Tony Jappy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5656917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Jappy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Jappy |
| SIGNATURE | JAPPY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Perpignan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2323-6852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The medium, the gate of perception and how we recognize signs
Over the years within his logic Peirce proposed many analogous formal definitions of the sign as an element of a triadic relation associating it with an object and an interpretant. However, in 1904, he expanded this triad to a system of six relates, while in 1906, he referred in draft letters and manuscripts to the sign as a medium for the communication of a form. Meanwhile, in the final lecture on pragmatism of 1903, he had claimed that the elem…
Pragmatism, logic, and manuscript R318
Whereas it is generally held that Peirce’s logic contributed largely to a proof of his pragmatism, particularly in the 1907 manuscript R318, the paper adopts an alternative approach and posits that after 1903, Peirce’s conception of the sign and the way it functions evolved significantly in the period leading to and including the various versions of this never-to-be-published article which set out his conception of pragmatism in 1907. The paper s…
The cautionary tale of Peirce’s logical interpretant
In 1904, Peirce described to Lady Welby a six-division typology composed of the sign, two objects, and a trio of interpretants for which he subsequently proposed numerous denominations. Of the three, the final interpretant was particularly problematic, and over the years Peirce experimented with at least eight different identifying terms such as “final,” “rational,” “normal,” “eventual,” etc. One group of interpretants is especially interesting a…
Biosemiotics and Peirce
Peirce’s final statements on the sign were consigned in various ways over a hundred years ago as a form of logic, a branch of the science of enquiry based upon observation. This means inevitably that some parts of the theory will have been contested or considered superseded by more recent pronouncements on cognitive activity in general, both within and without the field of semiotics. Two such areas that have been host to innovative developments c…
Peircean semiosis as the process for the making of meaning
One domain in which one would expect to find enlightenment concerning the nature of meaning is the pragmatism of C. S. Peirce and, in particular, the various versions of the pragmatic maxim that he refined over the years. For the maxim was, he claimed in a late text, really nothing more than a sort of protocol for determining the meaning of “hard words.” However, at the same time, Peirce saw the communication of meaning as a process that necessar…
Peirce’s Other Ten-Class Typology
In the manuscript of the 1903 Syllabus intended to accompany his Lowell lectures on logic, Peirce developed what is one of his best-known semiotic constructions, namely a ten-class, three-division typology of signs. The nine subdivisions in the typology define, amongst others, the icon-index-symbol division much used in visual semiotics and even in competing theories of the sign, and were based upon the three phenomenological categories as Peirce…
Hypoiconicity, Semiosis and Peirce’s Immediate Object
Between 1865 and 1909 Peirce established over a dozen different sign taxonomies, most of which were established using his system of universal categories, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness. Of these various systems, that of late 1903 with its universally-known iconindex-symbol division is the one most employed in the analysis of verbal and pictorial signs, as within this division the icon constitutes the sign's purely formal, qualitative mode of…
From phenomenology to ontology in Peirce’s typologies
Establishing the correct order of trichotomies in Peirce’s projected ten-division typology of 1908 has been a preoccupation of Peirce scholars since at least 1945. Most seem to assume that the same phenomenological framework was adopted by Peirce in all his classification systems from 1903 to 1908 and that these ten divisions form a homogeneous set. The paper examines the status of typologies in Peirce’s semiotics and, by comparing two hexads of …
Intentional Signs From a Peircean Perspective
It can safely be assumed that with its well-known icon-index-symbol trichotomy, Peirce's 1903 ten-class typology can adequately analyze still images, photographs and films. Moreover, given the implication principle whereby a symbol can involve an index and an index an icon, it follows that any symbolic element can, by transitivity, involve iconic elements, making it possible within this system to accommodate complex forms of signification. Its ph…
Speculative rhetoric, methodeutic, and Peirce’s hexadic sign-systems
By 1903 Peirce had defined logic broadly as a “Philosophy of Representation,” an over-arching, organically organized cenoscopic science formed of speculative grammar, critic, and speculative rhetoric. Corresponding respectively to the three trichotomies of the sign that he had established at this time, the three branches of the grand logic concerned definitions of the sign, inquiry into the relation between sign and object and, finally, inquiry i…
The Two-Way Interpretation Process in Peirce’s Late Semiotics
On his own admission Peirce's priority in his work in semiotics concerned the identification of all possible signs, and it is clearly for this reason that of the two typologies announced in the letter to Lady Welby of 23 December 1908-one yielding twenty-eight classes and the other sixty-sixit was the latter that he found the more interesting, to the complete neglect of the former. And yet contributing to the originality of this particular typolo…
‘It Really Represents…’
This paper compares the manner in which C. S. Peirce's late semiotic theory deals with the problems posed by the dynamic object and the interpretation of signs with that of the earlier, better-known system of 1903. It shows how non-specialist interpreters of signs are often led to suggest that there is more to, for example, a painting than the summation of the lines, forms and colours to be found on the canvas, in other words, to suggest that the…
A Peircean approach to pictorial documents
The paper summarizes six chapters of a book introducing Peircean visual semiotics to non-specialists. The book has an epistemological bent, and is intended as an empiricist response to Saussurean rationalism, locked away as it is in the universe of Thirdness. Inevitably, in reducing two hundred and thirty pages to twenty-four, the paper has been shorn of the majority of the original examples, quotations and summaries, the relations between the va…
Regards sur le poème muet
Il y a peu un iconologue américain de renom nous promettait un "tournant pictural" alors que l'un de ses collaborateurs, médiologue français de mauvais augure, nous annonçait déjà la mort de l'image. Illustration saisissante du statut épistémologique imprécis de l'image dans notre culture censément "visuelle" et du trop-plein d'images qu'on lui reproche de véhiculer. C'est dans le contexte confus de ce prétendu excès de visuel qui affligerait not…
Biosemiotics and Peirce
Peirce’s final statements on the sign were consigned in various ways over a hundred years ago as a form of logic, a branch of the science of enquiry based upon observation. This means inevitably that some parts of the theory will have been contested or considered superseded by more recent pronouncements on cognitive activity in general, both within and without the field of semiotics. Two such areas that have been host to innovative developments c…
A Peircean approach to pictorial documents
The paper summarizes six chapters of a book introducing Peircean visual semiotics to non-specialists. The book has an epistemological bent, and is intended as an empiricist response to Saussurean rationalism, locked away as it is in the universe of Thirdness. Inevitably, in reducing two hundred and thirty pages to twenty-four, the paper has been shorn of the majority of the original examples, quotations and summaries, the relations between the va…
Regards sur le poème muet
Il y a peu un iconologue américain de renom nous promettait un "tournant pictural" alors que l'un de ses collaborateurs, médiologue français de mauvais augure, nous annonçait déjà la mort de l'image. Illustration saisissante du statut épistémologique imprécis de l'image dans notre culture censément "visuelle" et du trop-plein d'images qu'on lui reproche de véhiculer. C'est dans le contexte confus de ce prétendu excès de visuel qui affligerait not…
A Peircean approach to pictorial documents
The paper summarizes six chapters of a book introducing Peircean visual semiotics to non-specialists. The book has an epistemological bent, and is intended as an empiricist response to Saussurean rationalism, locked away as it is in the universe of Thirdness. Inevitably, in reducing two hundred and thirty pages to twenty-four, the paper has been shorn of the majority of the original examples, quotations and summaries, the relations between the va…
‘It Really Represents…’
This paper compares the manner in which C. S. Peirce's late semiotic theory deals with the problems posed by the dynamic object and the interpretation of signs with that of the earlier, better-known system of 1903. It shows how non-specialist interpreters of signs are often led to suggest that there is more to, for example, a painting than the summation of the lines, forms and colours to be found on the canvas, in other words, to suggest that the…
The Two-Way Interpretation Process in Peirce’s Late Semiotics
On his own admission Peirce's priority in his work in semiotics concerned the identification of all possible signs, and it is clearly for this reason that of the two typologies announced in the letter to Lady Welby of 23 December 1908-one yielding twenty-eight classes and the other sixty-sixit was the latter that he found the more interesting, to the complete neglect of the former. And yet contributing to the originality of this particular typolo…
Intentional Signs From a Peircean Perspective
It can safely be assumed that with its well-known icon-index-symbol trichotomy, Peirce's 1903 ten-class typology can adequately analyze still images, photographs and films. Moreover, given the implication principle whereby a symbol can involve an index and an index an icon, it follows that any symbolic element can, by transitivity, involve iconic elements, making it possible within this system to accommodate complex forms of signification. Its ph…
Speculative rhetoric, methodeutic, and Peirce’s hexadic sign-systems
By 1903 Peirce had defined logic broadly as a “Philosophy of Representation,” an over-arching, organically organized cenoscopic science formed of speculative grammar, critic, and speculative rhetoric. Corresponding respectively to the three trichotomies of the sign that he had established at this time, the three branches of the grand logic concerned definitions of the sign, inquiry into the relation between sign and object and, finally, inquiry i…
Hypoiconicity, Semiosis and Peirce’s Immediate Object
Between 1865 and 1909 Peirce established over a dozen different sign taxonomies, most of which were established using his system of universal categories, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness. Of these various systems, that of late 1903 with its universally-known iconindex-symbol division is the one most employed in the analysis of verbal and pictorial signs, as within this division the icon constitutes the sign's purely formal, qualitative mode of…
From phenomenology to ontology in Peirce’s typologies
Establishing the correct order of trichotomies in Peirce’s projected ten-division typology of 1908 has been a preoccupation of Peirce scholars since at least 1945. Most seem to assume that the same phenomenological framework was adopted by Peirce in all his classification systems from 1903 to 1908 and that these ten divisions form a homogeneous set. The paper examines the status of typologies in Peirce’s semiotics and, by comparing two hexads of …
Peirce’s Other Ten-Class Typology
In the manuscript of the 1903 Syllabus intended to accompany his Lowell lectures on logic, Peirce developed what is one of his best-known semiotic constructions, namely a ten-class, three-division typology of signs. The nine subdivisions in the typology define, amongst others, the icon-index-symbol division much used in visual semiotics and even in competing theories of the sign, and were based upon the three phenomenological categories as Peirce…
Peircean semiosis as the process for the making of meaning
One domain in which one would expect to find enlightenment concerning the nature of meaning is the pragmatism of C. S. Peirce and, in particular, the various versions of the pragmatic maxim that he refined over the years. For the maxim was, he claimed in a late text, really nothing more than a sort of protocol for determining the meaning of “hard words.” However, at the same time, Peirce saw the communication of meaning as a process that necessar…
Biosemiotics and Peirce
Peirce’s final statements on the sign were consigned in various ways over a hundred years ago as a form of logic, a branch of the science of enquiry based upon observation. This means inevitably that some parts of the theory will have been contested or considered superseded by more recent pronouncements on cognitive activity in general, both within and without the field of semiotics. Two such areas that have been host to innovative developments c…
Pragmatism, logic, and manuscript R318
Whereas it is generally held that Peirce’s logic contributed largely to a proof of his pragmatism, particularly in the 1907 manuscript R318, the paper adopts an alternative approach and posits that after 1903, Peirce’s conception of the sign and the way it functions evolved significantly in the period leading to and including the various versions of this never-to-be-published article which set out his conception of pragmatism in 1907. The paper s…
The cautionary tale of Peirce’s logical interpretant
In 1904, Peirce described to Lady Welby a six-division typology composed of the sign, two objects, and a trio of interpretants for which he subsequently proposed numerous denominations. Of the three, the final interpretant was particularly problematic, and over the years Peirce experimented with at least eight different identifying terms such as “final,” “rational,” “normal,” “eventual,” etc. One group of interpretants is especially interesting a…
The medium, the gate of perception and how we recognize signs
Over the years within his logic Peirce proposed many analogous formal definitions of the sign as an element of a triadic relation associating it with an object and an interpretant. However, in 1904, he expanded this triad to a system of six relates, while in 1906, he referred in draft letters and manuscripts to the sign as a medium for the communication of a form. Meanwhile, in the final lecture on pragmatism of 1903, he had claimed that the elem…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Semiotics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Media, Communication, and Education (4 works) · Object (grammar (4 works)