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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
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Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of pragmatism and of semiotics, proposed a theory of sign that plays a key role in pragmatist philosophy and serves as a foundation for the theory of thought and action. According to Peirce, meaning is non-existent if there is no sign pointing to another sign (mediation). In other words, there is no meaning which does not generate signs from signs, in long teleological chains distributed over time in a certain direction (semiosis). Peirce insists that ‘the woof and warp of all thought is symbols’, that ‘every thought and action is a sign’. This chapter first looks at the biography of Peirce and his intellectual influence before outlining the key concepts of his semiotics—mediation and semiosis—as well as their process orientation. It concludes by discussing the potential role of these concepts in process-oriented organization studies.
Title: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
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Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of pragmatism and of semiotics, proposed a theory of sign that plays a key role in pragmatist philosophy and serves as a foundation for the theory of thought and action.
According to Peirce, meaning is non-existent if there is no sign pointing to another sign (mediation).
In other words, there is no meaning which does not generate signs from signs, in long teleological chains distributed over time in a certain direction (semiosis).
Peirce insists that ‘the woof and warp of all thought is symbols’, that ‘every thought and action is a sign’.
This chapter first looks at the biography of Peirce and his intellectual influence before outlining the key concepts of his semiotics—mediation and semiosis—as well as their process orientation.
It concludes by discussing the potential role of these concepts in process-oriented organization studies.
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