Semiotics and Pragmatism

This collection of essays brings together a selection of some of the most important studies of Professor Ivo Assad Ibri about the work of Charles Sanders Peirce. In the last decades, Prof. Ibri made important contributions to Peirce studies by showing that the various individual aspects of Peirce's work actually form a coherent philosophical system, a metaphysical architecture, as he describes it in his previous book Kósmos Noetós (Springer, 2017). Now this new book brings together a selection of 24 articles and book chapters originally published in both Portuguese and English on different topics and aspects of Peirce's work, such as philosophy of art, heuristic logic, theories of beliefs and habits, objective idealism, pragmatism and pragmaticism.

'In recognizing Ivo Assad Ibri as one the leading exponents of qualitative interpretations of Peirce in the world today, I refer especially to Ibri's concentration on Peirce's later-phase metaphysical writings. Ibri's expertise will be seen to consist in his precise reformulations of Peirce's full-fledged philosophy, not just pursuing specialized minor topics.'

David A. Dilworth

Professor of Philosophy, Stonybrook University

'Ivo Ibri's collected essays brims with clarifying insights from beginning to end. He manages to reveal plenty of aspects of Peirce's thought from angles the traditional scholarship has not been equipped to notice. How not to miss such kairotic theoretical opportunities and how to exploit them to heuristic advantage is a lesson well taught in this outstanding book.'

André De Tienne

Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University

Ivo Assad Ibri is full professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the founder and director of the Center for Pragmatism Studies at his university and editor of the journal Cognitio.  His work is mainly focused on American pragmatism and German idealism. He published several essays on pragmatism and semiotics and a book on Peirce's metaphysics called Kósmos Noétos (Springer, 2017). He is fellow past president (2014 - 2016) of The Charles Sanders Peirce Society and honorary president of the Latin America Peirce Society.