03/04/2016
Hi everyone,
The e-copy of Language and Semiotic Studies has been formally launched and from now, we'll publish selected of the papers for free access.
If you are interested in these papers, you can also download them on the website of www.szlass.com.cn
The very first paper that we recommend is "What Semiotics Is" by John Deely.
What Semiotics Is
John Deely
University of St. Thomas, USA
Abstract
Charles Peirce compares the action of signs to what our experience of blue would have been had we been born wearing blue-tinted glasses: it is an influence on our experience that runs so deep we do not even become aware of its influence until some circumstance or other forces us to realize its action in shaping our identity and lives. For human animals, it was our becoming aware of the difference between the world as it appears to be in everyday experience and the world as it appears through telescopes and microscopes that, “slow-by-slow”, forced intellectuals of modern times to recognize the need for recognizing a point of view that transcended the difference between the critical control of objectification reliant mainly upon “common experience” and the extension of that control to include the “special experiences” made possible by experimentation reliant upon instruments with results mathematically integrated. That realization marked the dawn of the postmodern era of intellectual culture, the era where it comes to be understood that the action of signs (semiosis) provides the framework for the whole of human knowledge, from its animal origins in sensation to its farthest reaches beyond the material world in the contemplation of spiritual dimensions within the physical order of being as independent of awareness by finite mind.
Keywords: early intellectual culture, modern philosophy, modern science, postmodern intellectual culture, semiotics, semiotic challenge
About the author
John Deely ([email protected]) is “Philosopher in Residence” at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, USA, and holder of the Rudman Chair in Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, USA. He is the author of a complete history of philosophy from Thales to the Present, Four Ages of Understanding (2001). Together with Thomas A. Sebeok, he was a founding member of the Semiotic Society of America (SSA), for which he developed the SSA Style Sheet. This style is now used in the SSA Annual Proceedings volumes and The American Journal of Semiotics (TAJS). Deely served two terms as Vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS), and two terms as IASS Vice-Treasurer. His many publications cover contemporary problem-areas in philosophy and the history of philosophy, particularly from the standpoint of the doctrine of signs or “semiotics”. The corrected 2nd edition of his bi-lingual presentation of Poinsot’s 1632 Tractatus de Signis. The Semiotic of John Poinsot was published by St. Augustine’s Press (South Bend, IN; Spring 2013).
Citation information
Deely, J. (2015). What semiotics is. Language and Semiotic Studies, 1(1), 63-94.
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