In Semiotics in Ethics and Caring, Susan Petrilli introduces what she calls a detotalizing method as a necessary epistemological and ethical stance for contemporary semiotics. This method emerges from a critique of totalizing models of knowledge and communication, particularly those associated with globalization, technicism, and disciplinary separatism. Against these tendencies, Petrilli proposes a mode of inquiry capable of accounting for…
Tag: Cognitive Semiotics
Cognitive Semiotics: Knowing the World Through Signs
Cognitive semiotics addresses a fundamental question: How can we come to know the world through signs and languages? This question lies at the heart of several debates in semiotics, philosophy, and cognitive science, especially those concerning subjectivity, representation, belief, perception, imagination, social cognition, mind, and language. The term “cognitive” is not intended to contrast with emotion or…

