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Peirce Society.ContentsIntroduction-Peirce Compared: Directions for UsePart I-Semeiotic as PhilosophyPeirce's New Philosophical ParadigmsPeirce's Philosophy of SemeioticPeirce's First Pragmatic Papers (1877-1878)The Postscriptum of 1893Part II-Semeiotic as SemioticsSign: Semiosis and Representamen-Semiosis and TimeSign: The Concept and Its Use-Reading as TranslationPart III-Comparative SemioticsSemiotics and Logic: A Reply to Jerzy PelcSemeiotic and Greek Logic: Peirce and PhilodemusSemeiotic and Significs: Peirce and Lady WelbySemeiotic and Semiology: Peirce and SaussureSemeiotic and Semiotics: Peirce and MorrisSemeiotic and Linguistics: Peirce and JakobsonSemeiotic and Communication: Peirce and McLuhanSemeiotic and Epistemology: Peirce, Frege, and WittgensteinPart IV-Comparative MetaphysicsGnoseology-Perceiving and Knowing: Peirce, Wittgenstein, and GestalttheorieOntology-Transcendentals "ofor "withoutBeing: Peirce versus Aristotle and Thomas AquinasCosmology-Chaos and Chance within Order and Continuity: Peirce between Plato and DarwinTheology-The Reality of God: Peirce's Triune God and the Church's TrinityConclusion-Peirce: A Lateral View
List of contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction ¿ Peirce Compared: Directions for Use
Part I ¿ Semeiotic as Philosophy
Chapter 1. Peirce's New Philosophical Paradigms
Chapter 2. Peirce's Philosophy of Semeiotic
Chapter 3. Peirce's First Pragmatic Papers (1877-1878)
The Postscriptum of 1893
Part II ¿ Semeiotic as Semiotics
Chapter 4. Sign: Semiosis and Representamen¿Semiosis and Time
Chapter 5. Sing: The Concept and Its Use¿Reading as Translation
Part III ¿ Comparative Semiotics
Chapter 6. Semiotics and Logic: A Reply to Jerzy Pelc
Chapter 7. Semeiotic and Greek Logic: Peirce and Philodemus
Chapter 8. Semeiotic and Significs: Peirce and Lady Welby
Chapter 9. Semeiotic and Semiology: Peirce and Saussure
Chapter 10. Semeiotic and Semiotics: Peirce and Morris
Chapter 11. Semeiotic and Linguistics: Peirce and Jakobson
Chapter 12. Semeiotic and Communication: Peirce and McLuhan
Chapter 13. Semeiotic and Epistemology: Peirce, Frege, and Wittgenstein
Chapter IV ¿ Comparative Metaphysics
Chapter 14. Gnoseology ¿ Perceiving and Knowing: Peirce, Wittgenstein, and Gestalttheorie
Chapter 15. Ontology ¿ Transcendentals of or Without Being Peirce Versus Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 16. Cosmology ¿ Chaos and Chance Within Order and Continuity: Peirce Between Plato and Darwin
Chapter 17. Theology ¿ The Reality of God: Peirce's Triune God and the Church's Trinity
Conclusion ¿Peirce: A Lateral View
Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
About the author
Gérard Deledalle (born 1921)holds the Doctorate in Philosophy from the Sorbonne. He is a Research Scholar at Columbia University, New York, and Attaché at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, he was also successively Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department of the universities of Tunis (1963-1972), Perpignan (1974-1990), and Libreville (1977-1981). He was appointed Director of the Instut Franco-Japonais in Tokyo from 1972 to 1974. He has been Visiting Professor in Japan (Waseda University), China (Beijing and Wuhan), the United States (Bloomington) and Canada (UQAM). He has written extensively on American philosophy, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey, pragmatism, and semiotics. He received in 1990 the Herbert W. Schneider Award "for distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of American philosophy." In 2001, he was appointed vice-president of the Charles S. Peirce Society.
Summary
Examines Peirce's philosophy and semiotic thought from a European perspective, comparing the American's unique views with a wide variety of work by thinkers from the ancients to moderns. This work deals with the philosophical paradigms which are at the root of Peirce's new theory of signs, pragmatic and social and more.
