Browsing by Subject "generality"

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    Peirce on the Symbolical Foundation of Personhood
    (Eidos, 2021-10) De Tienne, André; Philosophy, School of Liberal Arts
    This paper discusses the semiotic and metaphysical framework within which Peirce elaborated a symbolical and dynamical conception of personhood. It exhibits the centrality of Peirce’s early conception of the “unity of consistency” along with its decentering advantages. It describes how this gave rise to a metaphysics of personhood that questions the singularity of individuals. It then conducts a semiotic study of the evolutive process across which something indeterminate evolves into something determinate that increasingly personifies itself following the logic of symbolization, taking into account two major types of indetermination: generality and vagueness. It then considers the kind of teleology at work within personification. It concludes that personhood so conceived is not restricted to only individual human beings, for the process of symbolization at work is not confined to a particular species-specific application.
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    Postprandial Peirce: A Final Talk
    (Indiana University, 2020) De Tienne, André; Philosophy, School of Liberal Arts
    This is the transcript of a public conversation held by a medium with Peirce's spiritual consciousness following an excellent dinner in the Delmonico Room at the Hôtel Fauchères in the evening of April 19, 2019, the 105th anniversary of Peirce's death. The transcript testifies to the continued reality of metaphysics in the afterlife, where one encounters the ultimate community of inquiry. It provides a number of revelations soundly supported by intricate semiotic distinctions. It also sets the methodological ground for a new subdiscipline of metaphysics open to a wide range of creative applications.