Swampman encounters an Immediate Object: Social and psychological reductions of signs: Some discussions of the critics of Natural Propositions

Frederik Stjernfelt

Swampman encounters an Immediate Object: Social and psychological reductions of signs: Some discussions of the critics of Natural Propositions

Frederik Stjernfelt

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

Abstract

This paper is a response to three reviews of the author's 2014 book Natural Propositions: The Actuality of Peirce's Doctrine of Dicisigns, by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Helmut Pape, and Göran Sonesson, respectively. Addressed here are issues like the Swampman argument and the character of Peirce's concept of "Immediate Object". A conclusion makes a general observation that semiotics is threatened by reductions of signs to sociological conventions on the one hand and mental phenomena on the other - arguing that communities as well as minds presuppose sign structure and use.

Original language	English
Journal	Cognitive Semiotics
Volume	8
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	155–172
Number of pages	18
ISSN	1662-1425
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2015

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
propositions
dicisigns
peirce
semiotics
immediate object

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Swampman encounters an Immediate Object: Social and psychological reductions of signs: Some discussions of the critics of Natural Propositions

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