IO2S Deely – No mere ‘flyover country’: some historical notes regarding the Schola Thomae as an integral context of the thought of Dr. John Deely
A Ruthenian Catholic, husband, and father, Matthew K. Minerd is a professor of philosophy and moral theology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA and Faculty Fellow for the Lyceum Institute. His academic work has appeared in the journals Nova et Vetera, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Saint Anselm Journal, Lex […]
IO2S Deely – Opening Ceremony
Tomorrow is the first official event of the International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing (IO2S Deely). This seminar will be going on throughout the entire year of 2022 and is a great opportunity for the Lyceum Institute and for the advancement of Semiotics. If […]
[2022 Winter] Semiotics: Cultural World of the Sign
How can semiotics help us to understand culture? Simply put: through understanding the causality of the sign in conjunction with the reality of the specifically-human world. This demands, of course, that we understand what we mean by reality. Is it just those things that exist independently of our minds? Or does it have a broader, […]
Announcing 2022 Seminar Catalog
View the 2022 Seminar Catalog for the Lyceum Institute to preview which you'd like to take!
Interview with Farouk Y. Seif
The second preliminary event of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics (IO2S) was held yesterday, as the first stage of the Systematic Module: De-Sign or Semiotics in Relation, with an interview of Dr. Farouk Y. Seif, Professor Emeritus at Antioch University Seattle, former President and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America, a […]
2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics
A Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing Announcing the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics (IO2S) to all friends of the Lyceum Institute! The occurrence of this seminar over the calendar year 2022 also marks the 80th anniversary of Deely’s arrival. Although Deely would most certainly instruct us not to […]
[Fall 2020] Semiotics: John Deely
Semiotics–toward which human beings took their first explicit steps in the beginning of the Latin Age of philosophy, in the work of St. Augustine of Hippo–is that by which we begin in a true postmodernism. This is one of the key and perhaps surprising claims of John Deely (1942–2017). That is, often today what is […]
