Icon and Abduction: Situatedness in Peircean Cognitive Semiotics

Atã, Pedro; Queiroz, João

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“…In this case, habit functions as an explanatory component for the co-evolution of environment and cognition. We have elsewhere stressed Peirce as an early proposer of situated and distributed cognition (Atã and Queiroz 2014). The ecological mechanism of inheritance conceptualized by the notion of cognitive niche is a necessary requisite for cognitive processes in a similar sense that the regularity of action conceptualized by the notion of habit as a requisite for semiosis.…”

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Habit in Semiosis: Two Different Perspectives Based on Hierarchical Multi-level System Modeling and Niche Construction Theory

Atã

Queiroz

2016

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics

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Habit in semiosis can be modeled both as a macro-level in a hierarchical multi-level system where it functions as boundary conditions for emergence of semiosis, and as a cognitive niche produced by an ecologically-inherited environment of cognitive artifacts. According to the first perspective, semiosis is modeled in terms of a multilayered system, with micro functional entities at the lower-level and with higher-level processes being mereologically composed of these lower-level entities. According to the second perspective, habits are embedded in ecologically-inherited environments of signs that co-evolve with cognition. Both descriptions offer a novel approximation of Peirce's semiotics and theoretical findings in other areas (hierarchy theory, evolutionary biology), suggesting new frameworks to approach the concept of habit integrated with its role in semiosis.

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“…To exemplify the relevance of niche construction as locus of habit, consider the widely known London Underground Diagram (LUD) (Atã and Queiroz 2014) (see Fig. 7.5).…”

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Habit in Semiosis: Two Different Perspectives Based on Hierarchical Multi-level System Modeling and Niche Construction Theory

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Queiroz

2016

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics

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“…We assume that the type of semiosis involved in the signification of the efficient properties of a representation is the iconic semiosis (see Atã and Queiroz 2014;Zhang and Norman 1994;Zhang 1997). Efficiency corresponds to advantage in the material manipulation of the sign for a certain goal.…”

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“…Peirce can be considered an important precursor of the situated mind and distributed cognition thesis (Atã and Queiroz 2014). Recently, the distributed cognition and extended mind approach have questioned the legitimacy of skin and skull to serve as criteria for the demarcation of the boundaries between mind and the outside world (see Clark and Chalmers 1998;Clark 1998, Clark 2006b).…”

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“…In this sense, representational efficiency is an influence that is directed from the material features of the representation to the cognitive performance. This process is identified as iconic: signification is determined by the sign materiality (criterion of relative dependence of the sign process) and problem-solving involves the discovery of information about an object (operational definition of the sign) (see Atã and Queiroz 2014). This is not to say that indexical and symbolic signification is absent, but rather that the decisive element for efficiency is iconicity.…”

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Iconic semiosis and representational efficiency in the London Underground Diagram

Atã

Bitarello

Queiroz

2014

Cognitive Semiotics

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The icon is the type of sign connected to efficient representational features, and its manipulation reveals more information about its object. The London Underground Diagram (LUD) is an iconic artifact and a well-known example of representational efficiency, having been copied by urban transportation systems worldwide. This paper investigates the efficiency of the LUD in the light of different conceptions of iconicity. We stress that a specialized representation is an icon of the formal structure of the problem for which it has been specialized. By embedding such rules of action and behavior, the icon acts as a semiotic artifact distributing cognitive effort and participating in niche construction.

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Material Engagement Theory and its philosophical ties to pragmatism

Iliopoulos

2018

Phenom Cogn Sci

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Material Engagement Theory (MET) is currently driving a conceptual change in the archaeology of mind. Drawing upon the dictates of enactivism and active externalism, it specifically calls for a radical reconceptualization of mind and material culture. Unpersuaded by the common assumption that cognition is brain-bound, Malafouris argues in favour of a process ontology that situates thinking in action. In granting ontological primacy to material engagement, MET seeks to illuminate the emergence of human ways of thinking through the practical effects of the material world. Considering that this is a characteristic example of a pragmatic take on cognition, this contemporary theoretical platform appears to share a lot with pragmatism. As of late, scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, semiotics, and cognitive science have made important steps towards the rapprochement between pragmatism and externalism. Looking to contribute to this growing corpus of work, the present paper focuses on MET's relation to the pragmatism of Peirce, Dewey, and Mead. Having elsewhere recognized the overlap and complementarity between Malafouris' and Peirce's theories in particular, I developed a pragmatic and enactive theory of cognitive semiotics that is suitably geared to trace the nature, emergence, and evolution of material signs. Therefore, besides noting some obvious historical connections, I hereby aim to establish (at least part of) the theoretical backdrop upon which this composite theory is supposed to function, while also exploring new potential avenues. Given that this cognitive semiotic framework can be seen as a pragmatic extension of Malafouris' enactivist approach to archaeology, the current paper delves into MET's theoretical underpinnings, seeking to complement its working hypotheses and concepts with philosophical notions and ideas advanced long ago. This synthesis ultimately concludes with a call for the reconceptualization of 'representation' as a heuristic concept.

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Icon and Abduction: Situatedness in Peircean Cognitive Semiotics

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Habit in Semiosis: Two Different Perspectives Based on Hierarchical Multi-level System Modeling and Niche Construction Theory

Habit in Semiosis: Two Different Perspectives Based on Hierarchical Multi-level System Modeling and Niche Construction Theory

Iconic semiosis and representational efficiency in the London Underground Diagram

Material Engagement Theory and its philosophical ties to pragmatism

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