Donna E West
Biographic Data
| ID | 461368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna E West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna E |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Cortland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2326-6210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Double consciousness to scaffold narrative skills
Determining the utility of auditory hallucinations (including imaginary friends) in developing logic is sorely under-investigated (Fernyhough, Charles. 2016. The voices within: The history and science of how we talk to ourselves . New York: Basic Books). The present account demonstrates how Peirce’s double consciousness fueled by his endoporeutic principle, provides insight into how abduction directs adopting arguments from one source while dismi…
États-Unis
2018 Peirce Society Essay Prize (2018) awarded (January, 2019) to Simon Levesque (Université du Québec à Montréal) for his essay entitled “Abduction as regulation: An Input from epigenetics.” 2019 March 2019: Annual Deely Memorial Lecture and Symposium at St. Vincent’s Archabbey and College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. This conference was the second occasion on which John Deely’s work was honored. St. Vincent’s Archives house many of Deely’s …
Logical and practical advantages of double consciousness
This account augments Peirce's concept of consciousness in two ways: 1) it highlights its double nature and 2) it explores how this two-sided consciousness advances modal logic. Double consciousness facilitates inferencing in that differences between old information and new information are noticed; logical conflicts between the two can then be explored and resolved expeditiously. This often natural but a forced need to consider new facts in light…
Primitives of Peirce’s concept of consciousness
This collection of articles by noted Peirce scholars stands at the frontiers of the discipline in expressing a primary issue which runs through Peirce’s semiotic, logic, and metaphysics – how his more mature semiotic is inextricably linked with questions of consciousness. As such, Peirce’s concept of consciousness is augmented in the following ways: intelligent agency, temporal contracts in 4E cognition, the privilege of the non-ego and the role …
The dialogic nature of double consciousness and double stimulation
The objective in this paper is to demonstrate the indispensability of Peirce’s double consciousness to foster abductive reasoning, so that internal/external dialogue inform the worthiness of hunches. These forms of dialogue establish a mental give-and-take forum in which novel meanings/effects are particularly highlighted and noticed. Such attentional shifts are compelled by surprising states of affairs within the beholder’s internal, interpretiv…
The element of surprise in Peirce's double consciousness paradigm
This account will demonstrate that the element of surprise is a fundamental device in establishing double consciousness regimes; it further shows how such dialogic paradigms foster abductive inferences by filtering out irrelevant percepts/antecedents. The account sets up Peirce's Pheme to be the primary device which shocks interpreters' sensibilities (CP 8.266, 1903) - starting them on a course to question conflicting principles between ego and n…
Peirce's vocation for consciousness
Perfectivity in Peirce’s energetic interpretant
Esta investigação ilustra como o Interpretante energético de Peirce facilita a conscientização entre os usuários de signos. Peirce caracteriza o Interpretante energético/existencial como “empenho” e “esforço” (CP 4.536, MS 318). Por forçar a atenção e a progressão da ação, o Interpretante energético destaca as relações de signos atomísticos/pontuais de causa e efeito apresentando junções entre os eventos: começo, meio e fim. A Primeiridade e a Te…
The work of Peirce’s Dicisign in representationalizing early deictic events
Directing attention to features in the here and now (via individual or joint ventures) is the single, most basic purpose for Dicisigns in human ontogeny. To effectively individuate in the stream of relational awareness, attentional devices must maximize notice of the dynamicity of primary graphical displays. This is a complex process, in that it requires codification of several interconnected but individualized spatial systems and event correlate…
Peirce's Creative Hallucinations in the Ontogeny of Abductive Reasoning
This inquiry proposes that Peirce's ultimate concept of dreams, which can be sub-divided in seven different functions, supply the raw material for habit-change inherent in every plausible inference. With references to developmental literature, I propose that dreams represent an outlet whereby children rely upon vivid directional icons of events (virtual habits) in reconciling logical anomalies provoked by unexpected happenings. Accordingly, dream…
Individuating in the dark
This inquiry first identifies signs whose representamen are inherently visuo-spatial (namely, Index) supplying rationale for dicisign status, then demonstrates how such results in difficulties without visual access. Virtually all of Peirce’s illustrations of Index surface in the visual modality: weathercock, clock hands (1903: EP 2: 274), pointing finger, smoke. Experimental findings from blind and sighted children suggest the less effective natu…
The Work of Secondness as Habit in the Development of Early Schemes
This inquiry demonstrates the pivotal place of attentional phenomena in associating sign, Object, and Interpretant in Secondness. It identifies overt attentional habits (Indexes) and how they are modified/replaced in favor of more covert ones (symbols). The role of Peirce’s Object in securing attentional patterns to affairs in Secondness is highlighted. Alterations in use of attentional artifacts determine the kind and degree of reasoning. While …
Dialogue as Habit-Taking in Peirce’s Continuum
In this inquiry, I testify to the central place of signs in Peirce’s cosmology, and to the power of entertaining novel propositions (complementary and conflicting) through dialogue to foster the unity necessary to weld members of his continuum. Peirce’s concept of dialogue becomes the conduit to weld each member of the continuum. Peirce’s primary mover in bringing about this ‘welding’ is chance/habit in sign use itself. Although the self’s place …
Assessing L2 Lexical Versus Inflectional Accuracy Across Skill Levels
Piaget's system of spatial logic
Piaget's system of cognitive development is analyzed, namely, the semiosis of indexical representation and use. His notion of scheme is discussed, capitalizing on index as the most primary semiotic tool in early ontogeny; afterward, advances in spatial skills (topological and projective reasoning) are discussed in light of the foundational role of index in unfolding these spatial concepts. Finally, index's primary function in the onset and perpet…
Cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of deixis am phantasma
Th is inquiry outlines Karl Bühle's three kinds of deixis, focusing particularly on his most advanced use – deixis am phantasma (deictics to refer to absent referents). This use is of primary import to the semiosis of index, given the centrality of the object and the interpretant in changing the function of the indexical sign in ontogeny. Employing deictic signs to refer to absent objects (some of which are mental) constitutes a catalyst from mor…
Peircean Index in the Naming Process
This analysis identifies semiotic differences between pronouns, proper names and count and mass nouns. It showcases the work of Peirce’s Index in the process of individuation, capitalizing upon the ontological and epistemological effects of employing pronouns (particularly demonstratives) as individuals, as opposed to their use as singulars. Peirce’s individual versus singular distinction highlights the contrast between unique separateness, on th…
Translation, representation and the Deaf 'voice
In this article, we introduce a complex world of working with qualitative data in multiple languages, modalities and media. We share some of the theoretical considerations that influenced our decisions about when to translate, what and how. We also report some of the multiple possibilities available to the researcher when analysing data in a visual language - in this case, British Sign Language - sharing considerations in choosing one method over…
Deictic use as a threshold for imaginative thinking
This investigation traces the ontogeny of the use of “I” and how its symbolic use promotes imaginative thinking. Peirce's triadic system is contrasted with Vygotsky's binary system to highlight the import of Thirdness in characterizing the ontogeny of person deictics within conversational roles. Person deictics, such as “I”, are first indexes. Later when their social function/meaning is apprehended, they serve as symbols as well; still later they…
Deaf-Hearing Family Life
This article brings together poetic narratives of three women-two hearing and one deaf-who are mothers to both deaf and hearing children. When asked, "What's the story of your family?" they each uncover, discover, and recover narratives that embrace politics, spirituality, marginalization, ignorance, resistance, love, care, and celebration. Their stories-signed, spoken, and written-deconstruct and reconstruct intimate and poignant experiences of …
Negotiating the Legacy of Hearingness
Rachel and Donna are hearing, sign-language-using researchers who, since 1989/1999, respectively, have worked in the field of Deaf Studies. In 2008, they were both invited, separately, to present at a conference called "I am Deaf: Deaf Studies in the 21st Century" that caused them to reassess who they are and where they fit with Deaf Studies. Donna presented, and Rachel booked a foreign holiday
Negotiating the Legacy of Hearingness
Rachel and Donna are hearing, sign-language-using researchers who, since 1989/1999, respectively, have worked in the field of Deaf Studies. In 2008, they were both invited, separately, to present at a conference called "I am Deaf: Deaf Studies in the 21st Century" that caused them to reassess who they are and where they fit with Deaf Studies. Donna presented, and Rachel booked a foreign holiday
Translation, representation and the Deaf 'voice
In this article, we introduce a complex world of working with qualitative data in multiple languages, modalities and media. We share some of the theoretical considerations that influenced our decisions about when to translate, what and how. We also report some of the multiple possibilities available to the researcher when analysing data in a visual language - in this case, British Sign Language - sharing considerations in choosing one method over…
Deaf-Hearing Family Life
This article brings together poetic narratives of three women-two hearing and one deaf-who are mothers to both deaf and hearing children. When asked, "What's the story of your family?" they each uncover, discover, and recover narratives that embrace politics, spirituality, marginalization, ignorance, resistance, love, care, and celebration. Their stories-signed, spoken, and written-deconstruct and reconstruct intimate and poignant experiences of …
Peircean Index in the Naming Process
This analysis identifies semiotic differences between pronouns, proper names and count and mass nouns. It showcases the work of Peirce’s Index in the process of individuation, capitalizing upon the ontological and epistemological effects of employing pronouns (particularly demonstratives) as individuals, as opposed to their use as singulars. Peirce’s individual versus singular distinction highlights the contrast between unique separateness, on th…
The Work of Secondness as Habit in the Development of Early Schemes
This inquiry demonstrates the pivotal place of attentional phenomena in associating sign, Object, and Interpretant in Secondness. It identifies overt attentional habits (Indexes) and how they are modified/replaced in favor of more covert ones (symbols). The role of Peirce’s Object in securing attentional patterns to affairs in Secondness is highlighted. Alterations in use of attentional artifacts determine the kind and degree of reasoning. While …
Cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of deixis am phantasma
Th is inquiry outlines Karl Bühle's three kinds of deixis, focusing particularly on his most advanced use – deixis am phantasma (deictics to refer to absent referents). This use is of primary import to the semiosis of index, given the centrality of the object and the interpretant in changing the function of the indexical sign in ontogeny. Employing deictic signs to refer to absent objects (some of which are mental) constitutes a catalyst from mor…
The dialogic nature of double consciousness and double stimulation
The objective in this paper is to demonstrate the indispensability of Peirce’s double consciousness to foster abductive reasoning, so that internal/external dialogue inform the worthiness of hunches. These forms of dialogue establish a mental give-and-take forum in which novel meanings/effects are particularly highlighted and noticed. Such attentional shifts are compelled by surprising states of affairs within the beholder’s internal, interpretiv…
The element of surprise in Peirce's double consciousness paradigm
This account will demonstrate that the element of surprise is a fundamental device in establishing double consciousness regimes; it further shows how such dialogic paradigms foster abductive inferences by filtering out irrelevant percepts/antecedents. The account sets up Peirce's Pheme to be the primary device which shocks interpreters' sensibilities (CP 8.266, 1903) - starting them on a course to question conflicting principles between ego and n…
Peirce's vocation for consciousness
Peirce's Creative Hallucinations in the Ontogeny of Abductive Reasoning
This inquiry proposes that Peirce's ultimate concept of dreams, which can be sub-divided in seven different functions, supply the raw material for habit-change inherent in every plausible inference. With references to developmental literature, I propose that dreams represent an outlet whereby children rely upon vivid directional icons of events (virtual habits) in reconciling logical anomalies provoked by unexpected happenings. Accordingly, dream…
Dialogue as Habit-Taking in Peirce’s Continuum
In this inquiry, I testify to the central place of signs in Peirce’s cosmology, and to the power of entertaining novel propositions (complementary and conflicting) through dialogue to foster the unity necessary to weld members of his continuum. Peirce’s concept of dialogue becomes the conduit to weld each member of the continuum. Peirce’s primary mover in bringing about this ‘welding’ is chance/habit in sign use itself. Although the self’s place …
Deictic use as a threshold for imaginative thinking
This investigation traces the ontogeny of the use of “I” and how its symbolic use promotes imaginative thinking. Peirce's triadic system is contrasted with Vygotsky's binary system to highlight the import of Thirdness in characterizing the ontogeny of person deictics within conversational roles. Person deictics, such as “I”, are first indexes. Later when their social function/meaning is apprehended, they serve as symbols as well; still later they…
Deictic use as a threshold for imaginative thinking
This investigation traces the ontogeny of the use of “I” and how its symbolic use promotes imaginative thinking. Peirce's triadic system is contrasted with Vygotsky's binary system to highlight the import of Thirdness in characterizing the ontogeny of person deictics within conversational roles. Person deictics, such as “I”, are first indexes. Later when their social function/meaning is apprehended, they serve as symbols as well; still later they…
Deaf-Hearing Family Life
This article brings together poetic narratives of three women-two hearing and one deaf-who are mothers to both deaf and hearing children. When asked, "What's the story of your family?" they each uncover, discover, and recover narratives that embrace politics, spirituality, marginalization, ignorance, resistance, love, care, and celebration. Their stories-signed, spoken, and written-deconstruct and reconstruct intimate and poignant experiences of …
Negotiating the Legacy of Hearingness
Rachel and Donna are hearing, sign-language-using researchers who, since 1989/1999, respectively, have worked in the field of Deaf Studies. In 2008, they were both invited, separately, to present at a conference called "I am Deaf: Deaf Studies in the 21st Century" that caused them to reassess who they are and where they fit with Deaf Studies. Donna presented, and Rachel booked a foreign holiday
Translation, representation and the Deaf 'voice
In this article, we introduce a complex world of working with qualitative data in multiple languages, modalities and media. We share some of the theoretical considerations that influenced our decisions about when to translate, what and how. We also report some of the multiple possibilities available to the researcher when analysing data in a visual language - in this case, British Sign Language - sharing considerations in choosing one method over…
Cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of deixis am phantasma
Th is inquiry outlines Karl Bühle's three kinds of deixis, focusing particularly on his most advanced use – deixis am phantasma (deictics to refer to absent referents). This use is of primary import to the semiosis of index, given the centrality of the object and the interpretant in changing the function of the indexical sign in ontogeny. Employing deictic signs to refer to absent objects (some of which are mental) constitutes a catalyst from mor…
Peircean Index in the Naming Process
This analysis identifies semiotic differences between pronouns, proper names and count and mass nouns. It showcases the work of Peirce’s Index in the process of individuation, capitalizing upon the ontological and epistemological effects of employing pronouns (particularly demonstratives) as individuals, as opposed to their use as singulars. Peirce’s individual versus singular distinction highlights the contrast between unique separateness, on th…
Assessing L2 Lexical Versus Inflectional Accuracy Across Skill Levels
Piaget's system of spatial logic
Piaget's system of cognitive development is analyzed, namely, the semiosis of indexical representation and use. His notion of scheme is discussed, capitalizing on index as the most primary semiotic tool in early ontogeny; afterward, advances in spatial skills (topological and projective reasoning) are discussed in light of the foundational role of index in unfolding these spatial concepts. Finally, index's primary function in the onset and perpet…
The Work of Secondness as Habit in the Development of Early Schemes
This inquiry demonstrates the pivotal place of attentional phenomena in associating sign, Object, and Interpretant in Secondness. It identifies overt attentional habits (Indexes) and how they are modified/replaced in favor of more covert ones (symbols). The role of Peirce’s Object in securing attentional patterns to affairs in Secondness is highlighted. Alterations in use of attentional artifacts determine the kind and degree of reasoning. While …
Dialogue as Habit-Taking in Peirce’s Continuum
In this inquiry, I testify to the central place of signs in Peirce’s cosmology, and to the power of entertaining novel propositions (complementary and conflicting) through dialogue to foster the unity necessary to weld members of his continuum. Peirce’s concept of dialogue becomes the conduit to weld each member of the continuum. Peirce’s primary mover in bringing about this ‘welding’ is chance/habit in sign use itself. Although the self’s place …
Individuating in the dark
This inquiry first identifies signs whose representamen are inherently visuo-spatial (namely, Index) supplying rationale for dicisign status, then demonstrates how such results in difficulties without visual access. Virtually all of Peirce’s illustrations of Index surface in the visual modality: weathercock, clock hands (1903: EP 2: 274), pointing finger, smoke. Experimental findings from blind and sighted children suggest the less effective natu…
Peirce's Creative Hallucinations in the Ontogeny of Abductive Reasoning
This inquiry proposes that Peirce's ultimate concept of dreams, which can be sub-divided in seven different functions, supply the raw material for habit-change inherent in every plausible inference. With references to developmental literature, I propose that dreams represent an outlet whereby children rely upon vivid directional icons of events (virtual habits) in reconciling logical anomalies provoked by unexpected happenings. Accordingly, dream…
The work of Peirce’s Dicisign in representationalizing early deictic events
Directing attention to features in the here and now (via individual or joint ventures) is the single, most basic purpose for Dicisigns in human ontogeny. To effectively individuate in the stream of relational awareness, attentional devices must maximize notice of the dynamicity of primary graphical displays. This is a complex process, in that it requires codification of several interconnected but individualized spatial systems and event correlate…
Perfectivity in Peirce’s energetic interpretant
Esta investigação ilustra como o Interpretante energético de Peirce facilita a conscientização entre os usuários de signos. Peirce caracteriza o Interpretante energético/existencial como “empenho” e “esforço” (CP 4.536, MS 318). Por forçar a atenção e a progressão da ação, o Interpretante energético destaca as relações de signos atomísticos/pontuais de causa e efeito apresentando junções entre os eventos: começo, meio e fim. A Primeiridade e a Te…
Double consciousness to scaffold narrative skills
Determining the utility of auditory hallucinations (including imaginary friends) in developing logic is sorely under-investigated (Fernyhough, Charles. 2016. The voices within: The history and science of how we talk to ourselves . New York: Basic Books). The present account demonstrates how Peirce’s double consciousness fueled by his endoporeutic principle, provides insight into how abduction directs adopting arguments from one source while dismi…
États-Unis
2018 Peirce Society Essay Prize (2018) awarded (January, 2019) to Simon Levesque (Université du Québec à Montréal) for his essay entitled “Abduction as regulation: An Input from epigenetics.” 2019 March 2019: Annual Deely Memorial Lecture and Symposium at St. Vincent’s Archabbey and College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. This conference was the second occasion on which John Deely’s work was honored. St. Vincent’s Archives house many of Deely’s …
Logical and practical advantages of double consciousness
This account augments Peirce's concept of consciousness in two ways: 1) it highlights its double nature and 2) it explores how this two-sided consciousness advances modal logic. Double consciousness facilitates inferencing in that differences between old information and new information are noticed; logical conflicts between the two can then be explored and resolved expeditiously. This often natural but a forced need to consider new facts in light…
Primitives of Peirce’s concept of consciousness
This collection of articles by noted Peirce scholars stands at the frontiers of the discipline in expressing a primary issue which runs through Peirce’s semiotic, logic, and metaphysics – how his more mature semiotic is inextricably linked with questions of consciousness. As such, Peirce’s concept of consciousness is augmented in the following ways: intelligent agency, temporal contracts in 4E cognition, the privilege of the non-ego and the role …
The dialogic nature of double consciousness and double stimulation
The objective in this paper is to demonstrate the indispensability of Peirce’s double consciousness to foster abductive reasoning, so that internal/external dialogue inform the worthiness of hunches. These forms of dialogue establish a mental give-and-take forum in which novel meanings/effects are particularly highlighted and noticed. Such attentional shifts are compelled by surprising states of affairs within the beholder’s internal, interpretiv…
The element of surprise in Peirce's double consciousness paradigm
This account will demonstrate that the element of surprise is a fundamental device in establishing double consciousness regimes; it further shows how such dialogic paradigms foster abductive inferences by filtering out irrelevant percepts/antecedents. The account sets up Peirce's Pheme to be the primary device which shocks interpreters' sensibilities (CP 8.266, 1903) - starting them on a course to question conflicting principles between ego and n…
Peirce's vocation for consciousness
Psychology (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Cognitive science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Consciousness (6 works)