Signs of Logic
Subtitle: Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and Communication (Synthese Library)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781402037283
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Logic; Movements - Pragmatism; Game Theory; Peirce; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatism; (Charles Sanders),; 1839-1914; Communication; Peirce, Charles S
Description: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the principal subject of this book, was one of the most profound and prolific thinkers and scientists to have come out of the United States. His pragmatic logic and scientific methodology largely represent the application of interactive and intercommunicative triadic processes, best viewed as strategic and dialogic conceptualisations of logical aspects of thought, reasoning and action. These viewpoints also involve pragmatic issues in communicating linguistic signs, and are unified in his diagrammatic logic of existential graphs. The various game-theoretic approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of signs and language, to the theory of communication, and to the evolutionary emergence of signs, provide a contemporary toolkit, the relevance of which Peirce envisioned to a wondrous extent. This work sheds considerable new light on these and other aspects of Peirce’s philosophy and his pragmatic theory of meaning. Many of his most significant writings in this context reflect his later thinking, covering roughly the last 15-20 years of his life, and they are still unpublished. Drawing comprehensively from his unpublished manuscripts, the book offers a fresh and rich picture of this remarkable man’s original involvement with logical aspects of thought in action.