PEIRCE AND VALUE THEORY ON PEIRCEAN ETHICS AND AESTHETICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- NOTES -- Introduction -- I. Peirce on Ethics -- Rendering the World more Reasonable: The Practical Significance of Peirce's Normative Science -- 1. Introduction -- 1. The Nature of Normative Science -- 2. The Three Goods of the Normative Sciences -- 3. Theoretical Presuppositions About Theory and Practice -- 4. Practical Implications of the Normative Sciences -- NOTE -- Peirce and Royce on Person: New Directions for Ethical Theory -- Introduction -- 1. Person as an Intersubjective, Relational, Developmental Mode of Being -- 2. Person and Self-contribution -- 3. Person as Relational, Developmental, Contextual - Some Implications -- C.S. Peirceand Philosophical Ethics -- 1. Peirce's Criticism of Philosophical Ethics -- 2. The "Normative Sciences" -- 3. "Sentiment" and Communicative Ethics -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- A Peircean Account of Moral Judgments -- NOTES -- What Logic Can Learn From Ethics -- Collaboration and Casuistry: A Peircean Pragmatic for the Clinical Setting -- Introduction -- 1. Collaboration -- 2. Casuistry -- 3. Key Peircean Concepts -- 4. Peirce's Concepts in the Clinical-Ethical Context -- 5. Assessment -- Peircean Triads in the Work of J. Lacan: Desire and the Ethics of the Sign -- Introduction -- Never Give Up Desiring -- Do Not Block the Way of Inquiry (1.135-45) -- II. Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of Philosophical Thought -- The Primacy of the Aesthetic in Peirce and Classic American Philosophy -- 1. The Valuational Matrix of Logic as Semeiotic -- 2. Peirce's Responsiveness to Art -- 3. Santayana, Mead, Dewey, and Buchler -- NOTES -- Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning -- NOTES -- Peirce and Husserl: Abduction, Apperception and Aesthetics.

Introduction -- Apperception in Husserl's view -- Peirce's Way of Understanding Abduction -- The Meaning of Regression : Aesthetics and Phenomenology -- Conclusion -- Peirce, Saussure and Jakobson's Aesthetic Function: Towards a Synthetic View of the Aesthetic Function -- Introduction -- 1. Jakobson's Aesthetic Function in the Milieu of Saussurean and Peircean Perspectives -- 1.1 The bipolar sign and the artifice -- 1.2 Sound shape and immediate signification -- 1.3 Jakobson's artifice and Peirce's human sign -- 2. Peirce and the Aesthetic Function -- 2.1 Triadism and the human sign -- 2.2 The degenerate sign - degrees of interpretation -- NOTES -- Some Reflections on Peirce's Aesthetics from a Structuralist Point of View -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Aesthetics Inside the Classification of Sciences -- 2. Some more Remarks about Aesthetics and Art Criticism -- 3. The Aesthetic Experience as a Form of Reasoning -- 4. Aesthetics as a Form of Knowledge and as a Form of Experience -- III. Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of his Thought -- The Place of Peirce's 'Esthetic' in his Thought and in the Tradition of Aesthetics -- 1. The Original Aim of Aesthetics -- 2. The Appropriate Character of Feeling -- 3. Pleasure and Pain in Peirce's Empirical Psychology -- 4. The "Sense of Taking a Habit" and "Habits of Feeling" -- NOTES -- Peircean Fragments on the Aesthetic Experience -- Introduction -- 1. Beauty as kalos -- 2. The Signifícate Effect: the Quality of Feeling -- 3. The Ground: The Metaphorical Hypoicon -- 4. Aristotelian and Kantian Hints -- Aesthetic Experience in Charles S. Peirce: The Threshold -- 1. Grandmother Aesthetics -- 2. The True Sequence -- 3. The Virtual Thing and the Coming into Existence -- 4. Adam's Sight, the Glimpse -- 5. Instantaneous Reality. The Thirdness -- 6. Previousness -- NOTES.

The Mediating Role of 'Esthetics' in Charles S. Peirce's Semiotics: Configurations and Space Relations -- 1. The Method of Methods -- 2. The Indefinite As Ground of Real Value -- The Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics of Geometrical Construction -- Introduction -- 1. The Ethics of Geometrical Construction -- 2. The Aesthetic Ideal -- 3. The Ultimate Aim of Reasoning -- 4. Practical versus Theoretical Reasoning -- 5. Pure Science -- 6. Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim: Action, Conduct, and Self-control -- 7. Conclusion -- IV. Peirce's Aesthetics and its Applications -- Objects, Signs, and Works of Art: A Semiotic Study of Aesthèsis -- 1. Objects -- 2. Works of Art -- 3. Aesthetic Objectivity -- 4. Aesthetic Subjectivity -- Representation and Intersemiosis -- 1. Theoretical Considerations -- 1.1 Intersemiosis -- 1.2 Complex objects and representation -- 1.3 Complex semioses and representation -- 2. Analysis -- 2.1 A complex object -- 2.2 The visual sign -- 2.3 Representations -- 2.4 The verbal text -- 2.5 Representation and intersemiosis -- Peirce and Literary Studies with Special Emphasis on the Theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle -- Introduction -- 1. Peirce as Writer -- 2. Peirce as Linguist and Literary Critic -- 3. Peirce and the Development and the Contemporary Structural and Semiotic Poetics -- 4. Literature as Communication -- 5. The Fictive World -- 6. Peirce's Antipositivistic Scientific Method and Modern Poetics -- 7. Pragmaticism -- 7.1 Pragmaticism and meaning -- 7.2 Pragmaticism and function -- 7.3 Pragmaticism and the concept of norm violation -- 7.4 Pragmatism and the interaction between sender and receiver in artistic texts -- 8. Peirce's Phenomenological Categories -- NOTES -- Scientific Fiction and Literary Fiction -- 'Origin' in the Peircean Interpretation of a Painting -- Introduction -- 1. The Analytic Process -- 2. Buren and Morellet.

3. Van Gogh -- 4. Massé and Wiener -- 5. Rupture -- Can Peirce be Applied to Music? -- Introduction -- 1. Musical Form as a Cognition of the Musicologist or Application 1: Bohuslav Martinu -- 2. Musical Realism and Iconicity or Application 2: Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition -- A Peircean Perspective on the Growth of Markedness and Musical Meaning -- 1. A Theory of Musical Meaning -- 2. Markedness and Peirce's Categories as Applied to the Growth of Musical Style -- 3. Types and Tokens in Beethoven's Triad Doublings -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.