Mind as an External Sign: A Semiotic Externalist Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Synthese Library)

Atã, Pedro/ Queiroz, João

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 172 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783032089878

Full Description

This book applies notions from C.S. Peirce's philosophy, such as semiosis, mind, diagrammatic reasoning, abduction, and habits, to contemporary problems in distributed cognitive science. These problems include distributed cognitive systems, cognitive niche construction, external representations, cognitive artifacts, agency, and emergence. In this movement, Peirce's approach provides a philosophical framework that reconceptualizes fundamental notions in distributed cognitive science. Among the founders of pragmatism, Charles S. Peirce remains one of the least influential within the pragmatic turn in cognitive science. Nevertheless, Peirce's theory of mind is processist and externalist, placing it at the center of cognition and the action of external signs. This book is therefore of interest to philosophers of science as well as cognitive scientists and cognitive linguists.

Contents

1 Semiotic turn in distributed cognition.- 2 Active semiotic externalism.- 3 Semiosis as an emergent process.- 4 The emergence of sign action: the case of Classical ballet.- 5 Artifacts in problem solving: iconicity and abductive inference.- 6 The object of iconic artifacts: why an underground system is a semiotic problem.- 7 Poetry improvisation as problem-solving in distributed cognitive systems.- 8 Semiosis as problem-solving, problem-solving as semiosis.- 9 Meaning is niche construction: semiotic artifacts and cognitive externalism.- 10 Artwork authorship as a legisign-in-action.- 11 Towards a typology of artistic experimentation -- metasemiotic experiment as niche construction 'pump'.- 12 Conclusion.- References.