Semiotics

  • IO2S Deely – The Enchantment of De-Sign

    On 11 January 2022 at 2pm ET/11am PT (7pm UTC – check times around the world), Farouk Y. Seif will present “The Enchantment of De-Sign: Navigation Toward Meaning-Making” as the first presentation of the International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing. Mauricio Neubern will provide…

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  • Winter Seminars – Reminder

    Still time to sign up for 2022 Winter Seminars! Discussions start soon, readings already posted.

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  • 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…

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  • [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,…

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  • Announcing 2022 Seminar Catalog

    View the 2022 Seminar Catalog for the Lyceum Institute to preview which you’d like to take!

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  • Trivium: Logic

    Beginning the week of January 10, all Lyceum Institute members will have access to a 13-week course in traditional Logic. Discussion sessions will be held twice per week: Mondays at 6:00-6:45pm and Thursdays at 11:45am-12:30pm (subject to change). Each week there will be an assigned reading, problem set, and brief lecture. Discussion sessions will cover…

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  • Mending the Cartesian Rift: Walker Percy on Being Human

    This lecture explores Percy’s argument and its background in the thought of Descartes and Peirce, and provides an assessment of this final public articulation by Percy concerning the issues that preoccupied him as a writer: the contemporary predicament of the human being, lost in the cosmos that it understands more and more, while understanding itself…

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  • 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…

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  • How to be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan

    The colloquium lecture delivered in November 2020 by Adam Pugen, PhD “How to be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan” is now available to the public. You can listen or download below (full lecture at the bottom). Please consider supporting the Lyceum Institute if you enjoy this lecture! The Lyceum Institute is currently…

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  • Funding the Lyceum Institute in 2022

    Dear friends: I need your help. Two-and-a-half years ago I started an experiment: to see whether people genuinely and seriously interested could engage in a philosophical inquiry, online, dispersed around the country or even the world. The answer? “Yes”; but a “yes” that demanded more. As it turns out, those who are genuinely and seriously…

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