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Dear Vinicius:
Good to hear that your dissertation is being
completed in time for you to take advantage of the conference which is
occurring a few days before that so that Nathan and Tom could
be present for your defense. For personal reasons, I had to decline Lucia's
invitation to appear at the conference, as one of the invited speakers,
along with Nathan, Tom, and Vincent as well, an occasion which I deeply
regret missing out on for several reasons, and to learn of the further missed
opportunity of attending the discussion at your defense makes it all the more
regretful. But I'll be looking forward to reading your
dissertation myself as soon as you can make it generally available.
(I won't trouble you for further information on what conclusions you arrived at
until after the defense, but the topic has been under discussion recently
on the list and I am sure there are a number of people who will want to raise
some questions with you about what you came up with when you have the time free
to be responsive to that.)
But as I say this it occurs to me that
no announcement of that conference was
ever made on the list, and I should perhaps provide some context for
this.
The conference referred to
was described by Lucia Santaella, who arranged it, as "an
International Conference on Consciousness,
Mind, and Thought in Peirce to be held in August 24-25, 2006, during which
the Center of Peirce Studies at Sao Paulo
Catholic University will be transformed into an International Center."
Lucia is the creator of the Center, which originates as a program at that
university which has been developed under her leadership for many years now
and is largely (though by no means exclusively) responsible for a
remarkably vital and continually growing and burgeoning tradition of Peirce-related research and scholarship whose
equal is difficult to find anywhere in the world. The occasion is thus a
celebrational one, and anyone interested in matters Peircean who is in position
to be in attendance in Sao Paulo during this period is certain to find it
worth while to do so.
Joe Ransdell
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:11
AM
Subject: [peirce-l] Doctoral
Defense
Dear list members,
particularly Brazilians or whoever happens to be
in Brazil by the end of August.
I would like to invite you to the public defense
of my doctoral dissertation on Peirce¨s classification of signs. Lucia
Santaella, Nathan Houser and Thomas Short are part of the committee. Vincent
Colapientro and Winfried Noth will be attending to it too. I think it will be
a great opportunitie to discuss some hot topics of Peirce¨s logic and
semiotic, as well as to hear leading scholars on the field. Needless to say
that I will try to put an English version of it available online as soon as
possible.
Best,
Vinicius
Romanini
The
School of Communication and Arts (ECA) of the University of S¨o Paulo (USP) is
pleased to invite you to the public defense of the doctoral dissertation of
Vin¨cius Romanini entitled
Minute
Semeiotic
Speculations
on the Grammar of Signs and Communication based on the work of Charles S.
Peirce
Committee:
Lucia
Santaella (Pontifical
Catholic University)
Mayra
Rodrigues Gomes (University of S¨o Paulo)
Dulcilia
Helena Buitoni (University of S¨o Paulo)
Nathan
Houser (Indiana University)
Thomas
Short (Independent Scholar)
Abstract:
The work is dedicated to the branch of Semiotic
that Charles S. Peirce called Speculative Grammar: the study of the formal
conditions that enable a Sign to function as such, the survey of all possible
types of Signs and their ordered classification. The Speculative Grammar is
the first branch of Semiotic, Logic is the second and Communication is its
third one. A fruitful semiotic treatment of the Communication depends,
therefore, on that the Grammar and Logic are sufficiently developed. This was
the motivation of this work. After an introduction about Peirce and the
development of his Theory of Signs, we present a proposal for a generation of
66 Classes of Signs and make some considerations on how this table could help
to solve some problems of Logic and to construct of a formally semiotic Theory
of Communication.
The
defense will happen on Monday
August 28, at 2:00 pm at the
Department of Journalism of the School of Communication and Arts (ECA) on the
University of Sao Paulo (USP) campus, Av. Prof. Lúcio Martins
Rodrigues, 443, Cidade
Universitária, S¨o Paulo, Brazil. There
will be simultaneous translation English/Portuguese.
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