Stéphanie Walsh Matthews

• Professor (Associate) at Toronto Metropolitan University

Written by leading international experts, the chapters in this collection provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines related to the natural and technical sciences. The volume presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from mathem...

Ritual knots are symmetrical crisscrossing designs that appear in distant cultures around the world. Their independent emergence is plausibly due to shared features of human cognition and experience that such patterns represent. Since empirical investigation of this possibility is lacking in the literature, our aim is to open up this research area....

Lab Study Script and Protocols for manual tracing study using Tibetan knot pattern (Prime) and asymmetrical pattern (Anti-prime) and Control (non-tracing).

Core data sets analyzed for Studies 1 and 2 in "Testing symmetrical knot tracing for cognitive priming effects rules out analytic analogy". Note: In keeping with Ryerson University Research Ethics Board protocol #REB 2017-065, data sets are fully anonymized, revealing coded values only and removing all personal information and metadata peripheral...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a powerful new form of inquiry unto human cognition that has obvious implications for semiotic theories, practices, and modeling of mind, yet, as far as can be determined, it has hardly attracted the attention of semioticians in any meaningful analytical way. AI aims to model and thus penetrate mentality in a...

Dans l’espoir de concevoir un être qui n’en est pas un, le robot-humanoïde ressemble tout de même à celui qui l’a créé. La trace humaine guide tout le processus de création et, par la suite, marquera toutes ses interactions. Paradoxalement, il n’y a rien d’humain – outre peut-être l’esquisse de la forme – car le robot-humanoïde est une machine dont...

Toute quête identitaire nous conduit forcément à un questionnement sur nos origines. Qu’est-ce qui nous distingue de nos proches? Quels sont nos premiers traits humains apomorphes? Quelle est la première instance de notre humanité? Plus généralement, en tant qu’êtres vivants, de quelle manière sommes-nous propulsés vers l’humanisation? La trajectoi...

First of two volumes on the Semiotics of A. Greimas

Second of two special issues on Algirdas Greimas published in 219 of Semiotica.

Yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America

How did the Semiotic Animal come to be? Do semiotic analyses of possible evolutionary trajectories allow us to understand how the Semiotic Animal developed a need for meaning in its life? This paper discusses what role built environments have on semiosis and how they might impact on what can be called semiotic fitness over time. Through the lens of...

Front matter (Masthead, Preface and Table of Contents) for 2014 Yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America. xiv, 694 pp. To find signs of paradox, we need do little more than the odd thought experiment: briefly consider the (irreconcilable) implications of an utterance like “This statement is false” for instance. But signs of paradox range far be...

Canada’s relationship to semiotics has been one of engagement, isolation, continued interest, and convergence. Semiotics in Canada has existed for a considerable period of time and, recently, has made itself a niche in the academic landscape by focusing on applications in three specific fields-forensics, robotics, and mathematics. Through our surve...