Isaac E Catt
Biographic Data
| ID | 2429751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac E Catt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac E |
| FAMILY NAME | Catt |
| SIGNATURE | CATT I E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duquesne University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1689-1624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Human in Human Dignity
Only the incurious and philosophically challenged doubt the significance of dignity as a central issue in human interactions. Human dignity is much debated in religion, law, moral philosophy, anthropology, psychiatry, bioethics, sociology, philosophical anthropology, psychology, communication studies, and elsewhere. It is subject to competing discourses of ontology, epistemology, axiology, and logic. It appears in intercultural and international …
The Precarious Person in Pierre Bourdieu, Helmuth Plessner, and Psychocentric Culture
Trends in human science seek to expand and situate the concept of the psychological individual emphasizing biology, society, or culture as causes, catalysts, or contexts. I enter the conversation, synthesizing Bourdieu and Plessner especially regarding ambivalent positionality, habitus, and the experience of communication. Bourdieu's conception of the cleft habitus/hexis of bodies in social space is interpreted alongside Plessner's rendering of t…
Border Work in Precarity and Boundary Play in Communicology
This essay considers borders as symbols of precarity and the possibility of re-framing them through boundary play. While borders were historically installed as military defenses they are now chiefly used to prevent and control migrants. My argument is against the either-or thinking that prevails in bordering and othering. Prominent social science perspectives are considered. By focusing on the semiotic phenomenological relations of homeland, home…
Communicology and human conduct
This paper examines habits, and particularly habitus as the locus of semiotic constraints and artful practices comprising human conduct. The disciplinary contexts of communication in semiotics and semiotics in communication are contrasted. Winfried Nöth's recent take on C. S. Peirce and habits is interpreted from the perspective of semiotic phenomenology. Culture is argued to be the threshold of the human world, and habits are a key to understand…
The Two Sciences of Communication in Philosophical Context
Two claims are at stake for a science of communication. This essay brings into focus the philosophical distinctions between the human science of communication and the social science of communication. Social science is argued to be the dominant paradigm in mainstream communication inquiry in the United States. Its underlying basis is information theory. Communicology is a human science that differs from social science in that it focuses not on the…
Border Work in Precarity and Boundary Play in Communicology
This essay considers borders as symbols of precarity and the possibility of re-framing them through boundary play. While borders were historically installed as military defenses they are now chiefly used to prevent and control migrants. My argument is against the either-or thinking that prevails in bordering and othering. Prominent social science perspectives are considered. By focusing on the semiotic phenomenological relations of homeland, home…
The Two Sciences of Communication in Philosophical Context
Two claims are at stake for a science of communication. This essay brings into focus the philosophical distinctions between the human science of communication and the social science of communication. Social science is argued to be the dominant paradigm in mainstream communication inquiry in the United States. Its underlying basis is information theory. Communicology is a human science that differs from social science in that it focuses not on the…
The Two Sciences of Communication in Philosophical Context
Two claims are at stake for a science of communication. This essay brings into focus the philosophical distinctions between the human science of communication and the social science of communication. Social science is argued to be the dominant paradigm in mainstream communication inquiry in the United States. Its underlying basis is information theory. Communicology is a human science that differs from social science in that it focuses not on the…
Communicology and human conduct
This paper examines habits, and particularly habitus as the locus of semiotic constraints and artful practices comprising human conduct. The disciplinary contexts of communication in semiotics and semiotics in communication are contrasted. Winfried Nöth's recent take on C. S. Peirce and habits is interpreted from the perspective of semiotic phenomenology. Culture is argued to be the threshold of the human world, and habits are a key to understand…
Border Work in Precarity and Boundary Play in Communicology
This essay considers borders as symbols of precarity and the possibility of re-framing them through boundary play. While borders were historically installed as military defenses they are now chiefly used to prevent and control migrants. My argument is against the either-or thinking that prevails in bordering and othering. Prominent social science perspectives are considered. By focusing on the semiotic phenomenological relations of homeland, home…
The Precarious Person in Pierre Bourdieu, Helmuth Plessner, and Psychocentric Culture
Trends in human science seek to expand and situate the concept of the psychological individual emphasizing biology, society, or culture as causes, catalysts, or contexts. I enter the conversation, synthesizing Bourdieu and Plessner especially regarding ambivalent positionality, habitus, and the experience of communication. Bourdieu's conception of the cleft habitus/hexis of bodies in social space is interpreted alongside Plessner's rendering of t…
On the Human in Human Dignity
Only the incurious and philosophically challenged doubt the significance of dignity as a central issue in human interactions. Human dignity is much debated in religion, law, moral philosophy, anthropology, psychiatry, bioethics, sociology, philosophical anthropology, psychology, communication studies, and elsewhere. It is subject to competing discourses of ontology, epistemology, axiology, and logic. It appears in intercultural and international …
Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Human science (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Boundary (topology (1 work) · Boundary-work (1 work) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 work) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 work)