Semiotics

  • ⚘ The Semiosis of Boethius’s Prosimetric Style in “De consolatione philosophiae” | Wesley C. Yu

    On 24 September 2022 at 2pm ET (see event times around the world here and join the live Q&A here) Wesley Chihyung Yu will present on “The Semiosi of Boethius’s Prosimetric Style in De consolatione philosophiae“. Wesley Chihyung Yu is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. His interdisciplinary research on medieval poetics concentrates…

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  • Fall Seminar Previews

    METAPHYSICS: THE DEPTHS OF ACT & POTENCY “In long Indian file, as when herons take wing, the white birds were now all flying towards Ahab’s boat; and when within a few yards began fluttering over the water there, wheeling round and round, with joyous, expectant cries.  Their vision was keener than man’s; Ahab could perceive…

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  • ⚘ Navigating the Cybersemiotic Experience: From Deely to Brier | Claudia Jacques

    Presenter: Claudia Jacques On 17 September 2022 at 2pm ET (see event times around the world and join the live Q&A here), Claudia Jacques de Moraes Cardoso (PhD, MFA) will present on Navigating the Cybersemiotic Experience: From Deely to Brier. Claudia is a Brazilian-American interdisciplinary technoetic artist, designer, educator and researcher, based in New York.…

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  • ⚘ Semiotics: From Deely to Couto | Mário Santiago de Carvalho

    Presenter: Mário Santiago de Carvalho On 10 September 2022, at 10am ET (see event times around the world here and join the live Q&A here), Mário Santiago de Carvalho will present on the tradition of semiotics connecting John Deely and Sebastião do Couto. Carvalho is Full Professor at the FLUC – Faculty of Arts and…

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  • ⚘ Peircean Robotics: Semiotics applied to the Emergence of Symbols | Takafumi Kato

    On 7 September 2022 at 9am ET (see event times around the world), Takafumi Kato will present on Peircean Robots: Semiotics applied to the Emergence of Symbols. Those who wish to join in the live Q&A can do so here. KATO Takafumi is a full-time lecturer at Osaka Seikei University in Japan. He received his…

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  • [Fall 2022] Semiotics: Peirce and the Modern Spirit

    “The last of the moderns,” writes John Deely of Charles Sanders Peirce, “and the first of the postmoderns.” Why this switch, this flip, between modernity and postmodernity? The question of postmodernity’s meaning and definition is altogether another issue: but one which we can understand only inasmuch as we first understand rightly what modernity is, or…

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  • ⚘ Meanings we live in: Husserl’s theory of meaning and the surrounding world | Hamid Malekzadeh

    Hamid Malekzadeh (PhD in Political Theory, University of Tehran) is the Executive Manager of the Iranian Society for Phenomenology (ISP) as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology (IYP). Some of his publishing are I Am A Not-Others: An Inquiry in Concreteness of the Political Subject (Pajvak, Tehran: 2014) and Embodiment and…

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  • ⚘ Philosophy as a Habit of Cenoscopic Inquiry | Luigi Russi

    Roll in… and become an active partner in the business of thinking about reality and understanding the bits and the whole of what is and what is not.

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  • Introduction to Philosophical Principles

    Philosophy—real, true philosophy—is transformative. It will not make you successful in the world, but it will answer a question that all the success and security never can: what is the good of being alive?

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  • ⚘ Time and the Sensible | Julio Pinto

    Carry on wondering… and you will be guided sensibly along the road uniting those no longer living, those not yet dead, and those still to be born. Meeting room: https://8×8.vc/ief_tech/io2s-deely Julio Pinto has a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985), where he served as Teaching Assistant (1980-1985) of Portuguese and Visiting…

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