[In this volume, the author] provides a general history of philosophy together with background to the field of semiotics. Moving through four ages (Greek thought, the Latin age, the modern period beginning with Galileo, Descartes and Locke, and the postmodern age from Pierce to …
The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization."
How can philosophy or science claim to discover objective truth when their arguments originate from subjective beings? In "Intentionality and Semiotics", John N. Deely offers a controversial solution to the problem of subjectivity in inquiry. He creates an interface between semi…
