Posts about linguistics

Trivium: Art of Grammar 2023

Today (2 January) we begin our 2023 course in studying the Trivium: Art of Grammar. Our first discussion session will take place on 9 January 2023 at 6:00pm ET. This course is open to all enrolled Lyceum Institute members. If you would like to sign-up and take this course, enroll here. You can find out […]

John Deely on Semiotics and Logocentrism

Within current philosophy, David Clarke has made a belated attempted to define semiotic itself in the restrictive terms already established as proper to semiology: an “attempt to extend analogically features initially arrived at by examining language use to more primitive signs, with logical features of language becoming the archetype on which analysis of these latter […]

⚘ Philosophy as a Habit of Cenoscopic Inquiry | Luigi Russi

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⚘ Reality’s Windows ☀ Joseph DeChicchis

After reviewing the academic context of the Semiotic Society of America's 1975 formation, DeChicchis reconsiders Deely's 2001 comment about the SSA's first president in light of Deely's purchase of two books about structuralism and model theory.

IO2S Deely – Introduction to Ethnosemiotics

On 27 May 2022 at 12:00pm ET (check event times around the world here), Francesco Marsciani will present an “Introduction to Ethnosemiotics”. Associate Professor in the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna, Francesco Marsciani studied with U. Eco and A.J. Greimas. In the late ’80s, he has collaborated in the workings of […]

Beyond the University

Beyond the University exists because the modern university, even where it succeeds, has become inadequate to the true tasks of education.  Education is not the transmission of information or preparation for employment, but the formation of good intellectual habits.  These aims no longer fit comfortably within institutions ordered primarily toward efficiency, expansion, and measurable outcomes.  The Lyceum Institute was founded to provide a genuinely different institutional form—one ordered toward education as an integral part of life rather than as a credentialing process.

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