Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs

Develops a novel stance on one of the most vibrant controversies in current philosophy: the hard problem of consciousness

Lifts Peirce's difficult semiotic theory out its inner circle of experts, showing why and how it can advance mainstream philosophical debates

Explores important but misunderstood principles like iconicity and the type/token/tone distinction

Autorentext
Marc Champagne is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trent University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Philosophy from York University and a Ph.D. degree in Semiotics from UQAM, where he studied with the Peirce-Wittgenstein Research Group. In addition to publishing in many peer-reviewed philosophy journals, he was tasked with gathering the best literature on semiotics for Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy.

Inhalt

1. The promise of semiotic inquiry.- 2. The past, present, and future of semiotic inquiry.- 3. Tone-deaf no more.- 4. A missed avenue.- 5. The Peircean alternative.- 6. Prescission as our undo button.- 7. Getting in touch without touching.- 8. Simplicity within complexity.- 9. Peirce's merger versus Poinsot's buffer.- 10. Un-Lockeing a coloured world.- 11. Information flow, information pause.- 12. What sort of ontology might this imply?