Swampman encounters an Immediate Object
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Frederik Stjernfelt
Frederik Stjernfelt is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, teaching semiotics, intellectual history, and theory of science. He has published, inter alia, the books
Diagrammatology (2007),Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism (with J.M. Eriksen, 2012), andNatural Propositions (2014).
Abstract
This paper is a response to three reviews of the author’s 2014 book Natural Propositions: The Actuality of Peirce’s Doctrine of Dicisigns, by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Helmut Pape, and Göran Sonesson, respectively. Addressed here are issues like the Swampman argument and the character of Peirce’s concept of “Immediate Object”. A conclusion makes a general observation that semiotics is threatened by reductions of signs to sociological conventions on the one hand and mental phenomena on the other – arguing that communities as well as minds presuppose sign structure and use.
About the author
Frederik Stjernfelt is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, teaching semiotics, intellectual history, and theory of science. He has published, inter alia, the books Diagrammatology (2007), Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism (with J.M. Eriksen, 2012), and Natural Propositions (2014).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- The emergence and nature of genres – a social-dynamic account
- Cognition and semiotic processing of luminous stimuli in various orders of the natural world
- The elusory kingdoms of the mind: Glosses on José Luis Caivano’s paper
- Swampman encounters an Immediate Object
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- The emergence and nature of genres – a social-dynamic account
- Cognition and semiotic processing of luminous stimuli in various orders of the natural world
- The elusory kingdoms of the mind: Glosses on José Luis Caivano’s paper
- Swampman encounters an Immediate Object
