Product Description: This book – written in collaboration with René Doursat, director of the Complex Systems Institute, Paris – adds a new dimension to Cognitive Grammars. It provides a rigorous, operational mathematical foundation, which draws from topology, geometry and dynamical systems to model iconic «image-schemas» and «conceptual archetypes»...read more

Product Description: In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant...read more

Product Description: The original French version of « Morphogenesis of Meaning was one of the important breakthroughs in cognitive semiolinguistic during the eighties. It provided a deep philosophical elaboration of Rene Thorn's Catastrophe Theory and exerted great influence on the main semiolinguistic schools in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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