Peirce on Signs
Peirce on Signs Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as…
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Peirce on Signs
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. 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. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think.
James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. 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. His introduction explains the place of Peirce's semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce's