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The Existential Graphs of Charles S. 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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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… the philosophical writings of Charles S. Peirce and the art of the nineteenth-century American landscape painters of the Hudson River School and Luminism. The primary overall goal is to present and argue for a Transcendentalist Aesthetics by making use of the philosophy of Emerson and …
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The Social and the Real: The Idea of Objectivity in Peirce, Brandom, and Mcdowell
… some of the conceptual tools offered by Charles Peirces semiotics and his scientific realism. According to Peirce, norms are objective neither because their authority is located in the world that stands up against our social conventions, nor because we are creatures capable of reflection, but …
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An examination of the life and thought of Zina Fay Peirce, an American reformer and feminist
Zina ray Peirce (1336-1923), the first wife of Cnarles S. Peirce, America’s great philosopher, was a woman who devoted her life to cause of improving the position of women in America. This study examines her specific accomplishments as a reformer; attitudes about women in nineteenth-century America …
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The Sacred Depths of Nature: An Ontology of the Possible in the Philosophy of Peirce and Heidegger
… out a study of the American pragmaticist C.S. Peirce and constructively applies his thought to a religious understanding of nature called "ecstatic naturalism," a philosophy developed by Robert S. Corrington that conjoins American pragmatism and Continental phenomenology. In this project I …
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Critical Pragmatism: Peirce and Marcuse on the Socio-Political Influences on Human Development in Advanced Industrial Societies
… two otherwise antagonistic traditions: Charles Peirce of the pragmatists and Herbert Marcuse of the critical theorists. I demonstrate the affinities between the two philosophers with a focus on their contributions to socio-political thought in advanced industrial societies. After addressing the …
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CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE PHILOSOPHIES OF ARISTOTLE AND PEIRCE WITH REGARD TO NON-DEDUCTIVE INFERENCES AND TO THEORY OF COGNITION
… the philosophies of Aristotle and Charles S. Peirce. It discusses, first, Peirce's reading of Aristotle's works and philosophy, with an emphasis on three studies by Peirce of a translation of Aristotle's Categories, a study on Aristotle's notion of priority, and a study on the current …
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The language of dissent : the defense of eighteenth-century English dissent in the works and sermons of James Peirce.
… dissertation argues that the thought of James Peirce (1674-1726), the Presbyterian minister whose controversial theology was the catalyst for the division of Dissent in 1719, must be considered in relation to his hermeneutic of history. For Peirce, history was the telling of truth or events, …
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EVOLUTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
… 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 into many …
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Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration
… 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 administration does …
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Saulės vaizdinio komunikacija Šiaulių miesto turizmo internetinėje svetainėje /
… study showed that all three categories of the Peirce sign model – icons, indexes and symbols – are used to create the sun image in the textual content of the website. Most fixed indexes and icons, and least symbols. It was observed that the highest concentration of characters is seen in a …
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A model of compelled nonuse of information
… 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 psychologic …
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The Practical Application of Bakhtin and Related Theory to Language Education
… of such major concepts as indexing (as from Peirce), valence (as from Kamberelis), congruence (as from Moyer), and intentional refraction (as from Bakhtin). Upon this foundation is further developed a potentially far-reaching and interrelated semiotic system, involving yet other interrelated …
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Ethics Experience: Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics
… 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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Kontinuum und Konstitution der Wirklichkeit
The work has two parts. The first part is about Peirce and his ideas about the continuum. There are considered the connection of his theory of continuity with his loic and his philosophy. In the second part Peirce's ideas are compared with models of todays logic and mathematics. There is considerd …
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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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Pragmatic Epistemology, Community, and the Problem of Solipsism
… and conducted. Pragmatists such as Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and Wilfrid Sellars and contemporary descendents of pragmatism like Wilfrid Sellars embraced the notion of community and developed the crucial role it plays in evaluating knowledge claims. The aim of this thesis is two-fold. I …
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Marital love in Jane Austen: a Peircean analysis of Lady Susan and Pride and Prejudice
… uses the semiotic categories of Charles S. Peirce to analyze the representations of marriage in two of Austen's novels: Lady Susan, as an example of her early, experimental work; and Pride and Prejudice, as an example of her mature work. It tracks the increasing balance in her usage of the …
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