Robert E Innis
Biographic Data
| ID | 484854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Innis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Innis |
| SIGNATURE | INNIS R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On the lived truths of atmospheres
Este artigo começa com uma afirmação de Dewey que retirada do contexto consiste no maior desastre que o pensamento filosófico pode incorrer. Ela explora o valor heurístico da noção de Dewey de um contexto não apenas para a filosofia, mas para o pensamento e a vida como um todo. Contextos possuem poder existencial profundo tanto que os temos encarnados em nós mesmos. Contextos funcionam como panos de fundo, conforme determinam embasamentos, influe…
Peirce and Dewey think about art
My goal in this essay is not to investigate the sources, systematic applications, extensions, or coherence of Peirce's admittedly fragmentary remarks on aesthetics, tasks that have been undertaken by others. Rather, I want, with both historical and systematic intent, to draw attention to some important links between Dewey's aesthetic use of Peirce's theory of quality and the remarkable, albeit not thematic, reconstitution in Dewey's explicitly ex…
The Lost Trail of Dewey
Umberto Eco’s philosophical project, which culminates in the development of a systematic and philosophically relevant semiotics, has a perplexing and problematic debt to and link with pragmatism in its many forms. Indeed, his apparent relation to pragmatism as such is in fact quite tangential if we ignore the pivotal role of Peirce in defining and supporting Eco’s explicit semiotic turn. But Eco claimed that John Dewey’s Art as Experience, the fo…
Between philosophy and cultural psychology
Cultural psychology has multiple points of intersection with some of the central themes and issues of philosophy, especially a philosophy that is not self-absorbed with problems purely of its own making or over which it claims exclusive rights even if they clearly need multiple analytical approaches. The “problems of philosophy” should be, and are, our problems, vitally important issues embedded in what John Dewey called “problematic situations” …
Frames of enquiry
Philosophy, art-based research and the various forms of arts therapy have deep affinities. Some aspects of this affinity are to be found in ideas developed by such very different thinkers as John Dewey, Michael Polanyi, and Susanne Langer. Dewey’s reflections on the matrices of enquiry, Polanyi’s on the nature of tacit integrations, and Langer’s on the heuristic fertility of images allow us to develop conceptual tools for understanding constituti…
Commentary
The expression of emotion takes many forms and their linguistic expression is one of the key ways they are articulated. The study of the semantic fields in which the expression of emotion takes place is in need of an appropriate methodology and a sufficiently broad set of examples. Anna Gladkova’s attempt to use the methodology of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to explore the semantics of certain emotion terms in English and Russian is examined an…
Minding Feeling
Poles of Meaning
The making of the literary symbol
Why, in light of the multiple approaches to literature that mark the various semiotic traditions and their complex intertwinings, would one turn to Susanne Langer's seemingly ‘marginal’ or idiosyncratic semiotic theory of art for conceptual resources? I argue that the conceptual core of the answer is found in Langer's notion of a ‘symbol of feeling,’ which is connected with her notion of ‘semblance,’ the imaginal power of art symbols to construct…
The Signs of Interpretation
Designed as a reflection on and extension of Tine K. Jensen's Peirce-based ‘The Interpretation of Signs of Child Sexual Abuse’, this article brings out features of the processes and structures of interpretation that are not foregrounded in her article: abduction as hypothesis formation and pivotal semiosic act; the consequent intimate connection, indeed continuities, between ‘high-level’ interpretation and ‘lower-level’ perception; the nature of …
The Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments
Roy Rappaport’s attempted semiotic schematization of the logic of ritual, relying on analytical tools from C. S. Peirce’s philosophical semiotics, is examined in terms of both its conceptual coherence and its relation to other schematizations of ritual, especially Michael Polanyi’s thematization of a ‘tacit logic’ of meaning-making. The Peircean foregrounding of sign types (icons, indices, symbols) is compared to Polanyi’s delineation of an irred…
The analytic telos of semiotic
La semiosi e l'abduzione
Meaning and Context
Technics and the Bias of Perception
Karl Buhler
Karl Bühler Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory
On Linguistic Money
Intersections
The Quest for Certain Communication
Listening and Voice
Short reviews
The Way of Discovery
Husserl
Experimental Phenomenology
Meaning and Context
Peirce and Dewey think about art
My goal in this essay is not to investigate the sources, systematic applications, extensions, or coherence of Peirce's admittedly fragmentary remarks on aesthetics, tasks that have been undertaken by others. Rather, I want, with both historical and systematic intent, to draw attention to some important links between Dewey's aesthetic use of Peirce's theory of quality and the remarkable, albeit not thematic, reconstitution in Dewey's explicitly ex…
Minding Feeling
The Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments
Roy Rappaport’s attempted semiotic schematization of the logic of ritual, relying on analytical tools from C. S. Peirce’s philosophical semiotics, is examined in terms of both its conceptual coherence and its relation to other schematizations of ritual, especially Michael Polanyi’s thematization of a ‘tacit logic’ of meaning-making. The Peircean foregrounding of sign types (icons, indices, symbols) is compared to Polanyi’s delineation of an irred…
The Lost Trail of Dewey
Umberto Eco’s philosophical project, which culminates in the development of a systematic and philosophically relevant semiotics, has a perplexing and problematic debt to and link with pragmatism in its many forms. Indeed, his apparent relation to pragmatism as such is in fact quite tangential if we ignore the pivotal role of Peirce in defining and supporting Eco’s explicit semiotic turn. But Eco claimed that John Dewey’s Art as Experience, the fo…
The making of the literary symbol
Why, in light of the multiple approaches to literature that mark the various semiotic traditions and their complex intertwinings, would one turn to Susanne Langer's seemingly ‘marginal’ or idiosyncratic semiotic theory of art for conceptual resources? I argue that the conceptual core of the answer is found in Langer's notion of a ‘symbol of feeling,’ which is connected with her notion of ‘semblance,’ the imaginal power of art symbols to construct…
Meaning. Michael Polanyi , Harry Prosch
Short reviews
The Way of Discovery
Husserl
Experimental Phenomenology
On Linguistic Money
Intersections
The Quest for Certain Communication
Listening and Voice
Karl Bühler Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory
Karl Buhler
Technics and the Bias of Perception
Meaning and Context
La semiosi e l'abduzione
The analytic telos of semiotic
The Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments
Roy Rappaport’s attempted semiotic schematization of the logic of ritual, relying on analytical tools from C. S. Peirce’s philosophical semiotics, is examined in terms of both its conceptual coherence and its relation to other schematizations of ritual, especially Michael Polanyi’s thematization of a ‘tacit logic’ of meaning-making. The Peircean foregrounding of sign types (icons, indices, symbols) is compared to Polanyi’s delineation of an irred…
The Signs of Interpretation
Designed as a reflection on and extension of Tine K. Jensen's Peirce-based ‘The Interpretation of Signs of Child Sexual Abuse’, this article brings out features of the processes and structures of interpretation that are not foregrounded in her article: abduction as hypothesis formation and pivotal semiosic act; the consequent intimate connection, indeed continuities, between ‘high-level’ interpretation and ‘lower-level’ perception; the nature of …
The making of the literary symbol
Why, in light of the multiple approaches to literature that mark the various semiotic traditions and their complex intertwinings, would one turn to Susanne Langer's seemingly ‘marginal’ or idiosyncratic semiotic theory of art for conceptual resources? I argue that the conceptual core of the answer is found in Langer's notion of a ‘symbol of feeling,’ which is connected with her notion of ‘semblance,’ the imaginal power of art symbols to construct…
Poles of Meaning
Commentary
The expression of emotion takes many forms and their linguistic expression is one of the key ways they are articulated. The study of the semantic fields in which the expression of emotion takes place is in need of an appropriate methodology and a sufficiently broad set of examples. Anna Gladkova’s attempt to use the methodology of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to explore the semantics of certain emotion terms in English and Russian is examined an…
Minding Feeling
Frames of enquiry
Philosophy, art-based research and the various forms of arts therapy have deep affinities. Some aspects of this affinity are to be found in ideas developed by such very different thinkers as John Dewey, Michael Polanyi, and Susanne Langer. Dewey’s reflections on the matrices of enquiry, Polanyi’s on the nature of tacit integrations, and Langer’s on the heuristic fertility of images allow us to develop conceptual tools for understanding constituti…
Between philosophy and cultural psychology
Cultural psychology has multiple points of intersection with some of the central themes and issues of philosophy, especially a philosophy that is not self-absorbed with problems purely of its own making or over which it claims exclusive rights even if they clearly need multiple analytical approaches. The “problems of philosophy” should be, and are, our problems, vitally important issues embedded in what John Dewey called “problematic situations” …
The Lost Trail of Dewey
Umberto Eco’s philosophical project, which culminates in the development of a systematic and philosophically relevant semiotics, has a perplexing and problematic debt to and link with pragmatism in its many forms. Indeed, his apparent relation to pragmatism as such is in fact quite tangential if we ignore the pivotal role of Peirce in defining and supporting Eco’s explicit semiotic turn. But Eco claimed that John Dewey’s Art as Experience, the fo…
Peirce and Dewey think about art
My goal in this essay is not to investigate the sources, systematic applications, extensions, or coherence of Peirce's admittedly fragmentary remarks on aesthetics, tasks that have been undertaken by others. Rather, I want, with both historical and systematic intent, to draw attention to some important links between Dewey's aesthetic use of Peirce's theory of quality and the remarkable, albeit not thematic, reconstitution in Dewey's explicitly ex…
Philosophy (25 works) · Epistemology (22 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Semiotics (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)