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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Sign Systems Studies

ISSN

1406-4243

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

47

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3/4

Stát vydavatele periodika

EE - Estonská republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

420-435

Kód UT WoS článku

000518043000004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85082932198