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In its last issue, TECCOGS presented a dialogue on issues of Cognitive Semiotics, which Professor Vincent Colapietro, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI, USA), contributed to this journal in dialogue with Winfried Nöth. Under the... more
In its last issue, TECCOGS presented a dialogue on issues of Cognitive Semiotics, which Professor Vincent Colapietro, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI, USA), contributed to this journal in dialogue with Winfried Nöth. Under the title “Cognitive Semiotics – Minds, and Machines”, he outlined the foundations of Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy of mind and its relevance to the study of human and artificial intelligence. TECCOGSs now brings a new dialogue with Colapietro as the first of a series of three “Reflections”, first presented in dialogue with Winfried Nöth on tidd’s YouTube channel under Lucia Santaella’s curatorship. “What is the semiotic self?”, “How can we change habits”, and “Why sentiments can be logical” are the titles of the three Reflections. In this series, Colapietro adds new chapters to extend his introduction to cognitive semiotics. Among the topics of these Reflections are the self as a cognitive agent, the philosophy of intelligence, and the role of emot...
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A materialidade, ou o que alguns teóricos preferem identificar como materiais, vem sendo cada vez mais assunto de discussão e investigação. Embora esses autores sejam muito cuidadosos em especificar o que querem dizer com tais termos, o... more
A materialidade, ou o que alguns teóricos preferem identificar como materiais, vem sendo cada vez mais assunto de discussão e investigação. Embora esses autores sejam muito cuidadosos em especificar o que querem dizer com tais termos, o assunto exige maior esclarecimento do que recebera até agora. Isso faz com que seja um candidato ideal para o tríplice-escalonado esclarecimento proposto por C. S. Peirce em “Como tornar nossas ideias claras” e que daí em diante foi utilizado por ele para, diante do propósito em questão, tornar adequadamente claras suas próprias ideias. Assim como considerava inatingível a certeza absoluta, ele julgava também a clareza absoluta estar fora de alcance. Mesmo assim, ele ofereceu sua máxima pragmática como o nível mais alto de esclarecimento conceitual. Para inúmeros fins, aderir a essa máxima nos permite esclarecer nossas ideias de forma adequada. Embora ele seja enfático em sublinhar as limitações de definições abstratas (o segundo ou nível intermediár...
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This article elaborates a deceptively simple suggestion made by Hegel (philosophy is the activity of thinking things over). It relates Hegel's suggestion above all to Dewey's stress on looking back, looking around, and looking... more
This article elaborates a deceptively simple suggestion made by Hegel (philosophy is the activity of thinking things over). It relates Hegel's suggestion above all to Dewey's stress on looking back, looking around, and looking ahead. In this endeavor the article touches upon two seemingly contradictory facets of philosophical thought—the autonomy and heteronomy of such thought (on the one hand, the apparent capacity of philosophy not only to transcend its time and place but also to unfold according to its own immanent logic and, on the other hand, the manifest entanglement of philosophy with historical circumstances) (West 1989, 7–8). To a greater extent, however, the article focuses on the dramatic character of philosophical efforts to think things over, once again. The drive to think things over is frequently rooted in historical crises, in experiential conflicts. The actuality of philosophy cannot be adequately understood apart from such dramas and conflicts, ones taking ...
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Investigadores científicos no sentido moderno, aqueles pensadores com os quais C.S. Peirce identificava-se mais profundamente, “têm sido bem-sucedidos pois eles passaram suas vidas não em suas bibliotecas ou museus, mas em seus... more
Investigadores científicos no sentido moderno, aqueles pensadores com os quais C.S. Peirce identificava-se mais profundamente, “têm sido bem-sucedidos pois eles passaram suas vidas não em suas bibliotecas ou museus, mas em seus laboratórios e no campo” (CP 1.34). De fato, Peirce gastou incontáveis horas envolvido em uma atividade na qual ele parece menosprezar nesta e em outras passagens. Aliás, ele parece ter interpretado incorretamente sua vida como leitor. O autor oferece um retrato de Peirce como leitor, mesmo quando de maior importância ele se vale de Georges Poulet para delinear uma fenomenologia de leitura e sobre Elaine Scarry para oferecer um relato de leitura como uma forma de devaneio. Além, disso, ele mostra como o pensamento de Peirce garante ambos esforços, acompanhando de perto a consideração peirciana sinequista da mente, consciência e subjetividade, mas também, a consideração às categorias semióticas de diagrama, símbolo e para ícones de graus menores.Investigadores...
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From a pragmatist perspective, the inaugural concern of Peirce’s formal theory (mediation? representation? translation?) cannot be separated from the eventual form in which this theory ought to be cast. Moreover, it cannot be severed from... more
From a pragmatist perspective, the inaugural concern of Peirce’s formal theory (mediation? representation? translation?) cannot be separated from the eventual form in which this theory ought to be cast. Moreover, it cannot be severed from the emerging goals of an evolving process of theoretical elaboration. Peirce’s semeiotic culminates in methodeutic. The form in which the theory of signs is most appropriately cast is arguably a reflexive, normative inquiry into the conditions and forms of inquiry. It is, however, possibly something wider – a rhetoric inclusive of more than the discourses and disciplines of the experimental sciences (i.e., a rhetoric inclusive of artistic works no less than practical communication). An account of the most rudimentary and pervasive form of semiosis (grammar in Peirce’s sense being one of the names for this account) must ultimately give way to a nuanced understanding of historical practices such as experimental inquiry, artistic innovation, practical...
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L'A. cherche a eclairer certains aspects de l'une des principales preoccupations philosophiques de C.S. Peirce : l'articulation de la doctrine des categories. L'A. defend cette doctrine, generalement mal comprise et... more
L'A. cherche a eclairer certains aspects de l'une des principales preoccupations philosophiques de C.S. Peirce : l'articulation de la doctrine des categories. L'A. defend cette doctrine, generalement mal comprise et sous-estimee, par une argumentation en quatre etapes : 1. en mettant l'accent sur l'articulation entre les categories de Peirce et la semiotique et 2. en retracant le mouvement recursif de l'analyse categorielle, ce qui amene l'A. a definir la nature intrinseque des categories, 3. en attirant l'attention sur le caractere evanescent, spontane, ineffable du systeme categoriel de Peirce et, enfin, 4. en eclairant la maniere dont Peirce a designe cette structure categorielle afin qu'elle determine un cadre heuristique
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The author contextualizes C. S. Peirce’s exploration of rhetoric and methodeutic in reference to the inevitably incomplete work of a radical experimentalist such as Peirce. He tries to show how even in the inaugural stage of semeiotic... more
The author contextualizes C. S. Peirce’s exploration of rhetoric and methodeutic in reference to the inevitably incomplete work of a radical experimentalist such as Peirce. He tries to show how even in the inaugural stage of semeiotic inquiry “rhetorical” considerations are not entirely absent. Moreover, he attends to some of the most important moments when Peirce re-visited the topic of rhetoric. Finally, he muses about both how Peirce re-imagined rhetoric as methodeutic and how we might ourselves re-imagine yet other possibilities. The essay is written as an invitation to join Peirce’s efforts as co-inquirers, providing near its conclusion a series of “notes” or suggestions for how to carry Peirce’s project forward.
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O principal tema deste artigo e uma abordagem pragmatista para as praticas humanas. Outro e o modo como praticas especificas fornecem recursos inestimaveis para estruturar tal abordagem e, ainda, outro e o modo como as praticas musicais... more
O principal tema deste artigo e uma abordagem pragmatista para as praticas humanas. Outro e o modo como praticas especificas fornecem recursos inestimaveis para estruturar tal abordagem e, ainda, outro e o modo como as praticas musicais sao especialmente luminosas a esse respeito. A enfase de tal abordagem as praticas incidem decisivamente na performance, em vez de uma partitura, roteiro ou interpretacao. Em outras palavras, as praticas humanas sao, a partir da perspectiva pragmatista, contextos variaveis nas quais as performances improvisadas ou extemporâneas sao a regra em vez da excecao. Alem disso, elas sao recursos incalculaveis sobre as quais atores de improviso podem elaborar, inclusive o recurso de performances exemplares ou paradigmaticas. Entretanto, em uma das tradicoes dominantes da musica ocidental, o Werktreuer pareceria oferecer um obstaculo para tal abordagem pragmatista as praticas musicais. Parte do argumento aqui e seguir a conduta de teoricos como Richard Taruski...
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W.N.: Good afternoon, we are here to speak about a very difficult topic: how to change habits. Peter Sloderdijk launched a book, translated into English as “You must change your life”. We were more respectful and put it in the form of a... more
W.N.: Good afternoon, we are here to speak about a very difficult topic: how to change habits. Peter Sloderdijk launched a book, translated into English as “You must change your life”. We were more respectful and put it in the form of a question: How do we change habits? But the presupposition of this question is the same, you cannot ask how you change a habit if you are not convinced that you must change habits, and life is habits, is it not? Well, of course, the background of our dialogue is Peirce’s conception of life and habits, but perhaps not only. We are here to meet and to speak in a series of online reflections. This is the third. A week from now we have a fourth. Without further ado, Professor Vincent Colapietro, whom you must know by now, is ready to speak about this topic, and we thank him very much for being with us once more.
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After disambiguating the word, the author explores the blues primarily not as a genre of music but as a sensibility or orientation toward the world. In doing so, he is taking seriously suggestions made by a host of writers, most notably,... more
After disambiguating the word, the author explores the blues primarily not as a genre of music but as a sensibility or orientation toward the world. In doing so, he is taking seriously suggestions made by a host of writers, most notably, Ralph Waldo Ellison, Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, and Cornel West. As such, the focus is on the blues as an extended family of somatic practices bearing upon expression (or articulation). At the center of these practices, there is in the blues (to modify Foucault’s words) always the patient yet exuberant work of giving articulate form to our impatience for human freedom. But here the distinction between practices of emancipation, by which a people throws off their political domination, and practices of freedom, by which they tirelessly work to make their freed self truly their own, is crucial. In this, the author is guided by an insight provided by Toni Morrison’s Beloved: “Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was an...
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No âmago deste artigo há uma comparação entre a investigação sobre o entendimento de Peirce o relato de interpretação de Royce. Estrutura-se por uma consideração do desentendimento de si (uma consideração desenvolvida em referência a... more
No âmago deste artigo há uma comparação entre a investigação sobre o entendimento de Peirce o relato de interpretação de Royce. Estrutura-se por uma consideração do desentendimento de si (uma consideração desenvolvida em referência a Peirce) e, ligada a esta discussão do desentendimento de si, uma consideração sobre o próprio entendimento. Para Peirce, em razão de sua abordagem da investigação e Royce em sua meta-interpretação (i.e., sua interpretação do significado e da função da própria interpretação) alguma forma de entendimento está em jogo. Por exemplo, a tarefa do investigador científico é inacabada se ela para na descoberta de fatos nus (simplesmente que algo é verdadeiramente o caso – um corpo tal como uma pedra pequena sustentada no alto por uma pessoa cairá no solo se a pessoa soltá-la). Enquanto para ambos os pensadores, as ciências não um corpo de conhecimento seguro, mas uma forma de investigação contínua, ela visa principalmente o entendimento. Tanto Peirce quanto Royc...
... Polanyi indeed invites comparison with any number of theorists, philosophical and otherwise (Terrence Deacon no less than Paul Grice or Ruth Milikan, Bahktin no less than Todorov or Kristeva), but some of these comparisons of course... more
... Polanyi indeed invites comparison with any number of theorists, philosophical and otherwise (Terrence Deacon no less than Paul Grice or Ruth Milikan, Bahktin no less than Todorov or Kristeva), but some of these comparisons of course promise to be more fruitful and ...
Pragmatist accounts of experimental intelligence are, at once, a continuation of the historical debate about the nature, scope, and function of reason and a significant departure from this dispute. They also reveal the efforts of... more
Pragmatist accounts of experimental intelligence are, at once, a continuation of the historical debate about the nature, scope, and function of reason and a significant departure from this dispute. They also reveal the efforts of philosophers to come to terms with the Darwinian revolution in the life sciences. Arguably, American pragmatism was the first self-consciously Darwinian movement in Western philosophy. The reconceptions of reason or intelligence formulated by Peirce, James, Dewey, and other pragmatists were central to their reconstruction of philosophy. In conjunction with this, Peirce and Dewey redefined logic as a theory of inquiry. But virtually all of the pragmatists linked intelligence to action. They envisioned human ingenuity to be without inherent limits but its historical forms often to be pathological distortions. They were sensitive to the tragic failures of experimental intelligence to make a difference, to inform and guide action in a liberating and illuminatin...
This essay explores important intersections between the thought of John Dewey and Michel Foucault, with special attention to the distinction between emancipation versus “practices of freedom.” The complex relationship between these... more
This essay explores important intersections between the thought of John Dewey and Michel Foucault, with special attention to the distinction between emancipation versus “practices of freedom.” The complex relationship between these thinkers is, at once, complementary, divergent, and overlapping. The author however stresses the way in which both Dewey and Foucault portray situated subjects as improvisational actors implicated in unique situations, the meaning of which turns on the extemporaneous exertions of these implicated agents.
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This article presents a review of Deely’s 2002 book,
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In his book, Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs, Marc Champagne argues that current philosophical puzzlement about the qualitative dimension of consciousness stems, historically and logically, from a failure to properly handle the... more
In his book, Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs, Marc Champagne argues that current philosophical puzzlement about the qualitative dimension of consciousness stems, historically and logically, from a failure to properly handle the fine-grained distinctions found in the semiotic theory of the American polymath, Charles Sanders Peirce. The aim of this symposium is to reflect on what that might mean for the other body of ideas Peirce is known for, pragmatism.