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Sense and cognition: narrativity between semiotics and cognitive science
Full text linkFil: Paolucci, Claudio. Universidad de Bolonia; Italia
Cognitive Semiotics. Integrating Signs, Minds, Meaning and Cognition
No full textThis volume provides a complete theory of a semiotic mind, showing the connections between thought, signs, representations and language and serves as a reference on the field of cognitive semantics. It offers a systematic and original discussion of the issues at the core of the debate in semiotics and the cognitive sciences. It takes into account the problems of representation, the nature of mind, the structure of perception, beliefs associated with habits, social cognition, autism, intersubjectivity and subjectivity. The chapters in this volume present the foundation of semiotics as a theory of cognition, offer a semiotic model of cognitive integration that combines Enactivism and the Extended Mind Theory, and investigate the role of imagination as the origin of perception. The author develops an account of beliefs that are associated with habits and meaning, grounded in Pragmatism, testing his Narrative Practice Semiotic Hypothesis on persons with autism spectrum disorders. He also integrates his ideas about the formation of the theory of mind with a theory of subjectivity, understood as self-consciousness which derives from semiotic cognitive abilities
Three Pragmatist Legacies in the Thought of Umberto Eco
Full text link1. Eco and Pragmatism Pragmatism was one of the greatest influences on Umberto Eco’s intellectual adventure. This influence can be seen not only in his philosophical work, but also in many of the ideas hidden behind his novels, which, as Eco himself had recently admitted by authorising the Library of Living Philosophers to extensively cover such a topic in the volume dedicated to him, are an important part of his philosophy. Or, perhaps, Eco’s novels should be called a “non-philosophy” that, ..
Face and Mask: “Person” and “subjectivity” in Language and Through Signs
Full text linkIn this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the “person” word and from Benveniste and Latour’s theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste’s idea that subjectivity is grounded on the “I” and Guillaume’s idea of a primacy of the “he”. Starting from the Iliad and from the semiotic idea of subject, I take side for Guillaume and Latour’s theory: it is the delocutive structure of the “he” which, in language, expresses subjectivity, namely the capacity of the subject to make himself the object of his reflections and of his words
Iconismo primario e gnoseologia semiotica
No full textIn this paper I will examine the notion of “Primary Iconism” by Umberto Eco and I will connect it to Peirce’s ideas from which it has been developed, with particular attention to the notions of intuition, index, cognition and the category of Secondness. I will affirm that the original formulation in Kant and the Platypus is not compatible with Peircean anti-intuitionism, but the changes made by Eco in “The Threshold and the Infinity” are. I will finally discuss the theses by Murphey, Short, Fumagalli and Gava that support a Peircean return to intuition, which is supposed to deny the original positions of the anti-Cartesian essays, and I will reject these theses
Nascondere sotto gli occhi. Percezione e interpretazione tra le armonie dissonanti di Mulholland Drive
No full textFilosofia del linguaggio, semiotica e filosofia della mente. A partire da C. S. Peirce nei cento anni dalla morte
No full textThe aim of this paper is to contribute in celebrating the just occurred centenary of Charles S. Peirce’s death, by underlying five main areas of research which are particular important in the actual debate of philosophy of language: i) semiotics and gnoseology; ii) theory of proposition; iii) philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences; iv) pragmatism and realism; v) theory of mathematics
A semiotic lifeworld. Semiotics and phenomenology: Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty
Full text linkIf we think of cognition and experience from the enactivist idea of a structural coupling between organism and environment, we see that this environment is first and foremost a semiotic environment, crowded with objects, norms, habits, institutions, and artefacts that shape our minds and represent the background of our perception of the world. This semiotic environment, which goes far beyond the opposition between nature and culture, (See Paolucci 2021. Cognitive semiotics: Integrating signs, minds, meaning, and cognition. Berlin: Springer: ch. 1.) is a semiotic lifeworld that is important to compare with the classic idea of lifeworld coming from phenomenology. In this paper, (i) we will first start with a comparison of the semiotic Lebenswelt and the phenomenological Lebenswelt; (ii) we will follow the construction of the semiotic lifeworld coming from Peirce’s Anti-Cartesian essays; (iii) we will make a deep comparison between the phenomenology coming from Peirce (phaneroscopy) and the phenomenology coming from Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty; (iv) we will show how these very same principles also ground structuralism; (v) we will show how this new semiotic lifeworld grounded on phaneroscopy is neither pre-logical nor pre-categorial. Rather, it is founded on the primacy of “telling” over “showing,” and on the primacy of discourse over perception
Wish you were here. Dai Pink Floyd all’enunciazione impersonale
Full text linkSono ormai diversi anni che provo a formulare una teoria semiotica dell’enunciazione impersonale, che sia capace di rendere conto di tutte le dimensioni che, storicamente, sono state pensate sotto questa nozione (cfr. Colas-Blaise, Perrin, Tore 2016)1. Con “impersonale”, intendo una teoria dell’enunciazione che sia fondata sull’“egli”, che, nella teoria classica di Benveniste – poi posta a fondamento di quella semiotica – era proprio la categoria della “non-persona” (da cui “impersonale”). In questo articolo provo a riassumere questa teoria e ad applicarla al disco Wish you were here dei Pink Floyd
Persona. Soggettività nel linguaggio e semiotica dell'enunciazione
No full textPer la lingua italiana, la persona è l’individuo; per l’etimologia è la maschera; per il teatro è il personaggio; per la linguistica è la categoria in cui si esprime la soggettività. E per la semiotica? La teoria dell’enunciazione dice che l’io della lingua è un messaggero (o nunzio) a cui ognuno di noi affida la propria parola. Basandosi su analisi di testi diversi e non solo verbali (serie tv, film, la canzone Wish you were here dei Pink Floyd), con questo libro Paolucci apre a una visione più ampia. Mette al centro il “si” impersonale anziché la coppia “io/tu”. Fa dialogare in modo originale l’eredità dello strutturalismo con le scienze cognitive. Costruisce una teoria fortemente innovativa, in cui per soggettività si intende la capacità di diventare oggetto delle nostre stesse riflessioni e così di elaborare pensiero strategico e azione efficace. Nell’infanzia si impara a dire “io” e “tu” solo dopo aver sperimentato la fantasia, il gioco di finzione, persino l’inganno. Ed è così che attraverso le maschere della persona si diventa un soggetto
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