Diagrammatology

by Stjernfelt, Frederik

• ISBN13: 9781402056512
• ISBN10: 1402056516
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-03
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. The book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporanous doctrine of "categorial intuition" and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology. Diagrams, on a Peircean account, allow for observation and experimentation with ideal structures and objects and thus furnish the access to the synthetic a priori of the regional and formal ontology of the Husserlian tradition.The second part of the book focuses on three regional branches of semiotics: biosemiotics, picture analysis, and the theory of literature. Based on diagrammatology, these domains appear as accessible for a diagrammatological approach which leaves the traditional relativism and culturalism of semiotics behind and hence constitutes a realist semiotics.

Table of Contents

Diagrams - Peirce and Husserl	p. 1
Let's stick together : Peirce's conception of continuity	p. 3
The physiology of arguments - Peirce's extreme realism the continuum in Peirce's theory of signs	p. 23
How to learn more : an apology for a strong concept of iconicity	p. 49
Moving pictures of thought : diagrams as centerpiece of a Peircean epistemology	p. 89
Everything is transformed : transformation in semiotics	p. 117
Categories, diagrams, schemata : the cognitive grasping of ideal objects in Husserl and Peirce	p. 141
Mereology : parts and wholes in phenomenology and semiotics	p. 161
Diagrammatical reasoning and the synthetic a priori	p. 175
Biosemiotics, pictures, literature	p. 195
Biosemiotics as material and formal ontology	p. 197
A natural symphony? : Von Uexkull's Bedeutungslehre and its actuality	p. 225
Man the abstract animal : diagrams, abstraction, and the semiotic missing link	p. 241
The signifying body : a semiotic concept of embodiment	p. 257
Christ levitating and the vanishing square : diagrams in picture analysis	p. 275
Into the picture : Husserl's picture theories - and two types of pictures	p. 289
Small outline of a theory of the sketch	p. 321
Who is Michael Wo-Ling Ptah-Hotep Jerolomon? : literary interpretation as thought experiment	p. 327
Five types of schematic iconicity in the literary text - an extension of the ingardenian viewpoint	p. 345
The man who knew too much : espionage in reality and fiction : regional ontology and iconicity	p. 365
Peirce's conception of continuity between mathematics and philosophy
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