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Notes: general editor of the series Elize Bisanz

Annotation: In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce’s triadic logic, linguistics and biology; the author, as a linguist, draws out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce’s logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.

Identifier: 9783631925935

Status: Available

Other title information: A Cosmology of Learning and Loving

Annotation: This book investigates the philosophy of education implicit in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It is commonly accepted that the acts of learning and teaching imply affection of some sort, and Charles Peirce’s evolutionary semiotics thoroughly explains learning as an act of love. According to Peirce, we evolved to learn and to love; learning from other people has proved to be one of the best ways to carry out our infinite pursuit of truth, since love is the very characteristic of truth. As such, the teacher and the student practise love in their relation with one another. Grounded within an edusemiotics framework and also exploring the iconic turn in semiotics and recent developments in biosemiotics, this is the first book-length study of Peirce’s contribution to the philosophy of education.

Identifier: 9783034318822

Status: Available

Other title information: Philosophical Essays

Notes: edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen with an essay by John Deely. Reprint from the original 1923 edition by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. New York.

Annotation: Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles S. Peirce that are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.

Identifier: 0803287518

Status: Available