Announcement and Call for Papers

"Symposium on the Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce"

March 5-8, 2005
Doubletree Hotel – Bakersfield, California
in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

• Symposium Information
• Registration
• IACPS Information

Sponsored by:

American Semiotics Research Institute
Charles S. Peirce Foundation
International Association of Centers for Peirce Studies
The Pearson Foundation
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Southeastern Regional Division of the International Semiotics Institute

Purpose:

The primary purpose of this symposium is to announce the initiation of a new project in Peirce studies, a book on the semiotic writings of Charles S. Peirce, to be co-edited by Vincent Colapietro and Charls Pearson.  It will assemble an international meeting of Peirce scholars, actively engaged in research on the topic of Peirce's semiotic writings, in order to focus attention on this neglected aspect of Peirce's thought and to help determine the contents of the forthcoming book.  This is also the second biannual meeting of the International Association of Centers for Peirce Studies.

Keynote Speakers:

• Vincent Colapietro, TBA.
• Charls Pearson, "An Explication of Peirce's Concept of the Interpretant Based on the Universal Sign Structure Theory (USST)"

Plenary Speakers:

• Nathan Houser, TBA.
• Charls Pearson, "Charles Peirce's Semeiotic and the Need for a Volume of his Essential Semi-otic Writings".

Submitted Papers:

This announcement is also a "Call for Papers" on any aspect of current research on the topic of Peirce's semiotic writings, or possibly on the topic of important future research that would be enabled by the publication of this book.

A short (one page) abstract plus a short biosketch should be sent to

Charls Pearson
1367 Northview Av NE 
404-892-1721
Atlanta, 30306, USA 
DrCharls@ComCast.Net

before the February 27, 2005 deadline.  Email submissions are preferred.  All papers delivered at the symposium will be included in the symposium proceedings volume to be published as Studies in the Semiotic Writings of Charles S. Peirce.  Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium, Studies in the Religious Writings of Charles S. Peirce published by Legas Press, will be available.  More details and information at DrCharls@ComCast.Net.