HVKK03114U Visuel kultur/lit.vid/moderne kultur: Peirces semiotik - AFLYST

Årgang 2015/2016
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Visual Culture: Peirce's Semiotics - CANCELLED

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This course gives a critical introduction to Peirce's semiotics on the basis of his pragmatism. It is overall chronologically oriented, beginning with Peirce's pragmatism and logic of the 1860-1880s to give the background of the detailed semiotics developed in the years after 1900. Here, a special emphasis lies on the often-overlooked connection between semiotics, logic, and cognition, giving propositions a central role. Peirce's notion of propositions, however, is cross-modal, involving not only linguistic elements but also pictures, diagrams, gesture, etc. THIS GIVES OCCASION TO THE INVOLVEMENT OF ANALYTICAL EXAMPLES.. DURING THE COURSE, CONTRASTS TO OTHER CURRENTS IN LOGIC, SEMIOTICS, LITERARY THEORY ETC. WILL BE DISCUSSED.
Access to Peirce's Collected Papers (CP) will be provided; the participants should acquire FS "Natural Propositions. The Actuality of Peirce's Doctrine of Dicisigns" (Boston 2014: Docent Press - £7.73 on Amazon)
The course plan will indicate reading for each class from the CP, given, as is usual practice, by volume and paragraph numbers (NB not page numbers). Relevant chapters of FS: Diagrammatology (Springer 2007) will be provided.
Further reading will be added at the website during the course. Recommended: The Essential Peirce I-II (paperbacks, Indiana UP 1992, 1998),


1. Introduction to course plan - and to Peirce as a person.
The development of Peirce's thinking - an overview
Reading: Joseph Brent - http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/brent/pursuing.htm (Recommended: Joseph Brent Peirce. A Life, 1998)

2. The Categories; the concept of Information -  papers to Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 7 - "On a New List of Categories", and to  Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1868-69 -  "Questions concerning certain Faculties claimed for Man", "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" ...
Reading: "On a New List", CP 1.545-1.567; NP ch. 9

3. The "Pragmatic Maxim" - the papers about "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" in Popular Science Monthly 1878-79 - "Fixation of Belief", "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" ...
Reading: "How to Make Our Ideas Clear", CP 5.388-410

4 . The formalization of Logic - logic of relations, quantifiers - "On the Algebra of Logic", 1880 and 1885 - Existential Graphs 1898-1905 -
Reading: "Existential Graphs" CP 4.394-408 (from "Syllabus", 1903)

5. "Scholastic Realism" - "Real Possibilities"
(recommended: John Boler "Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism", 1963)
Reading: "The Reality of Thirdness", CP 5.93-119 (from "Lectures on Pragmatism", lecture IV, 1903); FS Diagrammatology, ch. 2

6. Phaneroscopy - Structure of the sciences - Carnegie Application 1902
Reading: CP 1.284-353 (different texts on phenomenology and the categories, after 1900), Carnegie Application 1902 ( http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/l75/l75.htm)

7. Peirce's concept of the sign - "Minute Logic", "Syllabus", "Lectures on Pragmatism" 1902-03 NP ch. 1
The first trichotomy - Tone-Token-Type CP 2.243-46

8. The second trichotomy - Icon-Index-Symbol -
reading: CP 2.274-308; FS Diagrammatology, ch.3

9. The third trichotomy - Rheme-Dicisign-Argument - sections on R-D-A in CP 2.227-273, NP ch. 3

10. Diagrammatical Reasoning - Abduction-Deduction-Induction
The 1905-06 Monist papers - "; CP 4.530-572 - FS: Diagrammatology ch. 4

11. Corollarial and Theorematical Reasoning with Diagrams - NP ch. 10
 Prescissive and Hypostatic Abstraction - NP ch. 6
 

Access to Peirce's Collected Papers (CP) will be provided; the participants should acquire FS "Natural Propositions. The Actuality of Peirce's Doctrine of Dicisigns" (Boston 2014: Docent Press - £7.73 on Amazon)
The course plan will indicate reading for each class from the CP, given, as is usual practice, by volume and paragraph numbers (NB not page numbers). Relevant chapters of FS: Diagrammatology (Springer 2007) will be provided.
Further reading will be added at the website during the course. Recommended: The Essential Peirce I-II (paperbacks, Indiana UP 1992, 1998),

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