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Dialogue in Peirce, Lotman, and Bakhtin: A comparative study
Th e notion of dialogue is foundational for both Juri Lotman and Mikhail Bakhtin. It is also central in Charles S. Peirceâs semeiotics and logic. While there are several scholarly comparisons of Bakhtinâs and Lotmanâs dialogisms, these have yet to be compared with Peirceâs semeiotic dialogues. Th is article takes tentative steps toward a comparative study of dialogue in Peirce, Lotman, and Bakhtin. Peirceâs understanding of dialogue is explicated, and compared with both Lotmanâs as well as Bakhtinâs conceptions. Lotman saw dialogue as the basic meaning-making mechanism in the semio sphere. Th e benefi ts and shortcomings of reconceptualizing the semiosphere on the basis of Peircean and Bakhtinian dialogues are weighed. Th e aim is to explore methodological alternatives in semiotics, not to challenge Lotmanâs initial model. It is claimed that the semiosphere qua model operating with Bakhtinian dialogues is narrower in scope than Lotmanâs original conception, while the semiosphere qua model operating with Peircean dialogues appears to be broader in scope. It is concluded that the choice between alternative dialogical foundations must be informed by attentiveness to their diff erences, and should be motivated by the researcherâs goals and theoretical commitments
Toward Truthlikeness in Historiography
Truthlikeness in historiography would allow us to be optimistic fallible realists about historiography â to hold that historical knowledge is about the past, true albeit fallible, and can increase over time. In this paper, three desiderata for a concept of truthlikeness in historiography will be outlined. One of the main challenges for truthlikeness is historiographic skepticism which holds that historiography is indistinguishable from fiction and cannot therefore furnish us with true knowledge about the past. Such skepticism rests on the postmodern challenge, which will be criticized on the grounds that it rests on an implausible theory of meaning. It will be shown that Peirceâs semeiotic and pragmatist theory of truth, interpreted dialogically or game-theoretically, provides a suitable framework within which to pursue the project of defining a concept of truthlikeness for historiography. Finally, directions for possible future research into truthlikeness in historiography, including ways of defining a measure of truthlikeness, will be considered
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Radical Immersions: Navigating between virtual/physical environments and information bubbles - DRHA 2019 Conference Proceedings
This publication consists of the peer-reviewed papers and posters presented at the DRHA 2019 Conference "Radical Immersions: navigating between virtual / physical environments and information bubbles".
The conference was held at Watermans Arts Centre, London (8-10 September 2019).
For further information: http://www.2019.drha.uk
Controversies in the Contemporary World
This essay explains the conceptual tools used in the international LeLo project, coordinated by Marcelo Dascal, which have led, often with innovative results, to the reconstruction of the virtual debate between Leibniz and Locke. The project focuses on the connection between controversies and a specific idea of communication, articulated on several levels, in which the traditional mathematical theory of communication is finally surpassed. In this way, dialogue and care for the audience become the evidence of a more marked attention to the contexts in which a renewed ethics of communication is announced. It allows us to face adequately the new challenges posed by a reality so changing as to resemble a chameleon