What would C.S. Peirce say about Ron Unz’s IQ essay? Gene Callahan notes that IQ exams are more apt to test familiarity with symbolic signifiers — in which one thing represents another by convention — ...

Semiotics is the study of nature and the role of signs in the world. It was developed by scholars such as Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Yuri Lotman. Through these studies, it is ...

If we define semiotics as the discipline that studies social discursivity through the empirical manifestation of discourses in texts, practices, interactions, and other objects of study, then paying ...

The Journal of Philosophy was founded in 1904 as The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and J. McKeen Cattell. In 1906, Wendell T. Bush became ...