Agent, person, subject, self : a theory of ontology, interaction, and infrastructure

This book offers both a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world. It provides a reconstructive rather than deconstructive theory of the individual, one which both analytically separates and theoretically synthesizes a range of faculties that are often confused and c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kockelman, Paul
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Oxford University Press 2013 Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Edition:	1
Series:	Foundations of Human Interaction
Subjects:	Anthropological Linguistics Cognition Cognition > Social aspects Cognitive Linguistics Ontology Ontology > Social aspects Pragmatics Psycholinguistics Semantics Semiotics Semiotics > Psychological aspects Semiotics > Social aspects Signs and symbols Signs and symbols > Social aspects mind subjectivity agency meaning infrastructure pragmatism interaction media personhood selfhood ontology
ISBN:	9780199926985, 0199926980
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Table of Contents:

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Semiotic Ontologies -- 1. Signs, Minds, and Meaning-in-the-World -- 2. Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure -- 2. Biosemiosis, Technocognition, and Sociogenesis -- 1. Relations between Relations -- 2. Significance and Selection -- 3. Communication between Conspecifics -- 4. The Organization of Cognitive Processes -- 5. Framing -- 6. Artificial and Natural Selection, Sieving and Serendipity -- 7. Lawn Mowers and Logic Gates -- 8. Relations between Relations Revisited -- 9. Networks of Interconnected Envorganisms -- 10. The Evolution and Epidemiology of Culture -- 3. Enclosing and Disclosing Worlds -- 1. The Neo-Organon -- 2. Semiotic Processes, Social Theories, and Obviated Ontologies -- 3. Social Statuses, Material Substances, and Mental States -- 4. Relatively Emblematic Indices -- 5. Semiotic Agents and Generalized Others -- 6. From Performativity to Transformativity -- 4. Residence in the World -- 1. From Being-in-the-World to Meaning-in-the-World -- 2. Heeding Affordances -- 3. Wielding Instruments -- 4. Undertaking Actions -- 5. Inhabiting Roles -- 6. Fulfilling Identities -- 7. From Acting under a Description to Comporting within an Interpretation -- 5. Representations of the World -- 1. Intentionality Reframed -- 2. Cognitive Representations -- 3. Discursive Practices -- 4. From Theory of Mind to the Interpretation of Signs -- 5. Intentionality and Emblemeticity -- 6. Selfhood, Affect, and Value -- 1. I Err, Therefore I Am -- 2. From Subjectivity to Selfhood -- 3. From Cognition to Affect -- 4. Maps, Terrains, and Travelers -- 5. From Meaning to Value -- Notes -- References -- People Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W