Peirce, Science, Signs: 9 (Semiotics and the Human Sciences) - Hardcover

Kevelson, Roberta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820430161 ISBN 13: 9780820430164

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1996

Synopsis

This book focuses on how Peirce, himself, employed his own method of science in examining and evolving complex ideas, or sign-systems. Since Peirce regarded the main objective of his Semiotics to bring together in greater comprehensive generality two or more frames of reference or idea-systems, this book looks at how competing universes of discourse in various disciplines such as medicine, law, economics, present that special Indexical structure which Peirce says characterizes actual experience. In this book the author gives prominence to the Practical Sciences.

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Review

-The book in its entirety is a model of the expansion and interaction of widely varied universes of discourse; Kevelson has made her medium her message, and done it provocatively and effectively.- (Mattie Scott, Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis)
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About the Author

The Author: Roberta Kevelson published most extensively on Peirce over the past decades. She regarded his work as holistic, with the theory of signs, Semiotics, as mediating between other more traditional systems of thought. She was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Penn State where she directed the Center for Semiotic Research. Professor Kevelson died in 1998.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820430161
• ISBN 13: 9780820430164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206