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Peirce developed a concept of mind that was designed to connect ideas, diagrams and pictures in mental processes generating propositions, meaning and interpretations. But he switched from the option that mind in general and cognition in particular is best understood by a semiotics of thought-signs to an explanation by some particular logical sign system, e.g. the existential graphs. Of course, this is neither a contradiction nor an exclusive alternative. For, much depends on what aspect of mental processes he wanted to understand, whether he described logical relations or the material qualities of individual signs. However, one of the point of Peirce’s semiotics of mental processes is that both aspects, process relations and material qualities, have to be embodied semiotically. In a number of ways, not only by inventing the type / token distinction Peirce makes embodiment both of material quality and of relations between signs the core of his semiotics and his approach to mind. This is important for other parts of his philosophy. E.g., within in a semiotical account of the mind, pragmatism describes a method how to construct a specific relation of embodiment in terms of practical consequences. The aim of the conference is to relate embodiment, semiotics and graphical logic to each other in such way that they help to throw new light on Peirce’s philosophy of mental processes.
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IN: Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words -- 100 Years of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition
Iconicity in Peircean Situated Cognitive Semiotics2014 •
Sign Systems Studies
C. S. Peirce on the dynamic object of a sign: From ontology to semiotics and backPeirce’s system of sixty-six classes as represented in the Signtree visual model is considered in order to show the strong relation between experience and cognition in semiotics. In this Signtree model we find twenty-four different classes of sinsign, in which we can observe signs of experience, and thirty-six classes of legisign, in which we find general types or laws. Sinsigns and legisigns are predominant in the system of 66 classes and they are closely related. Ordinary experiences are used to illustrate the relations and dependencies among these classes and show how a set of experiences may lead to a certain set of cognitions. They also point out one way to use the Signtree to conduct a semiotic analysis.
The paper deals with the problem of Peirce’s theory of signs, placing it within the context of modern semiotics (comparing it with Saussurean semiology, in particular), and considers Peirce’s semiotics from the point of view of his theory of categories (phaneroscopy) and in the terms of his classification of signs. The article emphasizes the complicated system of Peirce’s late, “mature”, semeiotic and his theory (classification) of Interpretant.
IN: Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics 8
Icon and Abduction: Situatedness in Peircean Cognitive Semiotics2014 •
Differently from the anti-cartesianism defended by some embodied-situated cognitive scientists, which is predominantly anti-representationalist, for C. S. Peirce, mind is semiosis (sign-action) in a dialogical form, and cognition is the development of available semiotic material artifacts in which it is embodied as a power to produce interpretants (sign-effects). It takes the form of development of semiotic artifacts, such as writing tools, instruments of observation, notational systems, languages, and so forth. Our objective in this paper is to explore the connection between a semiotic theory of mind and the conception of situatedness and extended mind through the notions of iconicity and abductive inference, taking advantage of an empirical example of investigation in distributed problem solving (Tower of Hanoi).
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In this paper, I discuss the role of diagrammatic thinking within the larger context of cognitive activity as framed by Peirce's semiotic theory of and its underpinning realistic ontology. After a short overview of Kant's scepticism in its historical context, I examine Peirce's attempt to rescue perception as a way to reconceptualize the Kantian " manifold of senses ". I argue that Peirce's redemption of perception led him to a series of problems that are as fundamental as those that Kant encountered. I contend that the understanding of the difficulties of Peirce's epistemol-ogy allows us to better grasp the limits and possibilities of diagrammatic thinking. En este artículo se discute el papel que desempeña el concepto de pen-samiento diagramático en el contexto de la actividad cognitiva, tal y como es concebida dentro del marco de la teoría semiótica de Peirce y su subyacente ontología realista. Luego de presentar una visión general del escepticismo kantiano en su contexto histórico, se examina el esfuer-zo de Peirce por rescatar la percepción, esfuerzo que lo lleva a indagar de manera innovadora el " multiespacio de los sentidos " del que habla-ba Kant. Se mantiene que este esfuerzo lleva a Peirce a una serie de problemas que son tan fundamentales como los que Kant encontró en su propio itinerario epistemológico. Se sostiene que la comprensión de las dificultades intrínsecas a la epistemología de Peirce nos permite cernir mejor los límites y posibilidades de su pensamiento diagramático.
Filozofia i Nauka
From Signals to Knowledge and from Knowledge to Action: Peircean Semiotics and the Grounding of Cognition2022 •
Cognition is meant as the process of acquiring knowledge from the world. This process is supposed to happen within agents, which build such knowledge with the purpose to use it to determine their actions on the world. Following Peircean ideas, we postulate that such knowledge is encoded by means of signs. According to Peirce, signs are anything that can be used to represent anything else. Also, for Peirce, to represent means to be able to generate another sign, called the interpretant of the original sign, which still holds the same power of interpretability, I.e, its power to be transformed into a new sign, holding this same power. This happens through a process called semiosis, the process by which a sign is transformed into an interpretant. This whole process is performed with the aim of subsidizing the agent in deciding its behavior. So, even though the semiosis process has the power to continue infinitely, it usually stops whenever the generated interpretant brings enough infor...
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