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Making Sense, Making Science

Release Date: 2020/12/01
ISBN: 9781786305794
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This book demonstrates the federative power of the methodology of the sciences of culture by exploiting its critical, historical, and comparative principles to address both cultural objects and disciplines that report on them. Scientific activity is rethought in its dimension of interpretative act responsible for both the human and the non-human. This book fills a gap by reconnecting in an innovative and original way the scientific, artistic and ethico-political spheres.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. PART 1: Semiotic Foundations of the Cultural Sciences
    1. 1 Cassirer and Symbolic Forms
    2. 1.1. Unity and diversity of modes of objectification
    3. 1.2. The harmonics of forms: internalization and exportation
    4. 1.3. From the social sciences to the natural sciences and back again: the example of statistics
    5. 1.4. Conclusion
    6. 1.5. References
    7. 2 Leroi-Gourhan and the Birth of the Symbolic Function
    8. 2.1. The image of man
    9. 2.2. The human body
    10. 2.3. The hand and the tool
    11. 2.4. Technique and language
    12. 2.5. Language and visualization
    13. 2.6. Memory and history
    14. 2.7. Conclusion
    15. 2.8. References
    16. 3 Simondon, Language and Technology
    17. 3.1. The precedence of technology over language
    18. 3.2. Simondon’s technological vocabulary
    19. 3.3. For a diagram of the technical lineages
    20. 3.4. Conclusion
    21. 3.5. References
  7. PART 2: Hermeneutics of Science, Hermeneutical Sciences
    1. 4 On the Philosophy of Mathematics: Reflections on “Making Science”, Based on Cavaillès
    2. 4.1. Mathematics, a precondition of rational philosophy
    3. 4.2. Reasoning by the absurd and excluded middle
    4. 4.3. The final causes
    5. 4.4. “Universally true” judgments
    6. 4.5. The linguistic problem of mathematics
    7. 4.6. The epistemological break: the explanatory versus comprehensive method
    8. 4.7. The understanding
    9. 4.8. Mathematics as becoming
    10. 4.9. Truth and metalanguage
    11. 4.10. The theoretical in difficulty, an aspect of the epistemological shift in linguistics
    12. 4.11. References
    13. 5 The Semiotic Articulation of Textual Meaning: Significance, Signification, Designation and Expression
    14. 5.1. The articulation of meaning according to three semiotic relations: signification, designation and expression
    15. 5.2. Significance and meaning
    16. 5.3. References
    17. 6 Semiotics of Cultures and Theoretical Hybridities: For a Renewal of Thought
    18. 6.1. Theories: cultural objects in transfer
    19. 6.2. Definitional reminder
    20. 6.3. Status of the arts and religious sciences
    21. 6.4. Geometric plasticity of theories
    22. 6.5. Theorists and the evolution of theories
    23. 6.6. Polysemy of cultural fact and scientific rigor
    24. 6.7. The return of diachrony
    25. 6.8. Conclusion
    26. 6.9. References
  8. PART 3: Literature and Arts Sciences
    1. 7 Challenges of Non-logocentric Semiotics of Cultures: Explorations Based on Music and the Notion of Significativity
    2. 7.1. Interpretative action, hermeneutic science and the general hermeneutization of the sciences
    3. 7.2. Hermeneutics of non-verbal objects: a challenge for the semiotics of cultures, a benefit for thinking about the reinsertion of a theory of meaning into a theory of stakes
    4. 7.3. Significativity
    5. 7.4. Music and the hermeneutics of significativity
    6. 7.5. Modal hermeneutics and engagement strategy
    7. 7.6. Science of the arts and the esthetic intention of the semiotics of cultures
    8. 7.7. References
    9. 8 The Roles of a Semiotics of the Arts: Working Hypotheses for Overcoming the Shortcomings of the Past
    10. 8.1. Some remedies for previous theoretical abuses
    11. 8.2. Some remedies for the universalization brought about by postmodernism
    12. 8.3. Some remedies to institutionalized nominalism of art
    13. 8.4. Some methodological remedies
    14. 8.5. References
  9. Conclusion: Making Sense Between Science and Ethics
    1. C.1. The difficulties of inclusive deliberation
    2. C.2. Argumentation in the deliberation process
    3. C.3. The ghost of the Habermasian argument
    4. C.4. Arguing in an interdisciplinary context
    5. C.5. Argument as an investigation
    6. C.6. In summary
    7. C.7. References
  10. List of Authors
  11. Index
  12. End User License Agreement
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