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Semiotics = knowledge of the action of signs

John Deely examines the role of Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274) in the growth of semiotic consciousness among the Latins, as Charles Sanders Peirce will take up the matter in influencing the twentieth-century establishment of semiotics as a global intellectual movement. Although Aquinas never focused on the subject of signs for its own sake, he frequently treats of it in relation to other direct investigations in a great variety of contexts. The result of his treatments is to have left a series of texts which, though not without their inner tensions, contain a series of consequences and connections which can be developed into a unified theory of the being constitutive of signs as a general mode. Precisely this theory was spelled out systematically for the first time in the 1632 Treatise on Signs of John Poinsot, expressly grounded in a pulling together of Aquinas's various texts together with a careful analysis of the role of signs in human experience. The resulting doctrinal perspective proves to have been implicit in Aquinas and to lie at the foundation of Peirce's notion of signs as triadic relations, a notion he took over from the later Latins and developed anew, particularly in shifting the focus from the being to the action proper to signs, or 'semiosis'. It is this appropriation and shift that marks the boundary between modernity and postmodernism in philosophy, with respect to which the writings of Aquinas are like a taproot.

 

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John Deely bibliography (from the 20th Century):

  • Deely, John. (1965) "Evolution: Concept and Content. Part I," Listening 0, 27-50.

  • Deely, John. (1966) "The Emergence of Man: An Inquiry Into the Operation of Natural Selection in the Making of Man," The New Scholasticism 40, 141-176. Reprinted in The Problem of Evolution, Edited by John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (New York: Appleton Century-Crofts, 1973), pp.120-145.

  • Deely, John. (1967) "The Situation of Heidegger in the Tradition of Christian Philosophy," The Thomist 31, 159-244.

  • Deely, John. (1968) "The Immateriality of the Intentional as Such," The New Scholasticism 42, 293-306. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1969) "Evolution and Ethics," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 43, 171-184. Reprinted in The Problem of Evolution, Edited by John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (New York: Appleton Century-Crofts, 1973), pp.187-209.

  • Deely, John. (1969a) "The Philosophical Dimensions of The Origin of Species, Part 1," The Thomist 33 (1), 75-149. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1969b) "The Philosophical Dimensions of The Origin of Species, Part 2," The Thomist 33 (2), 251-342. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1969c) Review of Bernard Delgaauw, Evolution: The Theory of Teilhard de Chardin, in The Thomist 33 (4), 794-796. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1971) The Tradition Via Heidegger: An Essay on the Meaning of Being in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

  • Deely, John. (1971a) "Animal Intelligence and Concept-Formation," The Thomist 35 (1), 43-93. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1971b) Review of Yves Simon, The Great Dialogue of Nature and Space, in The Thomist 35 (2), 344-346. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1971c) "The Myth as Integral Objectivity," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 45, 67-76.

  • Deely, John N., and Raymond J. Nogar, eds. (1973) The Problem of Evolution: A study of the philosophical repercussions of evolutionary science. (Contemporary problems in philosophy). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. ISBN 0390259985.

  • Deely, John. (1973a) "The Impact of Evolution on Scientific Method," in John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (eds.) The problem of evolution, 3-82, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

  • Deely, John. (1973b) "The Emergence of Man," in John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (eds.) The Problem of Evolution, 119-145, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

  • Deely, John. (1973c) "Evolution and Ethics," in John Deely and Raymond J. Nogar (eds.) The Problem of Evolution, 187-209, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

  • Deely, John. (1974) "Two Approaches to Language: Philosophical and Historical Reflections on the Point of Departure of Jean Poinsot's Semiotic," The Thomist 38 (4): 856-907. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1975) "Reference to the Non-Existent," The Thomist 39 (2): 254-308. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1976) "The Doctrine of Signs: Taking Form At Last," Review of Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics, in Semiotica 18 (2): 171-193.

  • Deely, John. (1977) "Metaphysics, Modern Thought, and "Thomism"," Notes et Documents 8: 12-18.

  • Deely, John. (1977a) "'Semiotic' as the Doctrine of Signs," Ars Semiotica 1 (2): 41-68.

  • Deely, John. (1978) "Toward the Origin of Semiotic," in Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.) Sight, Sound, and Sense, 1-30, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

  • Deely, John. (1978) "What's in a Name?," Review of Thomas Sebeok, Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs, in Semiotica 22 (1-2): 151-181.

  • Deely, John. (1982) Introducing Semiotic: Its History and Doctrine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Advances in Semiotics). ISBN 0253202876.

  • Deely, John. (1985) Logic as a Liberal Art: Rethinking Logic in the Perspective of Semiotic Volume 2. Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University. (Monographs, Working Papers and Prepublications of the Toronto Semiotic Circle).

  • Deely, John. (1985a) "Semiotic and the Liberal Arts," New Scholasticism LIX (3): 296-322.

  • Deely, John, Brooke Williams, and Felicia Kruse, eds. (1986) Frontiers in Semiotics. (Advances in Semiotics). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253203716.

  • Deely, John. (1986a) "A Context for Narrative Universals: Semiology as a Pars Semiotica," American Journal of Semiotics 4 (3-4): 53-68.

  • Deely, John. (1986b) "Semiotic in the Thought of Jacques Maritain," Recherche Sémiotique / Semiotic Inquiry 6: 1-30.

  • Deely, John. (1986c) "Semiotic Society of America Style Sheet," American Journal of Semiotics 4 (3-4): 193-215. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1986d) "The Coalescence of Semiotic Consciousness," in John Deely, Brooke Williams and Felicia Kruse (eds.) Frontiers in Semiotics, 5-34, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Advances in Semiotics). ISBN 0253203716.

  • Deely, John. (1986e) "On the Notion of Phytosemiotics," in John Deely, Brooke Williams and Felicia Kruse (eds.) Frontiers in Semiotics, 96-103, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Advances in Semiotics). ISBN 0253203716.

  • Deely, John. (1986f) "Semiotic as Framework and Direction," in John Deely, Brooke Williams and Felicia Kruse (eds.) Frontiers in Semiotics, 264-271, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Advances in Semiotics). ISBN 0253203716.

  • Deely, John. (1986g) "Editor's Preface: 'Pars pro Toto'," in John Deely, Brooke Williams and Felicia Kruse (eds.) Frontiers in Semiotics, viii-xvii, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Advances in Semiotics). ISBN 0253203716.

  • Deely, John. (1987) "On the Problem of Interpreting the Term 'First' in the Expression 'First Philosophy'," in John Deely (ed.) Semiotics 1987, 3-14, Lanham: University Press of America.

  • Deely, John. (1987a) "A Maxim for Semiotics," in John Deely (ed.) Semiotics 1987, iii-vi, Lanham: University Press of America.

  • Deely, John. (1988) "The Semiotic of John Poinsot: Yesterday and Tomorrow," Semiotica 69: 31-128.

  • Deely, John, and Terry Prewitt. (1989) "A Reference Style for Semiotics: Notes on Historical Layering," Semiotic Scene n.s. 1 (2): 10.

  • Deely, John. (1990) Basics of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Advances in Semiotics). ISBN 1587310619 [View item].

  • Deely, John, Terry Prewitt, and Karen Haworth. (1990a) "On the SSA Style Sheet," Semiotic Scene n.s. 2 (2): 9.

  • Deely, John. (1990b) "Semiotic Society of America Style Sheet, Brief Version," Semiotic Scene n.s. 2 (3): 11-12.

  • Deely, John. (1992) "The Supplement of the Copula," Review of Metaphysics 46 (December): 251-277.

  • Deely, John. (1993b) "Locke's Proposal for Semiotic and the Scholastic Doctrine of Species," The Modern Schoolman 70: 165-188.

  • Deely, John. (1994) New Beginnings: Early Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Thought. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Toronto studies in semiotics). ISBN 0802075835.

  • Deely, John. (1994a) The Human Use of Signs, or: Elements of Anthroposemiosis. Savage, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0847678032.

  • Deely, John. (1994b) "What Happened to Philosophy Between Aquinas and Descartes?," The Thomist 58 (4): 543-568. [View item].

  • Deely, John. (1994c) "Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata," in Ecstatic naturalism: Signs of the world, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Preface to the book by Robert Corrington).

  • Deely, John. (1995) "A Prospect of Postmodernity," Listening 30 (1): 7-14.

  • Deely, John, and Mauricio Beuchot. (1995a) "Common Sources for the Semiotic of Charles Peirce and John Poinsot," Review of Metaphysics 48 (March): 539-566.

  • Deely, John. (1995b) "The Primum Cognitum and Our Knowledge of Essences," in Robert Corrington and John Deely (eds.) Semiotics 1993, 35-49, New York: Peter Lang.

  • Deely, John. (1997) "Quid sit Postmodernismus?," in Roman Ciapalo (ed.) Postmodernism and Christian philosophy, 68-96, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.

  • Deely, John. (1997) "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Catholic Church," Semiotica 117 (2/4): 67-102.

  • Deely, John. (1997a) "The Four Ages of Understanding between Ancient Physics and Postmodern Semiotics," in Cary William Spinks and John Deely (eds.) Semiotics 1996, 229-239, New York: Peter Lang.

  • Deely, John. (1997b) "A New Beginning in Philosophy: Poinsot's Contribution to the Seventeenth-Century Search," in Kevin White (ed.) Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery, 275-314, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 29). ISBN 0813208742.

  • Deely, John. (1997c) "Looking back on A Theory of Semiotics: One Small Step for Philosophy, One Giant Leap for the Doctrine of Signs," in Rocco Capozzi (ed.) Reading Eco: An Anthology, 82-110, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

  • Deely, John. (1998) "A Precis of the Intersemiosis of Perception and Understanding," in William Pencak and J. Ralph Lindgren (eds.) New approaches to semiotics and the human sciences: essays in honor of Roberta Kevelson, 279-306, Bern: Peter Lang.

  • Deely, John. (2000) "The Latin Foundations for Semiotic Consciusness: Augustine (Fifth Century AD) to Poinsot (Seventeenth Century)," Recherche Sémiotique / Semiotic Inquiry 20: 11-32.

  • Deely, John. (2000a) "A New Beginning for the Sciences," in Paul Perron, Leonard G. Sbrocchi, Paul Colilli and Marcel Danesi (eds.) Semiotics as a Bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences, 103-116, Ottawa: Legas. (Presented at the November 2-7, 1995, Symposium 'Semiotics as a bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences' organized at Victoria College of the University of Toronto by Prof. Marcel Danesi).

  • Deely, John. (2001) Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Toronto: University of Toronto. ISBN 0802047351 [View item].
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    Lombard The Doctrine of Signs has a long history: it characterizes the Latin Age. Take Lombard, for example