John Poinsot Book order (chronological)

Originally published under title: Medieval philosophy redefined: Scranton [Pa.]: University of Scranton Press, 2010.

The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehensive rationale for the4 linking of semiosis at the levels of culture, society, and nature. As Deely suggests in his preface, the image of the modern semiotic universe is the same as that of astronomy in 1611 as suggested by John "Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; / All just supply, and all Relation." This short, cogent, philosophically oriented book outlines and analyzes the basic concepts of semiotics in a coherent, overall framework.

"From the 1930 Reiser edition (emended second impression) of the Ars logica, itself comprising the first two parts of the five part Cursus philosophicus of 1631-1635, by the same author."