Human responsibility in the universe of global semiotics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4847088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Petrilli (0000-0002-3096-5415, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 2004 |
| Issue | 150 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/semi.2004.046 |
| OpenAlex | W1977357619 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
Biology and the social sciences, ethology and linguistics, psychology and the health sciences, their internal specializations – from genetics to medical semeiotics (sympomatology), psychoanalysis, gerontology and immunology – all find in Sebeok’s global semiotics the place of encounter and reciprocal exchange, as well as of systematization and unification. However, it is important to note that ‘systematization’ and ‘unification’ are not understood neopositivistically, in the static terms of an ‘encyclopedia’, whether in the form of the juxtaposition of knowledge and linguistic practices or of the reduction of knowledge to a single scientific field and its relative languages (neopositivistic physicalism). Global semiotics may be presented as a metascience concerned with all academic disciplines that are signrelated. It cannot be reduced to the status of philosophy of science, though of course as a science it is dialogically engaged with philosophy. Such a global view is possible for human beings in so far as we are semiotic animals: consequently, the question is what is our responsibility towards life and towards the universe in its globality
Epistemology · Human science · Linguistics · Philosophy of science · Semiosis · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Unification · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Italian Literature and Culture · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |