This paper suggests that Peirce’s pragmatism might be a more suitable underpinning of educational research than the currently prevailing constructivism, in particular with respect to science and mathematics education. Using examples from the educational literature, a case is made for a notion of “truth”, a pragmatist scientific method, Peirce’s doubt-belief cycle and his semiotics and logic in ...

This paper has a dual purpose. On the one hand, it suggests ways of making autopoietic theory more precise and more operational for concrete communication analysis. I discuss concepts such as distinction, system, boundary, environment, perturbation, and compensation. The explication of the concepts is based on catastrophe theory, and in order to make them operational I emphasise their affinity ...

relate translation to development. The second aim fl ows from the fi rst part’s argument that societies emerge out of, among others, complex translational interactions amongst individuals. It will do so by conceptualizing translation from a complexity and emergence point of view and relating this view on emergent semiotics to some of the most recent social research. It will further fulfi ll its...

Due to the increasing sophistication of the Internet, the role of computers as mediators becomes more apparent through their interfaces. Despite being a symbolic machine, only in the last decade Semiotics has attracted the attention of researchers in studying interfaces and human-computer interaction. This paper summarises some of the main contributions in the field of Semiotics and Interfaces,...

Cybersemiotics, in forging a new philosophy of science, addresses the failure of all disciplines to recognize and adequately account for qualia and motivation, interrogates the status of ̳knowing‘ contra the computational information-processing paradigm, and explores the role of the observer in knowing. The present article discusses these key features of cybersemiotics and, in particular, their...

A symbol is a tool used by the author in conveying his messages to reader. Symbols are also an aesthetic for authors. This study aims reveal symbolic rationality collection of Heaven Sungsang stories Triyanto Triwikromo. In this study, authors use new theory namely Critical Semiotics. The semiotics has its roots merging Northrop Frye's semiotic and Jurgen Habermas's Theory. emphasis point on Se...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the theoretical foundations of an approach for intelligent systems development. Derived from semiotics, a classic discipline in human sciences, the theory developed provides a mathematical framework for the concept of knowledge and for knowledge processing. As a result, a new perspective to study and to develop intelligent systems emerges. In part I, we foc...

Erkki Kilpinen studied sociology, philosophy and semiotics at the University of Helsinki, where he currently works as University Researcher. He has published internationally in those fields and about the methodology of social sciences. His recent articles include 'Memetics: A Critique'