Diagrammatology An Investigation On The Borderlines Of Phenomenology

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

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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Editor-in-Chief:

VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.

Honorary Editor:

JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.

Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. ´ JAN WOLENSKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

VOLUME 336

DIAGRAMMATOLOGY AN INVESTIGATION ON THE BORDERLINES OF PHENOMENOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, AND SEMIOTICS

by

Frederik Stjernfelt Learning Lab Denmark The Danish University of Education Copenhagen, Denmark

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4020-5651-2 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5652-9 (e-book)

Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

vii

Introduction

ix

PART I

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Let’s Stick Together Peirce’s Conception of Continuity

3

The Physiology of Arguments – Peirce’s Extreme Realism The Continuum in Peirce’s Theory of Signs

23

How to Learn More An Apology for a Strong Concept of Iconicity

49

Moving Pictures of Thought Diagrams as Centerpiece of a Peircean Epistemology

89

Everything is Transformed Transformation in Semiotics

117

Categories, Diagrams, Schemata The Cognitive Grasping of Ideal Objects in Husserl and Peirce

141

Mereology Parts and Wholes in Phenomenology and Semiotics

161

Diagrammatical Reasoning and the Synthetic A Priori

175

PART II 9.

DIAGRAMS – PEIRCE AND HUSSERL

BIOSEMIOTICS, PICTURES, LITERATURE

Biosemiotics as Material and Formal Ontology

10. A Natural Symphony? Von Uexküll’s Bedeutungslehre and its Actuality v

195 197

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11. Man the Abstract Animal Diagrams, Abstraction, and the Semiotic Missing Link

241

12. The Signifying Body A Semiotic Concept of Embodiment

257

13. Christ Levitating and the Vanishing Square Diagrams in Picture Analysis

275

14. Into the Picture Husserl’s Picture Theories – and Two Types of Pictures

289

15. Small Outline of a Theory of the Sketch

321

16. Who is Michael Wo-Ling Ptah-Hotep Jerolomon? Literary Interpretation as Thought Experiment

327

17. Five Types of Schematic Iconicity in the Literary Text – An Extension of the Ingardenian Viewpoint

345

18. The Man Who Knew Too Much Espionage in Reality and Fiction: Regional Ont