Peirce's Theory of Signs Book

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Antecedents and Alternatives 1

1 Peirce 1

2 Sources of Peirce's Semeiotic in Locke and Kant 2

3 Brentano on Intentionality 6

4 Chisholm, Quine, et al. on Intentionality 11

5 Saussure's Semiology 16

6 Aristotle, the Stoics, St. Augustine 21

2 The Development of Peirce's Semeiotic 27

1 1865-1866: Thoughts as Representations 28

2 1867: The 'New List' 31

3 1868-1869: Thought-signs 32

4 1859-1877: Nominalism versus Realism 36

5 Three Flaws in the 1868-1869 Doctrine of Thought-signs 42

6 Derrida et cie 45

7 1877-1885: The First Flaw Corrected 46

8 After 1885: Consequences of the Foregoing 51

9 1903: The Second Flaw Corrected 53

20 1907: The Last Flaw Corrected 56

3 Phaneroscopy 60

1 The 1902 Architectonic 61

2 The Phaneron and Phaneroscopic Method 66

3 The Language of Phaneroscopy 71

4 1stness and 2ndness 75

5 Two Forms of Generality 78

6 The Experience of Continuity 80

7 The Experience of Causing 82

8 3rdness 84

9 The Categories Interpreted Metaphysically 86

10 The System of Categories 89

4 A Preface to Final Causation 91

1 Strange Objects of Desire 92

2 What Is Mechanical? 94

3 Teleology's Locus Classicus 98

4 A Budget of Errors 103

5 Hume's Ghost 105

6 Ordinary Purposes 108

7 The Mysterious Case of the Surplus Body 112

5 Final Causation 117

1 Explanation in Statistical Mechanics 117

2 Reflections on the Preceding 124

3 Natural Selection 128

4 Evolution and Entropy 133

5 Peirce's Concept of Final Causation 136

6 Comparison to Recent Views 139

7 Purpose's Realm 144

6 Significance 151

1 Teleology as Conjectural and Empirical 152

2 Valuationas Teleological 153

3 'Interpret' Defined 156

4 'Sign' Defined 159

5 'Significance' Defined 162

6 The Breadth of These Definitions 162

7 Peirce's Definitions of 'Sign' 164

8 Peirce's 1907 View 168

9 Significance and Purpose 172

10 Intentionality Explained 174

7 Objects and Interpretants 178

1 Much Groping, No Conclusion 180

2 Immediate, Dynamic, and Final Interpretants 187

3 Immediate and Dynamic Objects 191

4 Peirce's Realism 196

5 Emotional, Energetic, and Logical Interpretants 200

8 A Taxonomy of Signs 207

1 Qualisign, Sinsign, Legisign 208

2 Icon, Index, Symbol 214

3 Iconic, Indexical, and Symbolic Legisigns 222

4 A Common Error Corrected 225

5 Rheme, Dicisign, Argument 231

9 More Taxa 235

1 Principles of Semeiotic Taxonomy 235

2 Dicisigns and Assertion 242

3 Six Trichotomies 248

4 Ten Trichotomies 256

5 Where We Are Now 260

10 How Symbols Grow 263

1 Hypostatic Abstraction 264

2 The Hiddenness of Abstraction 270

3 A Very Virtuous Variety of Vagueness 274

4 Abstraction and Rigid Designation 276

5 Incommensurability and Meaning's 'Location' 279

6 Pragmatism and the Growth of Symbols 285

11 Semeiosis and the Mental 289

1 Contemporary Philosophy of Mind 291

2 Functionalism's Problem with Content 295

3 On Being Simple-minded 301

4 Beyond Biology 303

5 Consciousness and Subjectivity 311

12 The Structure of Objectivity 317

1 Antifoundationalism 318

2 Objectivity 323

3 Peirce's Concept of Science 326

4 A Fixation on Truth 330

5 How Theories Are Tested 333

6 Why Observe? 337

7 Realism, Not Relativism 341

8 How Aims Are Tested 344

9 Objectivity and Freedom 346

Bibliography 349

Name Index 361

Subject Index 365