Sökning: "Peirce semiotics"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Peirce semiotics.
1. Elis Eriksson: Ting och tecken
Sammanfattning : The title of this thesis translates as "Elis Eriksson: Objects and Signs" and concerns the life and work of the Swedish artist Elis Eriksson (1906-2006) as analysed from a semiotic point of view. The semiotic theory applied in the thesis is to be regarded as a theory of cultural semiotics or socio-semiotics, explicitly critical towards the rigid application of linguistic models so often associated with semiotic studies in the human sciences. LÄS MER
2. Surprise between media, minds and world : A Peircean process semiotic approach
Sammanfattning : The central idea of this thesis is that the relationship between cognition,media and environments is regulated by surprise. The relationship between cognition, media and environments is a foundational problem for studies of cognition, culture and/or communication. LÄS MER
3. Artworks as diagrams : Diagrammatic reasoning and the epistemic potential of art
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with establishing a bridge between matters of aesthetics and epistemology, by investigating the mechanisms through which artworks allow agents to derive knowledge through the former’s manipulation. It is proposed that, in order to understand the epistemic potential of artworks, we need to approach them as diagrams, in the sense developed by Charles Peirce. LÄS MER
4. Design Semiosis; Synthesis of Products in the Design Activity
Sammanfattning : Products are designed by someone to be perceived by someone.Within the body of this thesis there can be found thespecification of a conceptualization, an ontology, thatreflects the idea engendered by this statement. LÄS MER