Adrian, thanks very much for the link to Deacon’s blog. (Forgive the delay in my thanks, i’ve been distracted.) Every now and then i look around on the Internet for anything of his but somehow i’ve never come across this blog before. As to whether he’d be willing to join peirce-l, i don’t know; i attended a talk of his in 2003 at an IRAS conference (before i’d begun reading Peirce in earnest myself), and at that time he was very selective about his email contacts and hard to find on the Internet. Maybe he’s more open to that sort of thing now – though i notice he hasn’t posted anything on the Teleodynamics blog since 2008.
The article you pointed to is a revised version of one written in 1976, and while it shows an extensive acquaintance with Peirce back then, it doesn’t really answer the question of why he doesn’t use the Peircean phaneroscopic “categories” in his recent book (or in any of his work since 1997 that i’ve seen). It would be an interesting question in the light of what he says in that older article. I do hope somebody can contact and invite him! Gary F. From: C S Peirce discussion list [mailto:PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Ivakhiv Sent: March-25-12 5:53 PM To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: [peirce-l] Deacon & Peirce [was "re: Deacon's incompleteness and Peirce's infinity"] This is just an aside to Gary F.'s parenthetical comment about Terrence Deacon's knowledge of Peirce: "In other words, he argues for the reality of Thirdness without calling it that – indeed without using Peirce's phaneroscopic categories at all. (Personally i doubt that he is familiar enough with them to use them fluently, but maybe he decided not to use them for some reason.)" Deacon has, apparently, been a lifelong student of Peirce's work. One of his articles online, accessible from his Teleodynamics blog, is a paper from 1976 entitled "Semiotics and Cybernetics: The Relevance of C. S. Peirce", which includes an extensive discussion of Peirce's phaneroscopy. It can be read here: http://www.teleodynamics.com/?p=52 It makes me wonder: Has anyone tried to involve Deacon in discussion on this list? I've seen him appear on blogs responding to questions about his work. Seems he'd be both interested and welcome here... Cheers, Adrian Ivakhiv --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
