Applied Interdisciplinary Peirce Studies

Applied Interdisciplinary
Peirce Studies

Number 10
Volume Editor
Elize Bisanz

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Charles Sanders Peirce, a member of the American Expedition to study the solar eclipse, Catania, Sicily, 23. December 1870.

By permission, Preston Tuttle Collection, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, Texas Tech University.

ISBN 978-3-631-79150-9 (Print)

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E-ISBN 978-3-631-79152-3 (E-Pub)

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DOI 10.3726/b15707

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About the editor

The Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism—the oldest organized research effort focused on the works of Charles S. Peirce and his study of interdisciplinary methods—was founded at Texas Tech University in 1971. The group publishes in and across disciplines ranging from the humanities to the sciences.

About the book

The volume focuses on the application of Peirce’s semeiotic as a methodological tool to establish a common field for interdisciplinary research. Contributors from the fields of biology, architecture, logic, esthetics and neuroscience, among others, work on diverse research problems, unified by the idea of transcending the dyadic limitations of disciplinary restrictions and applying Peirce’s triadic method, and the structure and process of sign relations of the particular problem that has to be solved. The result is an invigorating example of methodological plasticity wherein the reader acquires an understanding of scientific observation within the complex universe of semeiosis relations.

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Table of Contents

Elize Bisanz

Introduction. How Symbols grow. The Foundation of a Scientific Study of Culture

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Peirce

Toward Understanding the “Biology of Mind” Hypothesis

Søren Brier

Peircean Logic as Semiotic Expanded into Biosemiotics as Transdisciplinary Framework

Tiago da Costa e Silva

What Is the Esthetics of Charles S. Peirce For? Inquiry into a Theoretical Framework of Esthetics for a Theory of Discovery

Mary Jeanette Eberhardinger

The Meme is the Message: Self-Care Internet Memes

Linda Freyberg

Iconicity as Simultaneous Plurality. Beyond the Restraints of Formal Knowledge Organization Systems

Anna Kapuścińska

Zum Mehrwert der Semiotik nach Ch.S. Peirce für die heutige Linguistik

Owen Kelly

The Magnificent Impossibility of Virtual Reality

Kenneth Laine Ketner

Peirce’s Root Metaphor within his Experimental Study of Semeiosis

Ľudmila Lacková

Logic of Relatives as Syntax in the Genetic Code

Thomas G. McLaughlin

Peirce’s “Logic of Number,” Firstorderwise←7 | 8→

Stephanie Schneider

Modelling Vision – A Semeiotic Approach to Algorithmic Images

Matthias Warkus

Gebäude als Peircesche Zeichenprozesse←8 | 9→

Elize Bisanz

Introduction

How Symbols grow. The Foundation of a Scientific Study of Culture

“A man denotes whatever is the object of his attention at the moment;

he connotes whatever he knows or feels of this object

and is the incarnation of this form or intelligible species;

his interpretant is the future memory of this cognition,

his future self, or another person he addresses,