CONFERENCE: Mind in Motion and the Body of the Sign –
Peirce’s Semiotical Pragmatism

 

VENUE: HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN

UNTER DEN LINDEN 6, 10099 BERLIN, ROOM 3031

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MARCH 15–17, 2012

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Peirce developed a concept of mind that was designed to connect ideas, diagrams and pictures in mental processes generating propositions, meaning and interpretations. But he switched from the option that mind in general and cognition in particular is best understood by a semiotics of thought-signs to an explanation by some particular logical sign system, e.g. the existential graphs. Of course, this is neither a contradiction nor an exclusive alternative. For, much depends on what aspect of mental processes he wanted to understand, whether he described logical relations or the material qualities of individual signs. However, one of the point of Peirce’s semiotics of mental processes is that both aspects, process relations and material qualities, have to be embodied semiotically. In a number of ways, not only by inventing the type / token distinction Peirce makes embodiment both of material quality and of relations between signs the core of his semiotics and his approach to mind. This is important for other parts of his philosophy. E.g., within in a semiotical account of the mind, pragmatism describes a method how to construct a specific relation of embodiment in terms of practical consequences. The aim of the conference is to relate embodiment, semiotics and graphical logic to each other in such way that they help to throw new light on Peirce’s philosophy of mental processes.

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Talk (in German)

Prof. Dr. Ernst van de Wetering, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Berlin, 02/14/2012, 19.15 pm
Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dorotheenstr. 26
Hörsaal 207
10117 Berlin

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Organized by:
Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung

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