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CECCS's Technical Reports are pre-print publications designed to
spread the researches conducted by the Center. Works on the interface Cognitive
Science/Semiotics developed by other researchers are also welcome.
Editorial Board:
Rogério Costa (COS/PUC-SP, São Paulo,
Brazil)
Priscila Farias (COS/PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)
Floyd Merrell (Purdue University, Indiana,USA)
João Queiroz (COS/PUC-SP, São Paulo,
Brazil)
Breno Serson (COS/PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil)
Cadernos do CECCS nº1
[december 1996]
Title: Pensamento analógico e o fundamento»
do signo peirceano [Analogical thought and the Peircean concept of the
ground» of a sign]
Authors: Priscila Farias, Breno Serson and João
Queiroz
"Pensamento analógico e o 'fundamento' do signo peirceano",the
first paper published by Cadernos do CECCS, is part of the research conducted
by CECCS's Group for Research on Analogy and
Artificial Creativity.
The Group works with the hypothesis that some concepts from Peircean
Semiotics, such as ground,abduction,semiosis and iconicity may provide
new insights into recent research on analogical thought and artificial
creativity.
Summary:
Some concepts from Peirce's Semiotics - such as those of a triadic
sign, the ground of a sign and semiosis - are employed to analyze recent
approaches to analogical thought (basically those given in Hofstadter et
al.1995 and Holyoak & Thagard 1995). After a brief description of the
COPYCAT computer program and the multiconstraint theory,
we show how the above mentioned Peircean concepts may contribute to the
latest discussions on analogy-making and its computational modeling.
Cadernos do CECCS nº2
[june 1997]
Title: The Cognitive self under successive shocks
Author: Solomon Marcus
Transcription of a lecture given by prof. Solomon Marcus at CECCS
first meeting in august 1996.
Cadernos do CECCS nº3
[september 1997]
Título: If interpreters interpret interpretants
are those interpreters, themselves, interpretants interpreting interpreters?
Autor: Floyd Merrell
Abstract:
The split-brain phenomenon has enjoyed its share of notoriety, though
it has of necessity suffered various alterations due to unforeseen problems.
There is a correlation between this phenomenon and the function of C. S.
Peirce's three sign types, icons, indices, and symbols, a correlation that
has taken on increased importance with respect to the constant interaction
and exchange between the sign types rather than their functions being played
out on individual bases. This interaction and exchange, moreover, bears
on Peirce's "logic of discovery" by way of abduction, induction,
and deduction, and through implementation of his "pragmatic maxim,"
to demonstrate, ultimately, that sharp distinctions between mind and brain
and knower and known are rendered unfeasible.
Cadernos do CECCS nº4
[april 1998]
Title: Breaking out of egocentrisms and chauvinisms:
the many-layered process of building a modern mind / Rompendo egocentrismos
e chauvinismos: o processo multi-estratificado de construção
de uma mente moderna
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Translation: Priscila Farias
Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of
Cognitive Science and Director of the Center
for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Among his many books and articles, the best known is Gödel,
Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, awarded with the Pulitzer and the
American Book Award in 1980. Although some of his books have been translated
into many different languages, this is the first time a text by Hofstadter
is published in Portuguese.
The essay "Breaking out of Egocentrisms..." was written
in the spring of 1993, right after a trip to Italy, and remained unpublished
until now.
