Re: “On the Paradigm of Experience Appro priate for Semiotic”

* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell,
   "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic",
   http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm

Re: Comments by Steven Ericsson-Zenith

I am sympathetic with any effort to bring the humanities and
the full variety of the sciences, special or unspecial, into
cross-cultural dialogue with each other. As a matter of fact,
Susan Awbrey and I have written at length on the scholarship
of integration and the architectonic difficulties that stand
in its way, for instance, here:

Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (May 1991),
“An Architecture for Inquiry : Building Computer Platforms for Discovery”,
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Technology and Education,
Toronto, Canada, pp. 874–875. Online at http://www.abccommunity.org/tmp-a.html

Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (September 1999),
“Organizations of Learning or Learning Organizations : The Challenge of Creating
Integrative Universities for the Next Century”, Second International Conference
of the Journal ‘Organization’, Re-Organizing Knowledge, Trans-Forming Institutions :
Knowing, Knowledge, and the University in the 21st Century, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA. Online at http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm

Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (May 2001),
“Conceptual Barriers to Creating Integrative Universities”,
Organization : The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization,
Theory, and Society 8(2), Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 269–284.
Abstract at http://org.sagepub.com/content/8/2/269.abstract

In all of that work we have emphasized the critical importance of
the sign-relational framework for achieving the desired integration
of diverse perspectives, both when those differences occur between the
disciplines on account of their distinctive domains of interest and when
they arise within each discipline on account of the competing claims among
research, service, and teaching, or between practical and theoretical views.

Keeping in mind the various dimensions of experience, I took some pains
to give an "even-handed" account of the tensions involved in integration:

>> On the one hand I am much in favor of seeking deeper-lying continuities ...
>>
>> On the other hand I cannot help noticing the facts of usage.

Still, I don't think we'll get very far with integrating the humanities
and the sciences by setting up semiotics as just another isolated silo
and ignoring the way terms of art are used in the other arts and sciences.

Regards,

Jon

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