Natural Propositions: The Actuality of Peirce’s Doctrine of Dicisigns

Frederik Stjernfelt

ABOUT THE BOOK

Natural Propositions is about the desirable consequence of Charles Peirce’s conception of propositions; namely, that they are no strangers to a naturalist world-view and thus form natural inhabitants of reality. This is because propositions – in Peirce’s generalization: Dicisigns – do not depend upon human language nor upon human consciousness or intentionality, contrary to most standard assumptions. In addition to a careful consideration of Peirce’s work, the book includes numerous examples of Dicisigns in nature as firefly signaling and vervet monkey alarm calls.

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About the Author

Frederik Stjernfelt, Professor of Semiotics, Intellectual History, and Theory of Science, at the University of Copenhagen. Leader of the Humanomics Project. Among his international publications are the books Diagrammatology: Investigations on the Borderline of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics (Springer 2007) and The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism (with Jens-Martin Eriksen, Telos Press 2012). Critic at Weekend-Avisen. Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

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Publication Date: Apr 18, 2014

ISBN/EAN13: 0988744961 / 9780988744967

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Binding Type: US Trade Paper

Trim Size: 6" x 9"

Language: English

Color: Black & White