Everything seems so settled here: The conceivability of post-Peircean biosemiotics

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Result on the web

<a href="http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2019.47.3-4.04/11335" target="_blank" >http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2019.47.3-4.04/11335</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2019.47.3-4.04" target="_blank" >10.12697/SSS.2019.47.3-4.04</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Everything seems so settled here: The conceivability of post-Peircean biosemiotics

Original language description

Theory change is a slow, tortuous process. Problems associated with how we communicate ideas and how these ideas are received by our peers become catalysts for change in how we ourselves perceive and sanction what the discipline is capable of doing. Some parts of semiotics, and particularly biosemiotics, have come under critical scrutiny because of their heavy commitment to Peircean philosophy, but at the same time, the contributions of Peircean philosophy are almost impossible to discount. The ripples of this situation are quite visible in the emergence of code biology as a post-semiotic research programme. Yet there is a general balance between those who do not put that much stock in Peircean concepts and those who cannot conceive semiotics without these. This paper will ask whether a biosemiotics after Peirce is possible at all in the sense of acknowledging Peirce’s contributions to the field while also taking to heart the criticisms raised by those skeptical of the implications of Peircean semiotics. While the answer is most likely positive, it depends on what background our concept of meaning relies on and how it may bleed into the other areas of semiotics that biosemiotics may claim a stake on. Being able to discuss potential theoretical distinctions across semiotics while also allowing communication between the areas caught in this differentiation will be crucial for the health of the discipline as the gap between theories becomes more profound.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sign Systems Studies

ISSN

1406-4243

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3/4

Country of publishing house

EE - ESTONIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

420-435

UT code for WoS article

000518043000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85082932198