17.713, Books: Philosophy of Language/Pragmatics: Pietarinen

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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:32:38
From: Jasper de Vaal < jasper.devaal at springer.com >
Subject:  Signs of Logic: Pietarinen




Title: Signs of Logic
Subtitle: Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and 
Communication Series Title: Synthese Library

Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Springer (Taylor and Francis)
           http://www.springeronline.com Book URL: 
http://www.springer.com/1-4020-3728-7

Author: Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, University of Helsinki

Hardback: ISBN: 1402037287 Pages: 496 Price: U.S. $ 229


Abstract:

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the principal subject of this book, 
was one of the most profound and prolific thinkers and scientists to 
have come out of the United States. His pragmatic logic and scientific 
methodology largely represent the application of interactive and 
intercommunicative triadic processes, best viewed as strategic and 
dialogic conceptualisations of logical aspects of thought, reasoning 
and action. These viewpoints also involve pragmatic issues in 
communicating linguistic signs, and are unified in his diagrammatic 
logic of existential graphs. The various game-theoretic approaches to 
the semantics and pragmatics of signs and language, to the theory of 
communication, and to the evolutionary emergence of signs, provide a 
contemporary toolkit, the relevance of which Peirce envisioned to a 
wondrous extent.

This work sheds considerable new light on these and other aspects of 
Peirce's philosophy and his pragmatic theory of meaning. Many of his 
most significant writings in this context reflect his later thinking, 
covering roughly the last 15-20 years of his life, and they are still 
unpublished. Drawing comprehensively from his unpublished manuscripts, 
the book offers a fresh and rich picture of this remarkable man's 
original involvement with logical aspects of thought in action.

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Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
		     Semantics

Written In: English  (eng)
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