The Semantics of Models: A Semiotic Philosophy of Science Approach

Kralemann, Björn; Lattmann, Claas

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“…Recent scholarship tends to regard Peirce's semiotics as a modelling theory (e.g. Cobley, ; Kralemann and Lattmann, , ; Nöth, ; Olteanu and Stables, ; Sebeok, ; Sebeok and Danesi, ). In this view, his philosophy transcends the experience/language dichotomy of many 20 th century debates on knowledge by considering that meaning is the process and result of living organisms’ modelling of the environment.…”

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Schematic Enough to be Safe from Kidnappers: The Semiotics of Charles Peirce as Transitionalist Pragmatism

Olteanu¹

2019

Journal of Philosophy of Education

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This paper explores the semiotics of Charles Peirce in relation to Colin Koopman's advocacy for a new wave of pragmatism, which he terms transitionalism. Presenting both similarities and differences between these two, the main point is that Peirce's semiotics fits the general idea of a transitionalist, as contrasted to substantialist, philosophy, even though Koopman explicitly excludes this possibility. This is argued both on the grounds of Peirce's own writings and in view of recent, post‐Peircean developments, particularly in semiotics, which highlight certain possibilities of Peirce's pragmatism. Overall, Peirce's concept of the sign as the tool of a relational logic that explicates the transition from hypothesis to conclusion recommends Peirce's pragmatism as avant‐garde for its time and justifies its labelling as transitionalist pragmatism. Some implications for education are identified along the development of the argument.

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