Sure, I'll follow up Monday or Tuesday.
From: Spooner, Brian J [mailto:spoo...@sas.upenn.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 11:34 PM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: [biosemiotics:9231] Re: Transcending Scientism - print version ready I would be grateful if you would email me a pdf of your book/ Thanks brian spooner _____ From: Stephen Jarosek <sjaro...@iinet.net.au> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:41:46 PM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: [biosemiotics:9225] Transcending Scientism - print version ready now. List, Towards the end of last year I posted here to advise that my eBook was published. Some members contacted me to ask when the print version is available. It's available now. A more detailed synopsis of the book than that already provided: 1) Emphasis is on the PRACTICAL interpretation of the semiotics of CS Peirce. What does Peircean semiotics imply for how we should live our lives? Intended for general readership and as such, it omits detailed scholarly discourse; 2) The FIRST CHAPTER is about the failure of the Darwinian paradigm, attributable to its failure to address entropy. Peircean semiotics is in a much better position to address entropy because of imitation. Imitation as a variation on the pragmatic maxim, and how organisms define the things that matter; 3) We touch on quantum semiotics - semiosis at the atomic-molecular level, and how it relates to entanglement, and why DNA entanglement is essential to understanding how life works. Unlike my earlier unsubstantiated conjectures that I introduced in this forum, however, this time I provide robust evidence to substantiate the DNA entanglement conjecture; 4) The SECOND CHAPTER is about exposing Dukkha. Dukkha is a term from Buddhism, loosely translated as "suffering" or "imperfection." Exposing dukkha is about exposing the breakdown in contemporary culture, and why we need to "flee this burning house" (the burning house parable familiar to Buddhists - to learn to see culture as it is, thus enabling one, in effect, to transform to a different kind of "human organism"). Exposing dukkha... how dukkha relates to the three categories, expressed in terms of habit, association and motivation; 5) Throughout the book, we address broken science, and how a broken materialist paradigm relates to broken culture. Of course this relates directly to semiotics... how a broken science paradigm relates to pragmatism and epistemology, by informing cultures about the things that matter; 6) Imitation - knowing how to be - the most essential pragmatism, and how every organism defines the things that matter. The importance of narrative and the company that we keep; 7) In its practical emphasis, the book relates also to politics and religion; 8) Scientism as religion. There is nothing "objective" about materialist science at all, as it will never overcome the subjectivity that is integral to the pragmatic maxim. If anyone is having difficulty obtaining the ebook online, contact me and I'll forward a file version in either epub or pdf format, no charge. The full title of the book: Transcending Scientism - Mending Broken Culture's Broken Science Print version: https://www.amazon.com/Transcending-Scientism-Mending-Cultures-Science/dp/09 77526119 eBook version: https://www.amazon.com/Transcending-Scientism-Mending-Cultures-Science-ebook /dp/B01M14TCVR sj
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