Semiotics and Pragmatism

PART I - ON PHILOSOPHY OF ART.- 1. Reflections on a Poetic of Otherness.- 2. Reflections On a Poetic Ground in Peirce's Philosophy.- 3. Peircean Seeds for a Philosophy of Art.- 4. The Poetics of Nameless Things.- 5. The Meaning of Firstness in Schelling, Schopenhauer and Peirce.- PART II - ON HEURISTIC LOGIC.- 6. The Heuristic Exclusivity of Abduction in Peirce's Philosophy.- 7. The Heuristic Power of Agapism in Peirce's Philosophy.- 8. On Uncertainty.- 9. Vital Ends and Practical Otherness: On Applied Sciences in Peirce's Philosophy.- PART III - ON THE THEORY OF BELIEFS.- 10.Additional Reflections on Choices, Dogmatisms, and Bets: Justifying Peirce's Realism.- 11. The Twilight of Reality and the Melancholic Irony of Brilliant, Unlasting Success: Reflecting on Emotional and Logical Interpretants in Peirce's Modes for Fixation of Beliefs.- PART IV - HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF PRAGMATISM IN BRAZIL.- 12. Topics On the Studies of Peirce's Pragmatism and North American Philosophy in Brazil.-PART V - ON THE THEORY OF HABITS.- 13. The Formation of Habits and the Origin of Laws in Ch. S. Peirce's VII Cambridge Conference.- 14. The Double Face of Habits - Time and Timeless in Pragmatic Experience.- 15. Habits Formation and Self-Organization - A Peircean Approach.- PART VI - ON PRAGMATISM AND OBJECTIVE IDEALISM.- 16. The Schellingian Roots of Peirce's Idealism.- 17. The Continuity of Life: On Peirce's Objective Idealism.- 18. The Semiotic Resilient Mind: Conflictual and Agapic Relationship Between Logical and Emotional Interpretants.- PART VII - ON PRAGMATISM AND PRAGMATICISM.- 19. Neopragmatism Viewed by Pragmaticism: A Redescription.- 20. The Ontology of Action in Peirce's Philosophy.- 21. Considerations on the Statute of Ethics in Charles S. Peirce's Pragmatism.- 22. Ethical Aspects of Fake News and Alternative Facts - A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach.- 23. The Aesthetic Face of Peirce's Pragmaticist Epistemology.- 24. Semiotics and Pragmatism: Theoretical Interfaces.- REFERENCES.

Ivo Assad Ibri is full professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the founder and director of the Center for Pragmatism Studies at his university and editor of the journal Cognitio.  His work is mainly focused on American pragmatism and German idealism. He published several essays on pragmatism and semiotics and a book on Peirce's metaphysics called Kósmos Noétos (Springer, 2017). He is fellow past president (2014 - 2016) of The Charles Sanders Peirce Society and honorary president of the Latin America Peirce Society.