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Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

by Floyd Merrell
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/05/2008

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Charles S. Peirce was the Founder of Pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates throughout Peirce, Signs, and Meaning that Peirce's views remain dynamically relevant to the analysis of subsequent work in the philosophy of language, including the recent neopragmatic turn.Merrell brings Peirce into dialogue and debate with twentieth-century philosophers from early figures such as Frege, Russell, and Quine, to contemporaries like Goodman, Putnam, Davidson, and Rorty. He appraises this history with an eye to demonstrating how quests for meaning inevitably fall victim to vagueness in pursuit of generality, and how vagueness manifests an inevitable tinge of inconsistency, just as generalities always remain incomplete. Merrell suggests that vagueness and incompleteness/generality, overdetermination and underdetermination, and Peirce's phenomenological categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness must be incorporated into notions of sign structure for a proper treatment of meaning. He also argues that the twentieth-century search for meaning has placed overbearing stress on language while ignoring nonlinguistic sign modes and means.Peirce, Signs, and Meaning is an important follow-up to Merrell's trilogy: Signs Becoming Signs, Semiosis in the Postmodern Age, and Signs Grow. This book is not only a significant contribution to the field of semiotics, it has much to offer scholars in literature, philosophy, linguistics, cultural studies, or any of the many other academic disciplines in which meaning is a centralconcern.
ISBN:
9780802041357
9780802041357
Category:
Western philosophy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-05-2008
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:
Canada
Pages:
408
Dimensions (mm):
241x165mm
Weight:
0.72kg

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