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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Charles Sanders Peirce"”.
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Charles Sanders Peirce, the Extraordinary Moment, and Musical Affect
C. S. Peirce's theories of semiotics and continuity provide the basis for an answer as to how and why we perceive 'new' things, especially with regard to artistic discourse. By breaking down so-called 'extraordinary' moments into various categories of signs, and by considering the overlapping …
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Ethics Experience: Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics
… of pragmatist thought arising from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, carried on by William James, John Dewey, and Clarence Irving Lewis, which is developed for the purpose of intervening in contemporary debates concerning truth and principles in metaethics.
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Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration
… pragmatism as developed by philosophers such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. This dissertation contributes to the literature of the history of public administration by documenting this “slighting” and assessing its consequences. The dissertation concludes that public …
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Making Art Work: A Pragmaticistic Interpretation of Art
… – that is a theory based on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce – can encompass the variety of interpretations of a work of art. The first mode is the aesthetic interpretation that focuses on the quality or the degree of feeling of unique presence. The second mode is the semiotic …
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EVOLUTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
… and philosophical excitement. William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey responded to this uncertainty and excitement with a unique interpretation of evolution that recognized the deeply constructive and interactive nature of all living beings. This living idea of evolution fed back …
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Investigating the effects of variety on the piston rod manufacturing process at Gabriel SA (Pty) Ltd
… from the ideas of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (CSP) and that of Chris Argyris. Checkland's, Ackoff's et. al. views on system thinking were also used to form this framework.
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… exchange, in a manner very similar to what Charles Sanders Peirce will call pragmatism several decades later. Dupin's deductive methods and Peirce's abductive logic express the nature of objects in terms of social systems of preference and perception rather metaphysics. Peirce's …
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Translation and Réécriture in the Middle Ages: Rewriting Merlin in the French and Italian Vernacular Traditions
… its methodological basis the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce, particularly the concept of semiosis; this defines interpretation as an exchange of signs, through which meaning is transmitted and developed. In this way, the Merlin corpus will be regarded as a continuum of interpretation, …
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The Contribution of Ethical Reasoning Skills in Forensic Science
… science. The work of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce that focuses on solving problems and analyzing situations using three types of reasoning modes is paramount to understanding and applying reasoning skills. Building on the theoretical foundation from the previous chapters, …
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Drawing, Interpretation and Costume Design: a study of the costumed body informed by watching 'Tanztheater Wuppertal' in rehearsal and performance
… of costume, through its application of texts by Charles Sanders Peirce on semiosis, interpretation and habits, and contributes new insight into costume design practice by enabling the first costume-focussed analysis of works by 'Tanztheater Wuppertal' in the English language. The first part of …
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Some Alternatives to Model Selection and New Approaches to Computing for the Economics. 12/6/2014
… Alfred North Whitehead in the United Kingdom and Charles Sanders Peirce in the United States. I close with a Moore Method inspired course based on this work which provides a practical start for revising the economics curriculum to reclaim the Keynesian- Institutionalist tradition addressing …
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Knowledge As Conversation: Richard Rorty and the Legacy of American Pragmatism
… the core aims of the early pragmatists-Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. These three figures are examined thoroughly to identify the consistencies and inconsistencies in their individual pragmatist doctrines and to define the context in which pragmatism was born. …
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A Semiotic Approach to Russian Military Map Symbology and Terms
… works of the pioneering theorists of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, and their successors in the relatively new field of cartosemiotics—the use of semiotic methodologies to create, understand and apply cartographic representations. Specifically, cartosemiotics …
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Picturing the American story: John Steuart Curry’s limited editions club illustrations and the Regionalist vision in American literature
… theory, particularly the frameworks developed by Charles Sanders Peirce, Roland Barthes, and Mieke Bal, alongside Erwin Panofsky’s associated concepts of iconography and iconology, is employed to analyze the layered meanings embedded in Curry’s illustrations and to investigate how these images …
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A model of compelled nonuse of information
… study, I adopted the pragmatism formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce, a method of evaluating concepts by their practical consequences. This pragmatism applied in two ways to the study of nonuse of information. First, because nonuse of information is a behavior, pragmatism helped me to limit the …
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The Painter and His Poets: Paul Gauguin and Interartistic Exchange
… to France in collaboration with the writer Charles Morice. Instead of interpreting Gauguin’s work through the lens of his biography, this study seeks to elucidate the nature and conditions of the cultural field in which the artist worked by examining objects and texts that he exchanged with …
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Richard Rorty's pragmatism : implications for argumentation theory.
… arise, however, in specifying pragmatism. Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey--the major founders of pragmatism--differed from each other on many key points. This thesis looks to the recent work of Richard Rorty for a consistent formulation of pragmatism. Chapter 2 …
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Graph theory in America 1876-1950
… in graph theory carried out in America was by Charles Sanders Peirce, arguably America's greatest logician and philosopher at the time. In the 1860s, he studied the four-colour conjecture and claimed to have written at least two papers on the subject during that decade, but unfortunately …
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… of diversity. Design/Methodology/Approach: Peirce opposed nominalism and positivism. Thus, this thesis adopts semiotics, effectively shifting diversity from empiriometric paradigm to Peirce’s semiotic realism. Peirce held that humans are themselves signs, dynamically acting as mutual …
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UN INCONTRO TRA DARWINISMO E PRAGMATISMO: LA FILOSOFIA EVOLUZIONISTICA DI CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
… master of famous thinkers as William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, or Oliver Wendell Holmes at the “Metaphysical Club” in Cambridge, now considered the birth place of American Pragmatism. Wright started from the William Hamilton’s philosophy and then, in the 1860s, rejected it in favour of …
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