Natural Propositions is about the desirable consequence of Charles Peirce's conception of propositions; namely, that they are no strangers to a naturalist world-view and thus form natural inhabitants of reality. This is because propositions---in Peirce's generalization: Dicisigns---do not depend upon human language nor upon human consciousness or intentionality, contrary to most standard assumptions. In addition to a careful consideration of Peirce's work, the book includes numerous examples of Dicisigns in nature as firefly signaling and vervet monkey alarm calls.

Natural Propositions: The Actuality of Peirce's Doctrine of Dicisigns

Politics & Social Sciences

Stjernfelt, Frederik

Philosophy

Docent Press

Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics (Synthese Library, 336)

Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. This book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporaneous doctrine of categorical intuition and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Springer

This artists’ book contains complete documentation of 'The Temptation of the Diagram’, a project conceived at the Getty Research Institute studio while Ritchie was Artist in Residence in 2012. Subsequently the project has been presented in the form of large-scale installations and curated exhibitions around the world. In the three accompanying essays, Matthew Ritchie examines the history of diagrams and proposes a new theory of diagrammatic relationships; Professor Rogers describes the project in depth and Professor Stjernfelt provides a glossary of diagrammatic terms.

The Temptation of the Diagram (Incomplete Projects)

Arts & Photography

Ritchie, Matthew

Rogers, Kenneth

Business, Purtill Family

Individual Artists

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This open access monograph argues&nbsp;established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet.&nbsp;Moderating policies of tech&nbsp;companies&nbsp;as Facebook, Twitter and Google&nbsp;have resulted in posts being removed on an industrial scale. While this moderation is often encouraged by governments -&nbsp;on the pretext that&nbsp;terrorism, bullying, pornography, "hate speech"&nbsp;and&nbsp;"fake news"&nbsp;will slowly disappear from the internet - it enables&nbsp;tech&nbsp;companies to censure our society. It is the social media companies who define what is&nbsp;blacklisted in&nbsp;their community standards. And given the dominance of social media in our information society, we run the risk of outsourcing the definition of our&nbsp;principles&nbsp;for discussion in the public domain to private companies.&nbsp;Instead of&nbsp;leaving it to&nbsp;social media companies&nbsp;only&nbsp;to take action, the authors argue democratic institutions should take an active role in moderating&nbsp;criminal content&nbsp;on the internet. To make this possible,&nbsp;tech&nbsp;companies should be analyzed whether&nbsp;they are approaching a monopoly. Antitrust legislation should be applied to bring those monopolies within democratic governmental oversight. Despite being in different stages in their lives, Anne Mette is in the startup phase of her research career, while Frederik is one of the most prolific philosophers in Denmark, the authors found each other in their concern about Free Speech on the internet. The book was originally published in Danish as&nbsp;Dit opslag er blevet fjernet - techgiganter & ytringsfrihed. &nbsp; Praise for 'Your Post has been Removed' &nbsp;"From my perspective both as a politician and as private book collector, this is the most important non-fiction book of the 21st&nbsp;Century. It should be disseminated to all European citizens. The learnings of this book and the use we make of them today are crucial for every man, woman and child on earth. Now and in the future."&nbsp; Jens Rohde, member of the European Parliament for the&nbsp;Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe "This timely book compellingly presents an impressive array of information and analysis about the urgent threats the tech giants pose to the robust freedom of speech and access to information that are essential for individual liberty and democratic self-government.&nbsp;&nbsp; It constructively explores potential strategies for restoring individual control over information flows to and about us.&nbsp;&nbsp;Policymakers worldwide should take heed!" Nadine Strossen, Professor, New York Law School. Author, HATE:&nbsp;&nbsp;Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship

Your Post has been Removed: Tech Giants and Freedom of Speech

Lauritzen, Anne Mette

Humor & Entertainment

The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the "Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway. Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political, economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics, ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel, threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of the period saw the gradual smothering of the new public sphere as well as an international pamphlet storm over what was happening in Denmark. Readers all over Europe proved curious to learn about the radical experiment with enlightened absolutism in Denmark; interest was heightened by the involvement of the Danish Queen, the English princess Caroline Matilda to whom Struensee had an intimate relation. The book is a detailed portrayal of a seminal event in the development of the public sphere in Europe.

The World's First Full Press Freedom: The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770–1773

History

Langen, Ulrik

Europe

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the realism of his semiotics: the issue of how sign systems are developed and used in the investigation of reality. Thus, it deals with the precise character of Peirce's realism; with Peirce's special notion of propositions as signs which, at the same time, denote and describe the same object. It deals with diagrams as signs which depict more or less abstract states-of-affairs, facilitating reasoning about them; with assertions as public claims about the truth of propositions. It deals with iconicity in logic, the issue of self-control in reasoning, dependences between phenomena in their realist descriptions. A number of chapters deal with applied semiotics: with biosemiotic sign use among pre-human organisms: the multimedia combination of pictorial and linguistic information in human semiotic genres like cartoons, posters, poetry, monuments. All in all, the book makes a strong case for the actual relevance of Peirce's realist semiotics.

Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce (Peirceana, 6)

Science & Math

de Gruyter

An Alchemist in Chains: The Case Against the Mystic Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona

Andreas Gursky (born 1955) is one of the most celebrated living photographers. His images of contemporary culture's excesses and sublimities rival the greatest history paintings for size and narrative richness; more than any of his contemporaries, Gursky has amply fulfilled what Samuel Beckett once declared the task of the artist to be: "to find a form to accommodate the mess." His epic photographs enumerate with relentless acuity the proliferation of goods and commodities in our era-perhaps mostly famously in his 99-cent series of photographs of the endless aisles of American 99-cent stores. In the 1990s, Gursky began to use digital technology to intensify this acuity, compelling every inch of the visual data in his photographs to an almost unbearable pitch of equivalence and detail. This volume offers a new overview of Gursky's career, featuring both classic series and his most recent bodies of work. Included here in full color are such iconic images as the 99-cent stores; the Formula 1 racetracks of Bahrain; the Tokyo and Chicago stock exchanges; the subterranean locker rooms of German miners; as well as his newest photographs, such as the Ocean series (2010) and his shots of a fashion show by designers Viktor and Rolf (2011).

Andreas Gursky

TØjner, Poul Erik

Photography & Video

Hatje Cantz

Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. This book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporaneous doctrine of categorical intuition and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology.

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