Diagrammatology

Preface

Introduction

I. DIAGRAMS - PEIRCE AND HUSSERL

1 Let's Stick Together - Peirce's Metaphysics of the Continuum

2 The Physiology of Arguments - Peirce's Extreme Realism and the Continuum in his Theory of Signs

3 How to Learn More - An Apology for a Strong Concept of Iconicity

4 Moving Pictures of Thought - Diagrams as Centerpiece of a Peircean Epistemology

5 Everything is Transformed - Transformation in Semiotics

6 Categories and Diagrams - the Grasping of Ideal Objects in Husserl and Peirce

7 Mereology - Parts and Wholes in Phenomenology and Semiotics

8 Diagrammatical Reasoning and the Synthetic A Priori

II. BIOSEMIOTICS, PICTURES, LITERATURE

9 Biosemiotics as Material and Formal Ontology

10 A Natural Symphony? - Actuality of von Uexkll's Bedeutungslehre

11 Man the Abstract Animal - Diagrams, Abstraction, and the Semiotic Missing Link

12 The Signifying Body - Making Sense of "Embodiment"

13 Christ Levitating and the Vanishing Square - Diagrams in Picture Analysis

14 Into the Picture - Husserl's Picture Theories and Two Picture Types

15 Small Outline of a Theory of the Sketch

16 Who is Michael Wo-Ling Ptah-Hotep Jerolomon? - Literary interpretation as Thought Experiment

17 Five Types of Schematic Iconicity in the Literary Text - an Extension of the Ingardenian Viewpoint

18 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Espionage in Reality and Fiction: Regional Ontology and Iconicity

Perspective

APPENDIX - Peircean Continuity between Mathematics and Philosophy

Bibliography

Notes

Index