Consciousness

Keyword: Consciousness


News | Posted 26/03/2018
New book: 'Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs: How Peircean Semiotics Combines Phenomenal Qualia and Practical Effects' by Marc Champagne

Publisher's description:

It is often thought that consciousness has a qualitative dimension that cannot be tracked by science. Recently, however, some philosophers have argued that this...

Monograph | Posted 26/03/2018
Champagne, Marc (2018). Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs: How Peircean Semiotics Combines Phenomenal Qualia and Practical Effects

It is often thought that consciousness has a qualitative dimension that cannot be tracked by science. Recently, however, some philosophers have argued that this worry stems not from an elusive...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 25/11/2016
Fabbrichesi, Rossella: "Peirce, Mead, and the Theory of Extended Mind"

In 1998, Clark and Chalmers addressed a question that remained pivotal in the discussion afterwards: “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” Their inquiry, developed by many...

Article in Journal | Posted 25/03/2016
Girel, Mathias (2003). The Metaphysics and Logic of Psychology: Peirce's Reading of James's Principles
Deals with some fundamental agreements and disagreements between Charles S. Peirce and William James on issues such as perception and consciousness as implicated in Peirce's reading of James...
Article in Journal | Posted 04/01/2016
Champagne, Marc (2014). Referring to the Qualitative Dimension of Consciousness: Iconicity instead of Indexicality
Article in Journal | Posted 29/12/2015
Moro, Christiane, Dupertuis, Virginie, Fardel, Sandrine, Piguet, Olivia (2015). Investigating the development of consciousness through ostensions toward oneself from the onset of the use-of-object to first words
This paper considers the development of consciousness in a pragmatic and semiotic perspective. Grounded in Vygotsky’s pivotal cultural-historical conception of sign, the role of nonverbal signs...
Article in Edited Collection | Posted 18/12/2015
Anttila, Raimo (1980). Language and the Semiotics of Perception. In: The Signifying Animal: The Grammar of Language and Experience
Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/10/2015
Quote from "Issues of Pragmaticism"

…anti-synechistic thinkers wind themselves up in a factitious snarl by falsifying the phenomena in representing consciousness to be, as it were, a skin, a separate tissue, overlying an unconscious...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…I am far from holding consciousness to be an “epiphenomenon,” though the doctrine that it is so has aided the development of science. To my apprehension, the function of consciousness is to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…it must not be inferred that I regard consciousness as a mere “epiphenomenon”; though I heartily grant that the hypothesis that it is so has done good service to science. To my apprehension,...

Manuscript | Posted 20/08/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1897-8). Mems for 8 Lectures. MS [R] 945

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
The freedom of unbounded possibility (before time and space were organized). The nothing of the not yet being distinguished from the...

Manuscript | Posted 19/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1902 [c.]). Reason's Rules. MS [R] 599

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902], pp. 4-45, 31-42, and 8 pp. of fragments.
The nature of a sign. Propositions as the significations of signs which represent that some...

Article in Journal | Posted 23/11/2014
Brier, Søren (2012). What Does it Take to Produce Interpretation? Informational, Peircean and Code-Semiotic Views on Biosemiotics
This paper presents a critical analysis of code-semiotics, which we see as the latest attempt to create paradigmatic foundation for solving the question of the emergence of life and consciousness. We...
Manuscript | Posted 31/08/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 7

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-16, with 3 rejected pages; 17-19 of another draft.
Mathematics as dealing essentially with signs. The MSS. below (Nos. 8-11) are...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/06/2014
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"

What the psychologists study is mind, not consciousness exclusively. Their mistake upon this point has had a singularly disastrous result, because consciousness is a very simple thing. Only take...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 08/05/2013
Fetzer, James: "Peirce and the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence"

A philosophical appraisal of historical positions on the nature of thought, mentality, and intelligence, this survey begins with the views of Descartes, Turing, and Newell and Simon, but includes...

Manuscript | Posted 04/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic. MS [R] 478

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1903-2b and G-1903-2d, pp. 1-168 (pp. 106-136 missing); a second title page; pp. 2-23 of a revised section; 69 pp. of variants; and a...