Peirce's Theory of Signs

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
How to Read this Book......Page 13
Other Views of Peirce’s Semeiotic......Page 14
A Note on Terminology......Page 16
Bibliographical Note......Page 18
Acknowledgments......Page 19
1. Peirce......Page 21
2. Sources of Peirce's Semeiotic in Locke and Kant......Page 22
3. Brentano on Intentionality......Page 26
4. Chisholm, Quine, et al. on Intentionality......Page 31
5. Saussure's Semiology......Page 36
6. Aristotle, the Stoics, St. Augustine......Page 41
2 The Development of Peirce's Semeiotic......Page 47
1. 1865–1866: Thoughts as Representations......Page 48
2. 1867: The 'New List'......Page 51
3. 1868–1869: Thought-signs......Page 52
4. 1859–1877: Nominalism versus Realism......Page 56
5. Three Flaws in the 1868–869 Doctrine of Thought-signs......Page 62
6. Derrida et cie......Page 65
7. 1877–1885: The First Flaw Corrected......Page 66
8. After 1885: Consequences of the Foregoing......Page 71
9. 1903: The Second Flaw Corrected......Page 73
10. 1907: The Last Flaw Corrected......Page 76
3 Phaneroscopy......Page 80
1. The 1902 Architectonic......Page 81
2. The Phaneron and Phaneroscopic Method......Page 86
3. The Language of Phaneroscopy......Page 91
4. 1stness and 2ndness......Page 95
5. Two Forms of Generality......Page 98
6. The Experience of Continuity......Page 100
7. The Experience of Causing......Page 102
8. 3rdness......Page 104
9. The Categories Interpreted Metaphysically......Page 106
10. The System of Categories......Page 109
4 A Preface to Final Causation......Page 111
1. Strange Objects of Desire......Page 112
2. What Is Mechanical?......Page 114
3. Teleology's Locus Classicus......Page 118
4. A Budget of Errors......Page 123
5. Hume's Ghost......Page 125
6. Ordinary Purposes......Page 128
7. The Mysterious Case of the Surplus Body......Page 132
1. Explanation in Statistical Mechanics......Page 137
2. Reflections on the Preceding......Page 144
3. Natural Selection......Page 148
4. Evolution and Entropy......Page 153
5. Peirce's Concept of Final Causation......Page 156
6. Comparison to Recent Views......Page 159
7. Purpose's Realm......Page 164
6 Significance......Page 171
1. Teleology as Conjectural and Empirical......Page 172
2. Valuation as Teleological......Page 173
3. 'Interpret' Defined......Page 176
4. 'Sign' Defined......Page 179
6. The Breadth of These Definitions......Page 182
7. Peirce’s Definitions of ‘Sign’......Page 184
8. Peirce’s 1907 View......Page 188
9. Significance and Purpose......Page 192
10. Intentionality Explained......Page 194
7 Objects and Interpretants......Page 198
1. Much Groping, No Conclusion......Page 200
2. Immediate, Dynamic, and Final Interpretants......Page 207
3. Immediate and Dynamic Objects......Page 211
4. Peirce’s Realism......Page 216
5. Emotional, Energetic, and Logical Interpretants......Page 220
8 A Taxonomy of Signs......Page 227
1. Qualisign, Sinsign, Legisign......Page 228
2. Icon, Index, Symbol......Page 234
a. Icons......Page 235
b. Indices......Page 239
c. Symbols......Page 240
3. Iconic, Indexical, and Symbolic Legisigns......Page 242
4. A Common Error Corrected......Page 245
5. Rheme, Dicisign, Argument......Page 251
1. Principles of Semeiotic Taxonomy......Page 255
2. Dicisigns and Assertion......Page 262
3. Six Trichotomies......Page 268
4. Ten Trichotomies......Page 276
5. Where We Are Now......Page 280
10 How Symbols Grow......Page 283
1. Hypostatic Abstraction......Page 284
2. The Hiddenness of Abstraction......Page 290
3. A Very Virtuous Variety of Vagueness......Page 294
4. Abstraction and Rigid Designation......Page 296
5. Incommensurability and Meaning’s ‘Location’......Page 299
6. Pragmatism and the Growth of Symbols......Page 305
11 Semeiosis and the Mental......Page 309
1. Contemporary Philosophy of Mind......Page 311
2. Functionalism's Problem with Content......Page 315
3. On Being Simple-minded......Page 321
4. Beyond Biology......Page 323
5. Consciousness and Subjectivity......Page 331
12 The Structure of Objectivity......Page 337
1. Antifoundationalism......Page 338
2. Objectivity......Page 343
3. Peirce’s Concept of Science......Page 346
4. A Fixation on Truth......Page 350
5. How Theories Are Tested......Page 353
6. Why Observe?......Page 357
7. Realism, Not Relativism......Page 361
8. How Aims Are Tested......Page 364
9. Objectivity and Freedom......Page 366
Peirce’s Writings Cited in the Text......Page 369
Other Works......Page 370
Name Index......Page 381
Subject Index......Page 385