N Houser
Biographic Data
| ID | 56538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Houser |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Houser |
| SIGNATURE | HOUSER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2700-447X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thinking at the Edges
The field of semiotic studies requires borders to function as a discipline but as a living science it is essential that those borders be unheeded. When Charles Peirce opened the modern field of semiotic studies he understood that he was an intellectual pioneer preparing the way for future semioticians. Peirce’s decision to equate semiotics with logic would likely seem bizarre to most professional logicians today yet his decision followed naturall…
Semiotics and Philosophy
Semiotics has not been warmly welcomed as an area of research concentration within philosophy, especially not within philosophy in the English empirical tradition. But when we consider that much of the focus of semiotic research is signification, reference, and representation, it seems evident that semiotic questions are as old as reflective thought itself. A look at how these questions have been treated throughout the history of philosophy sugge…
Peirce on Practical Reasoning
It is generally agreed that what distinguishes practical reasoning from more thoughtful reasoning is that practical reasoning properly results in action rather than in conceptual conclusions. There is much disagreement, however, about how appropriate actions follow from practical reasoning and it is commonly supposed that the connection between reasoning and action can neither be truly inferential nor strictly causal. Peirce appears to challenge …
Being in the world
This essay addresses a question raised by Helmut Pape: “What logical, semiotical and mental structure does our consciousness have to have in order to establish the proper link between perception, thought and propositional content expressed by indicators?” The answer, it is proposed, is found in Peirce’s Existential Graphs (EG). First, EG is, itself, a model of cognition that provides the formal structure required for such a consciousness. Second,…
Peirce's Post-Jamesian Pragmatism
It is commonly supposed that the pragmatisms of Peirce and James are fundamentally opposed; this view is supported by the fact that in 1905 Peirce deliberately chose a new name for his original doctrine. Yet Peirce and James were not only life-long friends but to a surprising extent were life-long collaborators. It is true that their approaches to philosophy were very different, reflecting their distinct personalities, with James exhibiting a plu…
The church of pragmatism
In his Four ages , John Deely points to Peirce's 1905 Monist article, "What is pragmatism," as a key text in the history of human intellectual development. It was there that Peirce famously kissed his child (the word "pragmatism") good-bye and renamed his great contribution to philosophy "pragmaticism," a word "ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers." According to Deely, what Peirce did amounted to "disowning the most famous American development …
The Scent of Truth
Peirce in the 21st Century
s philosophy finds its footing in this new millennium, there is some reason to suppose that Peirce will play a larger role in setting its course than anyone would have expected during most of the half-century that followed the 1951 publication of Quines "Two Dogmas of Empiricism." There are many reasons ~Ρφ Î ̄Î3Γΰ \Î1⁄2\ tnP for this welcome prospect, not least of which is the rising profile of pragmatism world- O 7 c¿. (^pyifai/v·*·, wide—even …
Peirce's Post-Jamesian Pragmatism
It is commonly supposed that the pragmatisms of Peirce and James are fundamentally opposed; this view is supported by the fact that in 1905 Peirce deliberately chose a new name for his original doctrine. Yet Peirce and James were not only life-long friends but to a surprising extent were life-long collaborators. It is true that their approaches to philosophy were very different, reflecting their distinct personalities, with James exhibiting a plu…
Being in the world
This essay addresses a question raised by Helmut Pape: “What logical, semiotical and mental structure does our consciousness have to have in order to establish the proper link between perception, thought and propositional content expressed by indicators?” The answer, it is proposed, is found in Peirce’s Existential Graphs (EG). First, EG is, itself, a model of cognition that provides the formal structure required for such a consciousness. Second,…
Peirce in the 21st Century
s philosophy finds its footing in this new millennium, there is some reason to suppose that Peirce will play a larger role in setting its course than anyone would have expected during most of the half-century that followed the 1951 publication of Quines "Two Dogmas of Empiricism." There are many reasons ~Ρφ Î ̄Î3Γΰ \Î1⁄2\ tnP for this welcome prospect, not least of which is the rising profile of pragmatism world- O 7 c¿. (^pyifai/v·*·, wide—even …
The Scent of Truth
Peirce in the 21st Century
s philosophy finds its footing in this new millennium, there is some reason to suppose that Peirce will play a larger role in setting its course than anyone would have expected during most of the half-century that followed the 1951 publication of Quines "Two Dogmas of Empiricism." There are many reasons ~Ρφ Î ̄Î3Γΰ \Î1⁄2\ tnP for this welcome prospect, not least of which is the rising profile of pragmatism world- O 7 c¿. (^pyifai/v·*·, wide—even …
The church of pragmatism
In his Four ages , John Deely points to Peirce's 1905 Monist article, "What is pragmatism," as a key text in the history of human intellectual development. It was there that Peirce famously kissed his child (the word "pragmatism") good-bye and renamed his great contribution to philosophy "pragmaticism," a word "ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers." According to Deely, what Peirce did amounted to "disowning the most famous American development …
Peirce's Post-Jamesian Pragmatism
It is commonly supposed that the pragmatisms of Peirce and James are fundamentally opposed; this view is supported by the fact that in 1905 Peirce deliberately chose a new name for his original doctrine. Yet Peirce and James were not only life-long friends but to a surprising extent were life-long collaborators. It is true that their approaches to philosophy were very different, reflecting their distinct personalities, with James exhibiting a plu…
Being in the world
This essay addresses a question raised by Helmut Pape: “What logical, semiotical and mental structure does our consciousness have to have in order to establish the proper link between perception, thought and propositional content expressed by indicators?” The answer, it is proposed, is found in Peirce’s Existential Graphs (EG). First, EG is, itself, a model of cognition that provides the formal structure required for such a consciousness. Second,…
Thinking at the Edges
The field of semiotic studies requires borders to function as a discipline but as a living science it is essential that those borders be unheeded. When Charles Peirce opened the modern field of semiotic studies he understood that he was an intellectual pioneer preparing the way for future semioticians. Peirce’s decision to equate semiotics with logic would likely seem bizarre to most professional logicians today yet his decision followed naturall…
Semiotics and Philosophy
Semiotics has not been warmly welcomed as an area of research concentration within philosophy, especially not within philosophy in the English empirical tradition. But when we consider that much of the focus of semiotic research is signification, reference, and representation, it seems evident that semiotic questions are as old as reflective thought itself. A look at how these questions have been treated throughout the history of philosophy sugge…
Peirce on Practical Reasoning
It is generally agreed that what distinguishes practical reasoning from more thoughtful reasoning is that practical reasoning properly results in action rather than in conceptual conclusions. There is much disagreement, however, about how appropriate actions follow from practical reasoning and it is commonly supposed that the connection between reasoning and action can neither be truly inferential nor strictly causal. Peirce appears to challenge …
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