Floyd Merrell

Biographic Data

ID687927
NAMEFloyd Merrell
GIVEN NAMESFloyd
FAMILY NAMEMerrell
SIGNATUREMERRELL F
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Qué, por fin, es el signo peirceano

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESigna Revista de la Asociación…2022

  • La semiosis: Cascada de significación

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESigna Revista de la Asociación…2022

  • Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding

    Floyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellBOOKSensing Corporeally2016

  • Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

    Floyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellBOOKPeirce, Signs, and Meaning2016

  • Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes

    Floyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellBOOKSigns Grow2016

  • Conformity and resistance as cultural process in postmodern globalizing times

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2011References: 1

    Mind has played the starring role in the West's arts, humanities, and sciences, while an embodied notion of oneself, others, and the physical world has been customarily pushed under the rug. In view of radical new theories, methods and techniques that have emerged during the past century and a half, the notion of complementary, sympathetic co-participation , and its accompanying re-enchantment , merits attention. C. S. Peirce is at the crossroads…

  • Resemblance: From a complementarity point of view

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESign Systems Studies2010Cited by: 2References: 6

    Three premises set the stage for a Peirce based notion of resemblance, which, as Firstness, cannot be more than vaguely distinguished from Secondness and Thirdness. Inclusion of Firstness with, and within, Secondness and Thirdness, calls for a nonbivalent, nonlinear, context dependent mode of thinking characteristic of semiosis — that is, the process by which everything is always becoming something other than what it was becoming — and at the sam…

  • Sign, mind, time, space: Contradictory complementary coalescence

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2009References: 20

    Peirce's concept of the sign can be qualified in terms of inter-dependence, inter-relatedness, and inter-action, from icons to indices to symbols, from Firstness to Secondness to Thirdness, and with respect to sign generacy and degeneracy. This entails a contradictory complementary coalescence of signs, within a temporal-spatial flux and flow wherein everything is always becoming something other than what it was becoming. In this vein, the presen…

  • Is the semiosic sphere's center everywhere and its circumference nowhere

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2008References: 3

  • Borges e as categorias lógico-fenomenológicas de peirce

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd Μerrell et al.ARTICLEAlea Estudos Neolatinos2008References: 1

    Fragmentos de J.L.Borges servem, aqui, a uma "descrição semioticamente orientada", baseada na teoria das categorias de C.S.Peirce. Não se pretende fazer, portanto, o desenvolvimento de uma "semiótica da literatura" com foco no texto Borgeano. Ele serve-nos como exemplares para um tratamento das categorias fenomenológicas de Peirce

  • Toward a concept of pluralistic, inter-relational semiosis

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESign Systems Studies2007

    Brief consideration of (1) Peirce’s ‘logic of vagueness’, (2) his categories, and (3) the concepts of overdetermination and underdetermination, vagueness and generality, and inconsistency and incompleteness, along with (4) the abrogation of classical Aristotelian principles of logic, bear out the complexity of all relatively rich sign systems. Given this complexity, there is semiotic indeterminacy, which suggests sign limitations, and at the same…

  • Creation: Algorithmic, organicist, or emergent metaphorical process

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2006

    We are all to a greater or lesser degree creative, and metaphor making is one of the most common channels along which the creative process flows. Three general theories of metaphor — comparison, substitution, and interaction — and three theories of creativity — mechanicism, organicism, and contextualism or holism — surface in the following pages. Peirce's categories delineating the semiosic process, his concept of signs incessantly becoming other…

  • Semiosis and pragmatism: Toward a dynamic concept of meaning

    Open AccessJuliana Queiroz, João Queiroz et al.ARTICLESign Systems Studies2006Cited by: 6References: 4

    Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S. Peirce's pragmatic philosophy, may hold a key to perennial problems regarding meaning. Indeed, Peirce's thought should be deemed seminal when placed within the cognitive sciences, especially with respect to his concept of the sign. According to Peirce'…

  • Capoeira and Candomblé: Conformity and Resistance Through Afro-Brazilian Experience

    Floyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellBOOKCapoeira and Candomblé2005

  • Shouldn't We be Surprised that We are Not Surprised when We Should be Surprised

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2005

  • On signing translation

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2005

    1. Setting the stage Dinda Gorlée’s seminal On Translating Signs (Rodopi 2004, hereafter OTS ) explores translation of texts under the guise of ‘semio-translation.’ In her previous book, Semiotics and the Problem of Translation (1994, hereafter SPT ), Gorlée originally coined the term semiotranslation , which subsequently gained some notoriety in translation theory circles. She sees no need to give up the term, in fact including it in hyphenated …

  • Cultures, timespace, and the border of borders: Posing as a theory of semiosic processes

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2005

    This multifaceted essay emerges from a host of sources within diverse academic settings. Its central thesis is guided by physicist John A. Wheeler's thoughts on the quantum enigma. Wheeler concludes, following Niels Bohr, that we are co-participants within the universal self-organizing process. This notion merges with concepts from Peirce's process philosophy, Eastern thought, issues of topology, and border theory in cultural studies and social s…

  • Abduction: Between Subjectivity and Objectivity

    Open AccessJuliana Queiroz, João Queiroz et al.ARTICLESemiotica2005Cited by: 3

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  • Abduction is never alone

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2004Cited by: 1References: 14

  • Living signs in a rigidly patterned world: How healthy can it be

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESemiotica2003References: 7

  • Signs, chaos, life

    Open AccessFloyd MerrellARTICLESemiotica2002

  • Borgess realities and Peirces semiosis: Our world as factfablefiction

    Open AccessFloyd MerrellARTICLESemiotica2002

  • Distinctly human Umwelt

    Open AccessFloyd MerrellARTICLESemiotica2001

  • Unruly photons: Or, why cant colors march to the band of secondness

    Open AccessFloyd MerrellARTICLESemiotica2001

  • Lotman's semiosphere, Peirce's categories, and cultural forms of life

    Open AccessFloyd Merrell, Floyd ΜerrellARTICLESign Systems Studies2001Cited by: 3

    This paper brings Lotman's semiotic space to bear on Pierce's categories of the universe's processes. Particular manifestations of cultural semiotic space within the semiosphere are qualified as inconsistent and/or incomplete, depending upon the cultural context. Inconsistency and incompleteness are of the nature of vagueness and generality respectively, that are themselves qualified in terms of overdetermination and underdetermination, the first…