Thanks Gary. I have also just signed a contract with Princeton University Press to write a large intellectual biography of Peirce, with the working title “American Aristotle: The Life and Mind of C.S. Peirce”, which I hope to complete in 2022.
Dan Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2019, at 14:28, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dan, List, > > It's nice to have you drop in to peirce-l as you occasionally have in recent > years and, of course, I'm especially delighted that you find some of the > discussions here useful and illuminating. Your current work sounds most > interesting, so please let us know when these and, of course, any > Peirce-related papers are available. > > The Wikipedia entry on you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Everett > also mentions that you are working on a book, "Peircean Linguistics: A > Chapter in the History of Empiricist Thought." I'm reasonably certain that I > am hardly the only person in this forum who will be quite interested in > reading it when it's available. > > You wrote: > DE: Peirce used the term Universal Grammar in 1865 and his version of UG > (like Chomsky’s nearly a century later) had recursion. The difference is that > Peirce’s recursion was semantic (interpretants of interpretants) whereas > Chomsky’s is syntactic. Peirce’s recursion works better for understanding a > number of modern languages, as well as language evolution. . . > > That is most intriguing given your views, as I very vaguely understand them, > on universal grammar (such as your opposing Chomsky's asserting the > universality of recursion). I haven't much read up on linguistics in recent > years with one exception: A friend, colleague, and occasional contributor to > the list, Michael Shapiro, also a Peircean linguist, has found Chomsky's > version of UG problematic, and we've occasionally discussed it, I've read > some of his papers, heard him lecture, etc. on his views. It would, > obviously, be great to get a discussion going here on Peircean linguistics, > your very different view of UG from Chomsky's, comparing notes with Michael, > etc. > > Whether or not that is feasible for you at present, you might take a look at > some of Michael's papers posted on the Arisbe site. See: > http://www.iupui.edu/~arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/ABOUTCSP.HTM#Shapiro.Michael > > Of course, we'd be delighted to post or link to any Peirce-related papers > you've written at Arisbe. > > Best, > > Gary (writing as list moderator and co-manager of Arisbe with Ben Udell) > > > Gary Richmond > Philosophy and Critical Thinking > Communication Studies > LaGuardia College of the City University of New York > > > > >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 9:15 AM Dan Everett <[email protected]> wrote: >> This has been a useful discussion (not that it should end of course). >> >> Larry Barham (University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology) and I have >> finished a long paper (just submitted) on the evidence that lower >> Paleolithic tools manufactured by Homo Erectus were simultaneously icons, >> indexes, and symbols. We then argue that if that is correct they had >> language (since syntax is itself a combination of icon, index, and symbol + >> a varied range of computational properties). >> >> Peirce used the term Universal Grammar in 1865 and his version of UG (like >> Chomsky’s nearly a century later) had recursion. The difference is that >> Peirce’s recursion was semantic (interpretants of interpretants) whereas >> Chomsky’s is syntactic. Peirce’s recursion works better for understanding a >> number of modern languages, as well as language evolution (I and a co-author >> point this out in a review article to appear in Language). >> >> Understanding the various nuances of his work is therefore vital to grasping >> its contemporary significance (as readers here know) - in some ways >> especially for understanding language and its evolution - and I am grateful >> to this list for continuing to host such illuminating discussions. >> >> Dan >> > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] > . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] > with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > > > >
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