Intentionality and Semiotics: A Story of Mutual Fecundation (USP-Approaches to Postmodernity)

How can philosophy or science claim to discover objective truth when their arguments originate from subjective beings? In *Intentionality and Semiotics* , John Deely offers a controversial solution to the problem of subjectivity in inquiry. He creates an interface between semiotics and the concept of intentionality, as it appears in Aquinas’s work, to demonstrate that every sign is irrevocably linked to the reality of relations. In the process, Deely builds a bridge between classical thinkers such as Aristotle and modernists such as Heidegger and Peirce in this innovative volume. How Can Either Philosophy Or Science Claim To Discover Objective Truth When What Is Asserted Exists Only Subjectively In The Individual Minds Of The Investigators, And In The Minds They Persuade? In Intentionality And Semiotics, John Deely Succinctly And Vigorously Summarizes His Solution To This Problem, Formulated In Response To An Invitation From W. Norris Clarke, Sj (to Whom This Book Is Dedicated) To Address The Problem Before A Meeting Of The International Society Of Thomas Aquinas Within The Framework Of The 2003 Annual Meeting Of The American Philosophical Association.--book Jacket. Preface: Modernity's Passing -- Intentionality -- Gilson And Aquinas -- Immateriality And Intentionality: The Latin Development, Jacques Maritain, And The Contemporary Scene -- Specifying Forms, Impressed And Expressed: Terms Without Equivalence In Modern Philosophy -- The Problem Of Thing And Object -- Specifying Forms, Objects, And Things: The Problem Of Actual Intelligibility -- Abstraction -- Agere Sequitur Esse: The Role Of Relation In The Order Of Being -- Revolutionizing The Understanding Of Subjectivity As Ens Absolutum -- Ens Reale As A Sub-division Of Ens Primum Cognitum -- Esse Intentionale Again -- Passions Of The Soul: Sign-vehicles As Subjective Factors Versus Signs As Suprasubjective Relations -- Ontological Relation And Esse Intentionale -- The Knowledge Of Essences -- A Truth More Complex And Interesting. As Told By John Deely. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 205-230) And Index. Preface: Modernity's passing "Intentionality" Gilson and Aquinas Immateriality and intentionality the Latin development, Jacques Maritain, and the contemporary Specifying forms, impressed and expressed : terms without equivalence in modern philosophy The problem of thing and object Specifying forms, objects, and things : the problem of actual intelligibility "Abstraction" "Agere sequitur esse" the role of relation in the order of being Revolutionizing the understanding of subjectivity as ens absolutum Ens reale as a sub-division of ens primum cognitum Esse intentionale again "Passions of the soul" : sign-vehicles as subjective factors versus signs as suprasubjective relations Phantasiari as a semiosis independent of intellection Ontological relation and esse intentionale The knowledge of essences A truth more complex and interesting.