molly Malone Dicent Indexical Legisigns—A New Element in the Periodic Table of Semiotics? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter 5 Co-localization as the Syntax of Multimodal Propositions An Amazing Peircean Idea and Some Implications for the Semiotics of Truth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 6 Sheets in the Wild A First Overview over Types of Propositional Surfaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
II Iconicity and Diagrams
Chapter 7 How Do Pictures Act? Two Semiotic Aspects of Picture Activity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 8 Dimensions of Peircean Diagrammaticality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 9 Iconicity of Logic—And the Roots of the “Iconicity” Concept Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Chapter 10 Diagrammatic Problem Solving (with Svend Østergaard) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter 11 Schematic Aspects of an Aesthetics of Diagrams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
III Semiotics and Metaphysics
Chapter 12 Peirce as a Truthmaker Realist Propositional Realism as Backbone of Peircean Metaphysics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 13 Phenomenology and Logic in Peirce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 14 A Peirce for the 21 Century Theoretical Development as Key to Peirce’s Semiotics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter 15 Blocking Evil Infinites A Note on a Note on a Peircean Strategy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Chapter 16 Peirce and Cassirer—The Kroisean Connection Vistas and Open Issues in John Krois’ Philosophical Semiotics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Chapter 17 The Riddle of Dependences How to Connect Entities across Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Structuralism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Chapter 18 Conscious Self-Control as Criterion for Reasoning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Chapter 19 Limited Individuals and Unlimited Aims Peirce’s Philosophical Anthropology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Coda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Earlier Versions of Chapters of This Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Philosophers, Peirce scholars, semioticians, media and communication scholars, libraries, institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 429
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 62
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
Keywords: semiotics; pragmatism; logic; propositions

eBook

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110793628

Hardcover

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110793581