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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as “ideas” but as “signs,” external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs — or semiotic — is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines.
This anthology, the first one–volume work devoted to Peirce’s writings on semiotic, provides a much–needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce’s semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce’s theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.
Editions of Peirce on Signs
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- ISBN 9780807819920
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780807843420
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- ISBN 9781469616810
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- ISBN 9798890873538
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as “ideas” but as “signs,” external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs — or semiotic — is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines.
This anthology, the first one–volume work devoted to Peirce’s writings on semiotic, provides a much–needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce’s semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce’s theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as “ideas” but as “signs,” external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs — or semiotic — is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines.
This anthology, the first one–volume work devoted to Peirce’s writings on semiotic, provides a much–needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce’s semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce’s theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.
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Philosophy and Religion > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy: logic
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Peirce on Signs has 294 page(s)
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The University of North Carolina Press
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Peirce on Signs is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807819920) and paperback(ISBN 9780807843420) and ebook(ISBN 9781469616810) and ebook(ISBN 9781469616827) and ebook(ISBN 9798890873538) and ebook(ISBN 9798893131284)
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