Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory
The subject of this paper is Charles Morris’ semiotic theory that has as one of its major projects the unification of all sciences of signs. However, since the above project has proven to be unsuccessful, we will try to examine here the reasons that led to this. Accordingly, we will argue t...
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| description | The subject of this paper is Charles Morris’ semiotic theory that has as one
of its major projects the unification of all sciences of signs. However,
since the above project has proven to be unsuccessful, we will try to
examine here the reasons that led to this. Accordingly, we will argue that
to transcend the particularities of individual disciplines that he wanted to
unify, Morris had to make certain ontological assumptions, instead of
theoretical and methodological ones, that they could share. However, because
the ‘sign’ as an ontological category could in our view only be established
if we follow the principles of the pragmatic philosophical tradition, we
will try to show that the reasons for this failure should be primarily
sought in different effects that consistent application of the pragmatic
principles has in each of them (primarily in linguistics and the philosophy
of language). On the other hand, this should enable us to draw several
important conclusions regarding Morris’ project: namely, that his failure
does not have to mean giving up semiotics as a potentially key discipline in
approaching some fundamental philosophical problems, but also that it would
demand return to the original semiotics developed in Peirce’s works. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb066457258c443189fdc494d4c58a362022-12-22T01:56:46ZdeuInstitute for Philosophy and Social Theory, BelgradeFilozofija i Društvo0353-57382334-85772020-01-0131110812510.2298/FID2001108B0353-57382001108BPhilosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theoryBogdanović Miloš0The Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, SerbiaThe subject of this paper is Charles Morris’ semiotic theory that has as one of its major projects the unification of all sciences of signs. However, since the above project has proven to be unsuccessful, we will try to examine here the reasons that led to this. Accordingly, we will argue that to transcend the particularities of individual disciplines that he wanted to unify, Morris had to make certain ontological assumptions, instead of theoretical and methodological ones, that they could share. However, because the ‘sign’ as an ontological category could in our view only be established if we follow the principles of the pragmatic philosophical tradition, we will try to show that the reasons for this failure should be primarily sought in different effects that consistent application of the pragmatic principles has in each of them (primarily in linguistics and the philosophy of language). On the other hand, this should enable us to draw several important conclusions regarding Morris’ project: namely, that his failure does not have to mean giving up semiotics as a potentially key discipline in approaching some fundamental philosophical problems, but also that it would demand return to the original semiotics developed in Peirce’s works.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2020/0353-57382001108B.pdfsemioticssemanticssyntacticspragmaticsontologypragmatismsignsemiosislinguisticsphilosophy of language |
| spellingShingle | Bogdanović Miloš Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory Filozofija i Društvo semiotics semantics syntactics pragmatics ontology pragmatism sign semiosis linguistics philosophy of language |
| title | Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory |
| title_full | Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory |
| title_fullStr | Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory |
| title_short | Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory |
| title_sort | philosophical implications of morris semiotic theory |
| topic | semiotics semantics syntactics pragmatics ontology pragmatism sign semiosis linguistics philosophy of language |
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