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What's your project, Monica? Martin On Apr 28, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Monica Hansen wrote: > Thank you so much! Definitely useful for my current project-a small part of > my dissertation, which is turning out to be a lot about semiotics, who knew? > I thought it was just about words and meaning. > > -----Original Message----- > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On > Behalf Of Martin Packer > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:22 PM > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity > Subject: Re: [xmca] sense and sensibility > > This from Morris' dissertation: Symbolism and reality: a study in the nature > of mind. > > "The essay will aim to show that thought and mind are not entities, nor even > processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of > reality, but are explicable as the functioning of parts of the experience of > an organism as symbols to that organism of other parts of experience. Being > then the symbolic portion *of* experience, the psychical or mental can > neither be sharply opposed to the rest of experience, nor identified with > the whole of experience. And since experience will be shown to be a portion > of reality, it follows that mind and reality can never be utterly separated > nor indiscriminately identified" (3-4) > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Martin Packer wrote: > >> Monica, >> >> Charles W. Morris (May 23, 1901, Denver, Colorado - January 15, 1979, > Gainesville, Florida) was an American semiotician and philosopher. George > Herbert Mead directed his doctoral dissertation on a symbolic theory of > mind, completed in 1925. His students included semiotician Thomas A. Sebeok. > For some years I've had his "Six Theories of Mind" (1932) on the shelf, and > recently found time to read it. (It's available on the web.) >> >> Martin >> > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca