Agent, Person, Subject, Self: A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure

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1. Semiotic Ontologies
1. Signs, Minds, and Meaning-in-the-World
2. Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure
2. Biosemiosis, Technocognition, and Sociogenesis
1. Relations between Relations
2. Significance and Selection
3. Communication between Conspecifics
4. The Organization of Cognitive Processes
5. Framing
6. Artificial and Natural Selection, Sieving and Serendipity
7. Lawn-Mowers and Logic Gates
8. Relations between Relations Revisited
9. Networks of Interconnected Envorganisms
10. The Evolution and Epidemiology of Culture
3. Enclosing and Disclosing Worlds
1. The Neo-Organon
2. Semiotic Processes, Social Theories, and Obviated Ontologies
3. Social Statuses, Material Substances, and Mental States
4. Relatively Emblematic Indices
5. Semiotic Agents and Generalized Others
6. From Performativity to Transformativity
4. Residence in the World
1. From Being-in-the-World to Meaning-in-the-World
2. Heeding Affordances
3. Wielding Instruments
4. Undertaking Actions
5. Inhabiting Roles
6. Fulfilling Identities
7. From Acting Under a Description to Comporting Within an Interpretation
5. Representations of the World
1. Intentionality Reframed
2. Cognitive Representations
3. Discursive Practices
4. From Theory of Mind to the Interpretation of Signs
5. Intentionality and Emblemeticity
6. Selfhood, Affect, and Value
1. I Err Therefore I am
2. From Subjectivity to Selfhood
3. From Cognition to Affect
4. Maps, Terrains, and Travelers
5. From Meaning to Value