Vote on Theme for 2007 Meeting |
Second Biannual Symposium of the IACPS Scheduled for March 5th - 8th |
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₪ ₪ ₪ SAAP and Bakersfield, CA. Welcome Peirce Scholars |
₪ ₪ ₪ Registration for the SAAP meeting can be made on the SAAP website atwww.american-philosophy.org/. The SAAP will hold several Peirce sessions and many more devoted to Pragmatism in general. It is also one of the sponsors of the Peirce symposium. During the SAAP sessions, several side trips will be available, including a day trip to Sequoyah National Forest. For a complete listing and other details, check the SAAP website. Six Sponsors Six of the original founding sponsors of the symposium are back again this year. They are: 1) the SAAP; 2) the Charles S. Peirce Foundation; 3) the IACPS; 4) the ASRI; 5) the Southeast Regional Division of the ISI; and 6) The Pearson Foundation. Much of the support for the symposium comes from these sponsors. The symposium will kick off Saturday evening with registration and a reception. This will give participants a chance to renew old friendships and meet new colleagues. In addition, several officers of the SAAP are expected to drop by to meet the Peirce scholars. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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The 2003 IACPS Conference discussed many aspects of Peirce's writings. In a vote of the entire IACPS membership, Peirce's semiotic writings were selected as the theme for this year's symposium. Peirce's religious writings were the pre-selected theme of the 2003 symposium. Now, this year's attendees will continue their ongoing debate to determine those aspects of Peirce's writings most in need of further study. The final choice will be the theme of the 2007 symposium. Three Themes The 2003 discussion resulted in a tie vote between Peirce's semiotic writings and Peirce's metaphysical writings. Semiotic writings won out as this year's topic in an email vote of the entire IACPS membership. Two other topics received enough votes to indicate a possible chance for 2007. They are Peirce's psychological writings, and Peirce's logical writings. Altho these three topics – metaphysical, psychological, and logical writings – appear to be of greatest interest for the IACPS membership, any aspect of Peirce's vast writings is open for nomination. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
The city of Bakersfield, California and members of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, (SAAP), will welcome members of the IACPS, and their guests, to their Second Biannual Meeting and Symposium on March 5, in the Bakersfield Doubletree Hotel. In addition to the regular Biannual Business Meeting of the IACPS, the conference will feature the "Symposium on the Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce". The symposium will present papers by many prominent Peirce scholars. The symposium announcement and call for papers, and the registration form are attached to the same email by which you received this newsletter. The two guests of honor, Vincent Colapietro and Charls Pearson, will announce and discuss their new book project, The Essential Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce. SAAP Meeting The symposium lasts from March 5 until noon on March 8. However, attendees are encouraged to arrive early and attend the SAAP meeting from March 3 thru the 5th. |
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Wuhan University to Establish New Peirce Study Center Wuhan University has named Professor Zhu Zhi-fang to head its new "Wuhan University Center for Peirce Studies and Research in American Thought". Professor Zhu is a member of the university's Philosophy Department. The Peirce Study Center is partially modeled after the Fudan University Center for Dewey Studies and Research in Amer-ican Thought in Shanghai, China. The Peirce Study Center will join the IACPS when its website is up and running. (Continued on page 2 Wuhan Center) |
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What Is the IACPS All About? |
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The IACPS is a service organization whose only goal is to encourage communi-cation between and among centers for Peirce studies. Peirce study centers are primarily websites devoted exclusively to the works of Charles S. Peirce. They al-low scholars who are studying the works of Charles S. Peirce to make available their results to others who want to learn. There are no dues; the association is fund- ed primarily by the American Semiotics |
₪ ₪ ₪ Research Institute and the Pearson Foundation with the blessings and over-sight of the Charles S. Peirce Foundation. The IACPS supplies a web page listing all of the centers for Peirce studies, their links, their contact information, and their areas of special concentration in Peirce studies. It also publishes a news-letter to all of the centers updating them on (Continued on page 2 IACPS) |
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IACPS Website |
Known Peirce Study Centers Listed |
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Under Expansion After completing development of Communications of the IACPS, the IACPS newsletter, work began in earnest on the IACPS website. The new IACPS website has been given a home as a section of the Charles S. Peirce Foundation website. The Peirce Foundation is a sponsor of the IACPS. A special URL (web address) has been ob-tained giving access directly to the IACPS homepage. The website describes the discipline of Peirce studies, the role of the IACPS, and the function of Peirce study websites in general. It also lists all of the known Peirce study sites, along with their links, their contact information, and a special page for each Peirce Study Center giving its areas of special concentration in Peirce studies and other items of special interest for that study site. The website can temporarily be accessed by going to peircefoundation.org and clicking on the IACPS button. The permanent address, IACPS.org, will be available as soon as the present expansion program is complete. The expansion was made possible by the availability of a new web host for the peircefoundation.org domain with better web design capabilities. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
The following is a list of all websites known by the IACPS to be devoted to the study of some aspects of the life of Charles S. Peirce. We know that not all are includ-ed. See the article below and please ac-cept our apologies. IACPS is not responsible for any broken links. If you encounter any, we would appreciate being updated. If you know of any Peirce Study websight not listed here, we would apprec-iate any information you could provide. |
₪ ₪ ₪ Peirce Study Centers Acervo Bibliografico Peirceano Address Not Known American Semiotics Research Institute DrCharls@ComCast.Net Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway www.members.door.net/arisbe/ Arisbe Castellano www.comunicarte.com.ar/peirce Beijing Normal Univ. Philosophy Dept. WCBwg@Public.East.Cn.Net Center for Applied Semiotics www.Indiana.Edu/~Sign/ Centro de Estudos Peirceamos www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/cepe/ Charles S. Peirce Society, the www.peircesociety.org Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 0512@IHW.Com.Cn Conceptual Graphs www.hum.auc.dk/cg/ Digital Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce digitalpeirce.org/home.htm Fudan Center for Peirce's Relig. Writings Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos www.unav.es/gep/ (Continued on page 3 Study Centers) |
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How to Register Your Peirce Website The above article lists all the Peirce websites known to the IACPS. However, it is strongly felt that this list is not com-plete. The IACPS sincerely apologizes to any person and/or organization with a website devoted to Charles S. Peirce and/ or his works that is not included in the list. We know, for instance, that no sites are listed for any place in the mid-east, Af-rica, India, Japan, or Eastern Europe. If you have, or know of, a website devoted to the study of some aspect of Charles Peirce, please send an email to Charls Pearson, DrCharls@ComCast.Net, giving us the information. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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Six Founding Sponsors Return for 2nd Symposium ₪ ₪ ₪ Work Greatly Appreciated Six of the original founding sponsors of the Biannual Peirce Symposium returned to help develop this year's conference. This is a necessary task, involving much time, effort, and money. Their assistance is greatly appreciated. The six sponsors include: 1) Society for the Advancement of Ameri- can Philosophy, (SAAP), provided pro-motion and advertising on their website and in their newsletter, and helped nego-tiate with the Bakersfield Doubletree Hotel. 2) Charles S. Peirce Foundation, (CSPF), provided institutional and organizational help and supplied session leaders for the symposium. (Continued on page 3 Sponsors) |
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Interested in Establishing a Peirce Study Center? Do you have a special area of interest in Peirce studies? One that is not suffic-iently represented by any other Peirce stu-dy center on the web? IACPS will help you get started. Just email a short message of interest to the attention of Charls Pear-son at DrCharls@ComCast.Net. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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IACPS (Continued from page 1) the latest activities in the world of Peirce studies. This will help to keep them in-formed of who's doing what and where. It is also intended to facilitate direct commu- nication between the centers themselves. An international biannual conference will be held in alternate years. The American Semiotics Research Institute will supply all labor involved in web design and newsletter publishing, and the Pearson Foundation will cover all costs involved. The net result of this is that all centers, no matter what their bud-gets and foreign exchange problems, may register with the IACPS at no cost and no obligation. ₪ ₪ ₪ | |||
Wuhan Center (Continued from page 1) Zhu said that he expects planning and development of the center to take about two years. The center will specialize in the translation of Peirce's writings into Chinese and the spread of information about Peirce's work thruout China. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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Latest Word from PEP ₪ ₪ ₪ |
Colapietro and Pearson To Edit Peirce's Essential Semiotic Writings One of the main goals of the "Sym-posium on the Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce" is to announce the second volume in an ongoing series titled "The Essential x Writings of Charles S. Peirce". Each volume in the series will fill in the x with its own special topic in the vast corpus of Peirce's writings. The new volume will be titled "The Essential Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce" and will be edited by our two guests of honor, Vincent Colapietro and Charls Pearson. Uses PEP Resources The book will make available Peirce's original writings on signs, semiotics, and semiosis. Many older commentaries make use of the Collected Papers edition of Peirce's writings and deal with semiotics in a fragmentary and unsystematic way. The new work will make use of the more recent results of the Peirce Edition Project. The Colapietro-Pearson volume will bring the most important of Peirce's writings on semiotics together into one easily accessible place, organized systematically, and in chronological order. This will make them available before they would appear in their chronological sequence in the PEP series. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
IACPS Membership Grows to Twenty-eight The IACPS added four new websites and lost two since the last biannual meeting. This brings the current membership to twenty-eight websites. Two of the new centers are associated with the Peirce Edition Project. PEP(Bamberg) is headed by Helmut Pape and will edit W25, containing Peirce's Lowell Lectures of 1903. PEP(UQAM) is headed by François Latraverse. The UQAM Center will edit W7, containing the articles written by Peirce for the Century Dictionary. First African Center The first African website devoted to Peirce studies is "Peirce Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal" headed by Arnold Shepperson of that university's Culture, Communication, and Media Studies Department. The fourth new center is the Instituto Online de Semiotica headed by Juan de Morentin. It specializes in Peircean logic and semiotics within the scope of the social sciences with special attention to the needs of Spanish scholars. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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Nathan Houser reports that volume eight of the Chronological Writings edition is very near completion and will be in bookstores before the end of this year. He also said that work is progressing very well on volume nine. In the meantime, work is also progressing on volume seven, which is being edited in Canada, and volume twenty-five, which is being edited in Germany. Improved Facilities The Peirce Edition Project has just moved into new space in the IUPUI Institute for American Thought. The new space brings the editing for the Peirce Edition, the Santayana Edition, and the Douglas Edition into closer proximity with each other. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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Study Centers (Continued from page 2) Hong Kong Univ. Dept. of Comp. Lit. Site Under Development Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism Instituto Online de Semiotica www.semiotica-on-line.com.ar Intern. Assoc. Centers for Peirce Studies Site Under Development Nijmegen C.S. Peirce Study Center www.kun.nl/fil-beta/peirce-en.html Open Uni./Hong Kong School of Soc. Stu. Site Under Development Peirce Edition Project (IUPUI) www.IUPUI.edu/~peirce/ Peirce Edition Project (Bamberg) Site Under Development Peirce Edition Project (UQAM) www.pep.uqam.ca/ Peirce Project: Conceptual Graphs users.bestweb.net/~sowa/cg/ Peirce Studies at CCMS Site Under Development Peirce Telecommunity Project members.door.net/arisbe/menu/people Peking University Philosophy Dept. Site Under Development Theologic. Res. Grp. in C.S. Peirce's Phil. Site Under Development Virt. Centre/Peirce Stud. @ Univ. Helsinki www.helsinki..fi/science/commens/ ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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Sponsors (Continued from page 2) 3) International Association of Centers for Peirce Studies, (IACPS), hosted the conference and its members chose the theme for the Second Biannual Conference. 4) American Semiotics Research Institute, (ASRI), provided the labor, time, and ef-fort required to organize the conference and carry out all negotiations. 5) Southeastern Regional Division of the International Semiotics Institute, (SISI), provided international support for the conference as well as housing in Atlanta for the conference planning staff. 6) The Pearson Foundation, (PF), supplied the conference staff and underwrote all expenses. The IACPS was very fortunate to have such a supportive group of sponsors for its conference and symposium. We wish to thank each and every one of them most sincerely. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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Legas Books to Publish IACPS Symposium Proceedings Series Legas Publishing, of Ottawa, Canada, has agreed to publish the proceedings for the IACPS Biannual Symposium Series. The series is titled "Studies of the Essential Writings of Charles S. Peirce" and is edited by Charls Pearson. This year's volume will be titled "Studies in the Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce". The 2003 volume, Studies in the Religious Writings of Charles S. Peirce, is on display in the book exhibit area and is available for sale at the registration desk. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
Book Drive to Help Peirce Study Centers Thruout China |
Schedule of Upcoming Peirce Conferences Many conferences devoted to Peirc-ean topics are scheduled for the upcoming months. Among them, the following are known. Details can usually be obtained by going to the website of the sponsoring org-anization. 2005 SAAP-05 in Bakersfield, Mar. 3-5. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. IACPS-05 in Bakersfield, Mar. 5-8. Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Centers for Peirce Studies. 2005 topic is "Symposium on the Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce". Meets in conjunction with SAAP (see above). Beijing Conference on Peircean Philosophy in Beijing, China, Jun. 1-7. Sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Chinese National Center for Research in the Philosphy of Science. ISS-05 in Imatra, Finland, Jun. 11-19. International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies. IPrA-9 in Riva del Garda, Italy, Jul. 10-15. Ninth International Pragmatics Conference. SSA-05 in Pensacola, October of 2005. Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. EAPA-05 in New York City, Dec. 27-30. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. CSPS-05 in New York City, Dec. 27-30. Annual Meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society 2006 SAAP-06 in March of 2006. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. SSA-06 in October 2006. Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. EAPA-06 in Washington, D.C., Dec. 2006. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. CSPS-06 in Washington, D.C., Dec. 2006. Annual Meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
PEPEP@IUPUI |
The bookshelves of most Chinese universities are empty. There are many reasons for this con-dition. There are, of course, all the stand-ard ones like budgetary restrictions, lack of funds, and so on. But the main reason is the "Great Leap Forward" movement which caused all the books to be removed from most universities and burned. And since most Peirce study centers in China are associated with universities, this leaves the study centers with a great need for books of all kinds. The Need Is Great To combat this problem, Charls Pear-son has organized a book drive. Books of all kinds, but mainly in the area of logic, semiotics, and Peirce studies, are solicited. Books may be new or used, hard or soft bound, textbooks or monographs, author's copies, publishers' remainders, duplicates, or even multigraphed copies of works you are developing for publication. Books may be sent to Dr. Pearson at 1367 Northview AvNE.; Atlanta, 30306. The next distribution of books will be made in May on Dr. Pearson's next tour of Chinese universities. When interviewed by CIACPS, Dr. Pearson said, "Any and all materials will be useful, since the need is so great." ₪ ₪ ₪ |
The Pearson Foundation, Inc., (PFI), one of the sponsors of the IACPS, has issued a $150,000 challenge grant to inaugurate the Permanent Endowment for the Peirce Edition Project at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, to be known by the triple palindrome, PEPEP@IUPUI. "The PEPEP is designed to make up for the drop-off in funding from various government organizations", said Joe Brent, chair of the PEP Endowment Drive. NEH, the National Endowment for the Humanities, no longer gives money for any critical edition. Nathan Houser, managing director of the PEP praised the grant and said, "It is now more necessary than ever to finance the publication of Peirce's papers from within the Peirce community itself." Donations Matched As a special inducement to raise money from within the IACPS, the "Com-munity of Peirce Websites", the Pearson Foundation will match, dollar for dollar, any donations from, or on behalf of, any Peirce study center. In keeping with the theme of triadicity, the endowment goal is $3,000,000. Checks should be made out to the In-diana University Foundation, (or IUF), f/b/o PEPEP@IUPUI, and mailed to School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI, Indian-apolis, In. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
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Information Solicited on Funding and Scholarships for Peirce Study One of the greatest needs of every Peirce Study Center is support money. This includes grant funds to support website development and scholarships for the students and faculty. The IACPS is tracking down sources for such grants and scholarships. It is in contact with both the NSF and the NEH. Anyone with information on other sources of grant money or scholarships for Peirce study is urged to contact Charls Pearson at DrCharls@ComCast.Net. ₪ ₪ ₪ |
IACPS Negotiates for Electronic Publication of Peirce Articles At the request of the many Peirce websites belonging to the IACPS, it has begun negotiations with several publishers to allow IACPS members to publish articles about Peirce either directly on their website, or on CD ROM. IACPS started with Legas Publishing of Ottawa, Canada, publishers of Studies in the Religious Writings of Charles S. Peirce. Other publishers are gradually being added to the ongoing negotiations. ₪ ₪ ₪ |