--Cornelis de Waal
The Peirce Edition Project is pleased to present:
Why Knowing about Individuals Matters
Steps Toward a Peircean Methodology
of Identical Signs
By Helmut Pape
University of Bamberg
June 20
Abstract:
The sciences and philosophy tend to have a one-eyed vision of knowledge: Its all theory, and the purer the better. Peircean pragmatism is an antidote to the idolatry of pure theory. In its dynamical picture of knowledge, theory is developed and corrected by its transformation into practical, detailed consequences about individuals. Therefore, Peirce’s account of indexical signs is not only just consistent with pragmatism, but supplies a detailed interpretation for this claim by showing that no empirical knowledge can be expressed without the use of indexical signs. This paper highlights a methodological reading of indexical signs by connecting them with a movement in the humanities (especially in Europe) that favors the evidential role of embodied meanings – of traces, clues, symptoms, as opposed to purely theoretical considerations.
The lecture will be given on Tuesday June 20, at 5:30 pm at the Institute of American Thought in Room ES 0014. The institute is housed in the basement of the Education and Social Work building on the IUPUI campus, 902 West New York Street, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Peirce Seminar meets on an irregular basis at the offices of the Peirce Edition Project.
For more information, see
http://www.iupui.edu/%7Epeirce/research/speakers.html
Or contact Cornelis de Waal at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cornelis de Waal, Ph.D.
Associate Editor, Peirce Edition Project
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce
Assistant Professor and Graduate Director
Department of Philosophy
http://www.iupui.edu/~philosop/cdewaal.htm
ADDRESS:
Peirce Edition Project tel.: (317) 274-2171
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