How to Make Our Signs Clear

Martin Švantner, Ph.D. (1982) is assistant professor at the Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics, Charles University, Prague and at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Pilsen. His professional interest focuses on C. S. Peirce´s semiotic, theoretical rhetoric and history of semiotics. Vít Gvoždiak, Ph.D. (1983) is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, the Czech Academy of Sciences. His professional interest focuses on theoretical semiotics and comparative theory of signs.

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1 Introduction
 Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Švantner
2 On the Interconnection between Peirce’s Pragmatism and Semiotics
 Emil Višňovský
3 Habits, Purposes and Pragmatism
 Henrik Rydenfelt
4 Logic of Relatives and Semiotics in Peirce. From the “Subject-Predicate” Inferential Structure to the Synechistic Topology of Interpretation
 Claudio Paolucci
5 Reflections on the Presence of Peirce’s Category of Firstness in Schelling’ and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
 Ivo Assad Ibri
6 Charybdis of Semiotics and Scylla of Rhetoric. Peirce and Gorgias of Leontini on the Rhetoric of Being
 Martin Švantner
7 “When You Find a Crossroad, Take it”, Or, How to Do the Right Thing, Although Not for the Right Reasons
 Emanuele Fadda
8 Jakobson and Peirce: Deep Misunderstanding, or Creative Innovation?
 Vít Gvoždiak
9 Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the Poststructuralist Context
 Michaela Fišerová
10 Gilles Deleuzeʼs Theory of Sign and Its Reflection of Peircean Semiotics
 Martin Charvát and Michal Karľa
11 Charles Peirce and the Theory of Disembodiment
 Stephanie Schneider

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