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How to Make Our Signs Clear
C.S. Peirce and Semiotics
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Vít Gvoždiak
Martin Švantner
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Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Švantner
part 1
Semioticization of Philosophy
1 On the Interconnection between Peirce’s Pragmatism and
Semiotics 9
Emil Višňovský
2 Habits, Purposes and Pragmatism 21
Henrik Rydenfelt
3 Logic of Relatives and Semiotics in Peirce. From the
“Subject-Predicate” Inferential Structure to the Synechistic
Topology of Interpretation 36
Claudio Paolucci
part 2
Historical Connections
4 Reflections on the Presence of Peirce’s Category of Firstness
in Schelling’ and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy 59
Ivo Assad Ibri
5 Charybdis of Semiotics and Scylla of Rhetoric. Peirce and Gorgias
of Leontini on the Rhetoric of Being 72
Martin Švantner
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part 3
Peirce Challenged
6 “When You Find a Crossroad, Take it”, Or, How to Do the Right Thing,
Although Not for the Right Reasons 93
Emanuele Fadda
7 Jakobson and Peirce: Deep Misunderstanding,
or Creative Innovation? 106
Vít Gvoždiak
8 Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the
Poststructuralist Context 119
Michaela Fišerová
9 Gilles Deleuzeʼs Theory of Sign and Its Reflection of Peircean
Semiotics 134
Martin Charvát and Michal Karľa
10 Charles Peirce and the Theory of Disembodiment 151
Stephanie Schneider
Index 161
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List of Abbreviations
C.S. Peirce’s Works
cp x.y Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, 8 volumes, vols. 1–6 edited by
Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, vols. 7–8 edited by Arthur W. Burks.
Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press 1931–1958; volume x, para-
graph y.
ep x:y The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, 2 volumes, vol. 1
edited by Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel, vol. 2 edited by the Peirce
Edition Project. Bloomington – Indianapolis: Indiana University Press
1992–1998; volume x, page y.
LI x The Logic of Interdisciplinarity. The Monist-Series, edited by Elize Bisanz.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2009; page x.
MS x:y Peirce’s manuscripts as catalogued in Annotated Catalogue of the Papers
of Charles S. Peirce, edited by Richard S. Robins. Boston: University of
Massachusetts Press 1967; manuscript x, page y.
nem x:y The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, vol. 1–4 edited by
Carolyn Eisele,. The Hague: Mouton 1976; volume x, page y.
pwp x Philosophical Writings of Peirce, edited by Justus Buchler. New York: Dover
Publications, 1955; page x.
rlt x Reasoning and the Logic of Things. The Cambridge Conference Lectures of
1898, edited by Kenneth L. Ketner. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University
Press 1992; page x.
w x:y The Writings of Charles S. Peirce, vol. 1 edited by Max Fisch et al., vol. 2
edited by Edward C. Moore et al., vols. 3–5 edited by Christian Kloesel
et al., vol. 6 edited by the Peirce Edition Project. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press 1980–2000; volume x, page y.
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Notes on Contributors
Emil Višňovský
is full professor of philosophy at Comenius University and senior research fel-
low at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the co-
Chair of the Central European Pragmatist Forum (since 2000), the editor in
chief of international postdisciplinary journal Human Affairs (since 2002,
published in English by de Gruyter) and served as the editor of the book se-
ries Central European Value Studies published by the international Publisher
Rodopi (2006–2016). <[email protected]>
Henrik Rydenfelt
is post-doctoral researcher, University of Oulu. His recent publications are
concentrated on a pragmatist approach to normativity, addressing key ques-
tions in several fields of philosophy, such as epistemology, meta-ethics, ethical
theory and social philosophy. <henrik [email protected]>
Claudio Paolucci
is associate professor of semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Com-
munication of the University of Bologna. Since 2014 he is the scientific co-
ordinator of the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, founded by
Umberto Eco. He has published more than 60 papers in all major international
journals of semiotics. His main work is Strutturalismo e interpretazione (2010).
In 2017 he published a book on his mentor Umberto Eco (in the “Heritage”
series of the Feltrinelli publishing house). His main research areas are semiotic
theory, philosophy of language, semantics, cognitive sciences, enonciation and
subjectivity, semiotics of culture. <[email protected]>
Ivo Assad Ibri
is full professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
(pucsp), Brazil. He is the founder and director of the Center for Pragmatism
Studies of pucsp, editor of the journals Cognitio and Cognitio-Estudos, and
coordinator for the International Meetings on Pragmatism, which biannu-
ally take place in São Paulo. His main research field is American pragmatism,
especially the work of C.S. Peirce, as well as the theoretical connections be-
tween Peircean thought and German idealism. He published several essays on
pragmatism and semiotics and a book on Peirce’s metaphysics called Kósmos
Noétos (2015). He is a member of the board of consultants of the Peirce Edition
Project at Indiana University. He is fellow past vice-president and president
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notes on contributors ix
(February 2014 to February 2016) of The Charles Sanders Peirce Society (USA).
<[email protected]>
Martin Švantner
is assistant professor at Charles University (Department of Electronic C ulture
and Semiotics) and at West Bohemian University (Department of Sociology)
and is a member of Research Centre for History and Theory of Science (West
Bohemina University). His main theorethical interest lies on philosophy (C.S.
Peirce, M. Foucault), history of semiotics, history of rhetorics and theory of
argumentation. <[email protected]>
Emanuele Fadda
is assistant professor of philosophy of language at University of Calabria. He is
member of select Committee of the Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure in Geneva,
editing the Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure. He wrote several papers on classi-
cal pragmatism from a semiotic point of view. His latest book is Peirce (2013).
<[email protected]>
Vít Gvoždiak
is researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech republic. His
professional interest is focused on theoretical semiotics and comparative the-
ory of signs. <[email protected]>
Michaela Fišerová
is philosopher, lecturer at Charles university of Prague and M etropolitan
university of Prague. Her work is specialized in contemporary French
philosophy, mostly in deconstruction and poststructuralism. Her continu-
ous research concerns philosophical aspects of the problematics of visual
communication, visuality and image, mostly photography and signature.
<michaelafi [email protected]>
Martin Charvát
studied semiotics at Charles University and where also received his PhD. Main
domain of his theoretical realm is (appart from philosophy of Deleuze) theory
of literature and interpretation of Czech and French novels (B. Hrabal, J.K.
Šlejhar, Claude Simon). <[email protected]>
Michal Karľa
studied religion at Faculty of Arts and semiotics at Faculty of Humanities,
Charles University, where he is now a PhD student. Among his research
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