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First Principle of Pragmatics: Everything Evolves Amidst a Shared Problem

Post By James Williams 15th January 2021

This is an edited text from the Pragmatism and the Analytic-Continental Split Conference, University of Sheffield, ​09/08/17 – 11/08/17. I’d held it back, partly due to my reservations about the idea of a split, but I’m returning to it here, since its definition of pragmatics prepares for a later post…

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James is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University.

 

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  • Everything Arrives Unmade (Démontage III – through the Art of Cyril Pedrosa)
  • Paradox in Deleuze and Luhmann [Draft article]
  • Perishing and Démontage in the Works of Jean-Marc Rochette: a Process Philosophy of Life and Death (Démontage II)
  • Autopoiesis and Death (Semiology of Autopoiesis IX)
  • Can a Sign Be Used Autonomously? (Semiology of Autopoiesis VIII)
  • Time and One-way Events: Bande Dessinée as Démontage (Deleuze’s Timed Logic, VII; Démontage I)
  • Won’t be fooled again? Ezekiel Di Paolo and Enactive Autopoiesis: Semiology of Autopoiesis (VII)
  • Language and Social Systems: Semiology of Autopoiesis (VI)
  • Deleuze’s Timed Logic (VI) The Event and Time (English Draft of Version for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine)
  • Modes of Explanation: Semiology of Autopoiesis (V)

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