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The Italian association for semiotic studies

The purpose of the Charles S. Peirce Society is to encourage study of and communication about the work of Charles S. Peirce and its ongoing influence in the many fields of intellectual endeavor to which he contributed. The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society is a premier peer-reviewed journal specializing in the history of American philosophy.

The European Pragmatism Association promotes the philosophical and scientific research concerning and building upon this philosophical outlook by organizing events and supporting affiliated working groups and journals. Its aim is to enable cooperation between different nations and regions in Europe and highlight European research at global venues.

The International Association for Semiotic Studies — Association Internationale de Sémiotique IASS-AIS was founded in 1969 and is the world organization in semiotics. The IASS-AIS has both individual and collective members (international and multinational associations dealing with the semiotics of particular topics, national semiotics associations, regional groups, research centers, etc.)

 Pragmatism has in recent years attracted a number of Nordic philosophers and scholars working in different fields within philosophy and related subjects in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Initiated in 2006, the Nordic Pragmatism Network aims at bringing these scholars together and establishing contacts both inside and outside the Nordic countries. The NPN publishes the open-access book series Nordic Studies in Pragmatism.

The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) exists to advance American philosophy by promoting interest and research in its history, encouraging original and creative work in its spirit, and providing forums for the exchange of information and ideas.

Michael Shapiro’s blog; aims at the explanation of social variation in language

Ben Udell’s Peirce blog

A virtual reading group covering the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, one page at a time

Edited by Douglas R Anderson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Jude Jones, Fordham University

Nordic Studies in Pragmatism is a peer reviewed book series published by the Nordic Pragmatism Network. The series publishes studies on the tradition of philosophical pragmatism as well as on closely related topics. It is distributed on-line in an open access format, making the volumes freely available for scholars and students anywhere in the world.

The series focuses on the state of contemporary semiotics and its current applications. It is intended to produce a number of concise interventions in semiotics, by which is meant studies of discrete areas of nature and culture that are interrogated using sign theory (in particular, as derived from the example of Peirce, Saussure, Sebeok, Lotman, von Uexküll, Greimas, Eco).

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) publishes new developments and advances in all the fields of philosophy, epistemology, and ethics, bringing them together with a cluster of scientific disciplines and technological outcomes: ranging from computer science to life sciences, from economics, law, and education to engineering, logic, and mathematics, from medicine to physics, human sciences, and politics. The series aims at covering all the challenging philosophical and ethical themes of contemporary society, making them appropriately applicable to contemporary theoretical and practical problems, impasses, controversies, and conflicts.

Tartu Semiotics Library is an international book series on semiotics that includes monographs, handbooks, dictionaries, textbooks and collections of articles in the field of semiotics. The series was established in 1998, by Peeter Torop, Mihhail Lotman, and Kalevi Kull.

Semiotics is an interpretative science that provides powerful analytical tools for the study of our perception of reality. In recognition of semiotics’ interdisciplinary nature, this series publishes original work that promotes interaction between research and theory in semiotics, the communication sciences, and the cognitive sciences.

Calendar of Pragmatism and American Philosophy events, maintained by the Charles S. Peirce Society.

An on-line forum for discussion of the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and related topics. Image of address. To join the list, send a message to LIST@LIST.IUPUI.EDU with the line SUBscribe PEIRCE-L in the body of the message. Omit any comment or signature.

The American Journal of Semiotics is a peer-reviewed research publication with an interdisciplinary focus on the general subject of signs and sign systems. The journal explores all communication and culture experienced as discourse codes, including events, messages, practices, and texts expressed and perceived as cultural, social, and natural subjects or objects. It publishes topical articles, response articles or comments, and critical reviews, and also provides a venue for unusually long manuscripts. There are no methodological restrictions but all contributions must combine a rigorous standard of scholarly research with the appropriate application of a semiotic theory and method relevant to the author’s chosen subject matter.

The journal Biosemiotics provides a platform for exceptional peer-reviewed papers that is as broad as the rapidly growing discipline for which it is named. Its coverage spans a range of disciplines, bridging biology, philosophy, linguistics and the communication sciences. Conceived in the insight that the genetic code is a language as old as life itself, and grounded in the study of signs, of communication and of information in organisms, biosemiotics is evolving today toward the challenge of naturalizing not only biological information but also biological meaning, in the belief that signs and codes are fundamental components of the living world. Biosemiotics offers an advanced forum for the exchange of ideas on this exciting new area of biological theory. It serves a readership comprising biosemioticians themselves, along with interested researchers in disciplines from social semiotics to community ecology, from communication science to artificial intelligence

Cognitive Semiotics is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal devoted to high-quality research, integrating perspectives, methods and insight from cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and semiotics, placing meaning-making into the broader context of cognitive, social, and neurobiological processes. The journal is a platform for the study of meaning-making writ large: in our interactions with the surroundings in all domains, in the natural as well as in the social world, in language and other sign vehicles, as well as in perception, and in action.

Contemporary Pragmatism is an interdisciplinary, international journal for discussing pragmatism, and applying pragmatism to current topics

EJPAP publishes articles which explore the American tradition in philosophy, with a special focus on pragmatism and on the relationships of pragmatism to the European tradition. Both historically minded and present-oriented papers are welcomed. EJPAP promotes exploration of interdisciplinary issues and approaches and favors the mutual dialogue among different philosophical traditions. To that extent, EJPAP welcomes contributions dealing with any field of philosophical inquiry: epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and action, ethics, aesthetics, social & political philosophy.

The International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS) combines interdisciplinary approaches on theoretical, empirical, formal, and computational research that contributes to the design and synthesis of semiotic systems, including biological evidence and evolutionary and philosophical frameworks. This journal publishes original research on the design, analysis, and synthesis of semiotic processes in biological and artificial systems and encompasses technological applications on computational modeling of semiotic production, computing, interpretation, and communication. Articles included in this publication present comparative approaches to semiotic processes including evolutionary, synthetic and analytic perspectives.

The Journal of Philosophical Logic provides a forum for work at the crossroads of philosophy and logic, old and new, with contributions ranging from conceptual to technical.
Accordingly, the Journal invites papers in all of the traditional areas of philosophical logic, including but not limited to: various versions of modal, temporal, epistemic, and deontic logic; constructive logics; relevance and other sub-classical logics; many-valued logics; logics of conditionals; quantum logic; decision theory, inductive logic, logics of belief change, and formal epistemology; defeasible and nonmonotonic logics; formal philosophy of language; vagueness; and theories of truth and, validity.

Pragmatism Today is an online peer-reviewed journal established on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Central-European Pragmatist Forum in June 2010.

The Public Journal of Semiotics (PJOS) is a non-profit organization aiming to publish original research articles in domains relating to semiotics: the systematic study of meaning. It welcomes substantial articles reporting the results of empirical inquiries, theoretical reflections based on consistent arguments, introduction of innovative models and methods of investigation, and meta-analyses of reliable data.

The Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies.

Starting from 1998, Sign Systems Studies is published as an international peer-reviewed journal on the semiotics of culture and nature. Issued regularly, one volume per year, it is indexed in major scientific databases. Since 2001, each volume includes two issues.

Signs & Media is a bilingual (English-Chinese), peer-reviewed academic journal, founded in 2008 by the Institute of Semiotics & Media Studies (ISMS), Sichuan University. Signs & Media, dedicating itself to the interdisciplinary research on semiotics and media studies, has since published more than 200 professional papers by scholars from all around the world. Under the editorship of Professor Henry Yiheng Zhao, Signs & Media endeavors to systematically expand semiotics to all fields of human sciences, covering, notably, communication and media studies, cultural studies, art and literature, as well as narratology, stylistics, discourse analysis, cognitive science in the semiotic perspective, and, in particular, reinterpretations of Chinese traditional semiotic heritage.

Signs is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal on the semiotics of mind, consciousness, language and culture as well as living and inanimate nature, and possible connections between them.

Social Semiotics deals with the study of communicational resources and practices through words, images, behaviours, settings, sounds, design, etc, and the way these are connected to the organization of societies and everyday lives. The journal welcomes papers especially that analyse the everyday and the sociopolitical significance of representations.

Synthese is a philosophy journal focusing on contemporary issues in epistemology, philosophy of science, and related fields.

Since its founding in 1965, the premier peer-reviewed journal specializing in the history of American philosophy. Named after the founder of American Pragmatism but all types of American thought are covered from the Colonial period to the recent past. All books published in the field are discussed in essay reviews.

The European Pragmatism Association promotes the philosophical and scientific research concerning and building upon this philosophical outlook by organizing events and supporting affiliated working groups and journals. Its aim is to enable cooperation between different nations and regions in Europe and highlight European research at global venues.

 Pragmatism has in recent years attracted a number of Nordic philosophers and scholars working in different fields within philosophy and related subjects in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Initiated in 2006, the Nordic Pragmatism Network aims at bringing these scholars together and establishing contacts both inside and outside the Nordic countries. The NPN publishes the open-access book series Nordic Studies in Pragmatism.

The central Peirce portal, providing access to resources for the life, work, and continuing interest in Peirce.

Information about pragmatism and pragmatists.

Semioticon aims to provide innovative, responsible and reliable knowledge in a variety of domains relevant to semiotics. Publishes the SemiotiX bulletin and the Signpost event calendar.

A research project that aims at the elaboration of a complete descriptions of the classes of signs and their mutual relation, discussing its relevance to theory and epistemology of communication

The mission of the Peirce Edition Project (IUPUI / Indianapolis) is to organize and date the manuscripts and to produce an approved scholarly edition of Peirce’s writings. The Peirce Edition Project is an international center for research related to Peirce’s works. It makes its extensive collection of primary and secondary materials available to local and visiting students and scholars. The project also provides training for students seeking practical experience in editing, scholarly research, and development.

The goal of the Scalable Peirce Interpretation Network (SPIN) is to develop a model environment for distributed collaboration that can support an international network of researchers, students, and citizen scholars in cooperative efforts to encode and interpret handwritten manuscripts, including those of high complexity.

Docent Press publishes original books focused on the history of mathematics and computing. The catalogue includes several titles on Peirce.

The Central European Pragmatist Forum is based on academic scholarship, but it does not serve exclusively academic purposes. It also serves to encourage studies in cultural identity of Central Europe and its cultural transformation based on the ideas of philosophical pragmatism. The CEPF organises conferences and publishes the on-line journal Pragmatism Today.

The Center for Pragmatism Studies (CPS) of the Philosophy Graduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, established in 1998. The CPS maintains an intensive international exchange of specialists in the field of pragmatism with ramifications to the theory of knowledge, logics and aesthetics, in an in-depth dialogue on the tradition of the history of ideas. Publishes the print journal Cognitio and the on-line journal Cognitio-Estudos.

Peirce research centre at Universidad Nacional de Colombia

The Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment (Humboldt University, Berlin) aims to transform the prevailing mimesis theory of pictures, which argues that images are conceived as likenesses, into a Picture Act Theory. Its focus lies in research on the specific form of images, their vitality, and the substitution of body and image. The research in partly grounded in the philosophy of Peirce.

The Helsinki Peirce Research Centre is the home of Peirce studies at the University of Helsinki. Activities include several research projects, and the guest lectures and seminars of the Helsinki Metaphysical Club. Members of the Centre also maintain the Commens Dictionary.

The Institute for American Thought (IUPUI / Indianapolis) unites the teaching faculty, editing specialists, and research holdings of the Peirce Edition Project, the Santayana Edition, the Frederick Douglass Papers, and the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies with related academic programs in American Studies, Professional Editing, and American philosophy. The Institute is structured around a public research center that supports the work of its academic programs and scholarly editions while providing a singular resource for students and scholars from Indiana and worldwide.

The first and oldest organized center for research on the life and works of Peirce

The mission of the Peirce Edition Project (IUPUI / Indianapolis) is to organize and date the manuscripts and to produce an approved scholarly edition of Peirce’s writings. The Peirce Edition Project is an international center for research related to Peirce’s works. It makes its extensive collection of primary and secondary materials available to local and visiting students and scholars. The project also provides training for students seeking practical experience in editing, scholarly research, and development.

The Peirce Studies Group (Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos: GEP) at the University of Navarra promotes the study of the work of Charles S. Peirce, especially in Spain and in the Spanish speaking countries, in the belief that his thought may offer some key insights into problems related to the culture, science and philosophy of the 21st century. The Group offers a platform for an exchange of ideas regarding the work of Peirce, American pragmatism, its reception in Europe and in the Hispanic world, and related topics. Since its inception, the activities of the Group have included the participation of scholars from different fields, including history, linguistics, literature, philosophy of science, law, communication studies and theology.

The Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment (Humboldt University, Berlin) aims to transform the prevailing mimesis theory of pictures, which argues that images are conceived as likenesses, into a Picture Act Theory. Its focus lies in research on the specific form of images, their vitality, and the substitution of body and image. The research in partly grounded in the philosophy of Peirce.

The Peirce Studies Group (Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos: GEP) at the University of Navarra promotes the study of the work of Charles S. Peirce, especially in Spain and in the Spanish speaking countries, in the belief that his thought may offer some key insights into problems related to the culture, science and philosophy of the 21st century. The Group offers a platform for an exchange of ideas regarding the work of Peirce, American pragmatism, its reception in Europe and in the Hispanic world, and related topics. Since its inception, the activities of the Group have included the participation of scholars from different fields, including history, linguistics, literature, philosophy of science, law, communication studies and theology.

76 Definitions of The Sign by C. S. Peirce collected and analyzed by Robert Marty (Department of Mathematics, University of Perpignan, France) with an appendix of 12 Further Definitions or Equivalents proposed by Alfred Lang. Originally posted on Marty’s home page (see http://web.archive.org/web/20010422141758/http://www.univ-perp.fr/see/rch/lts/marty/76defeng.htm), archived at Arisbe.

The complete Century Dictionary (first ed. 1889-1891; a reformatted ed. 1911) available in DjVu and jpeg formats, published on-line by Global Language Resources (Century Dictionary project directed by Jeffery A. Triggs and Sara G. Triggs).

Includes numerous entries authored by Peirce (not attributed).

High-quality digital images of Peirce’s late manuscripts. About 2,000 images currently available.

Electronic version of the Richard Robin Catalogue to the Charles Sanders Peirce papers, 1787-1951 (MS Am 1632, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.), with annotations/corrections by Christian Kloesel

The first volume of the The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, published on line by textlog.de. Originally published in 1931, edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss.

The fifth volume of the The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, published on line by textlog.de. Originally published in 1934, edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss.

Index of vols. 1-6 & 8 of the Writings as a pdf file. Provided for free by the Peirce Edition Project.

The Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. 1 (1901), ed. by J. M. Baldwin. Entries A-O available. Published on-line by the Classics in the History of Psychology, developed by Christopher D. Green.

Includes many passages authored by Peirce (“C. S. P.”). See also “Peirce’s Contributions to Baldwin’s Dictionary”, compiled by John Sowa.

List of available documents compiled by Arisbe

Existential graph resources compiled by Frithjof Dau. Last updated in 2007.

The third edition of The Published Works of Charles Sanders Peirce and the accompanying A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles Sanders Peirce with a Bibliography of Secondary Studies, made available in digital format by the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

The Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce by Richard Robin, provided by the Peirce Edition Project

The goal of the Scalable Peirce Interpretation Network (SPIN) is to develop a model environment for distributed collaboration that can support an international network of researchers, students, and citizen scholars in cooperative efforts to encode and interpret handwritten manuscripts, including those of high complexity.

Provided by Centro Studi Peirce, Milan. Compiled by Marco Annoni and Gabriele Gava

The Wikipedia Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography consolidates numerous references to Charles Sanders Peirce’s writings, including letters, manuscripts, publications, and Nachlass

The Metaphysical Club at the University of Helsinki is an open discussion and study group, which is primarily focused on the investigation and advancement of pragmatism and Peircean philosophy. The activities include organised debates in addition to original presentations by members and invited guests.

The aim of the Indianapolis Peirce Seminar is to enable visiting scholars to present their work to a specialized audience that has a strong interest in the work of Charles S. Peirce. It meets on an irregular basis at the offices of the Peirce Edition Project.