Introduction to the Deely Reader:

“From Realism to Semiotics”

by  Paul Cobley, Editor

Section I: Change and Process in the Physical Universe

First Reading, from April 1966

“The Emergence of Man:

an inquiry into the operation of natural selection in the making of man”

Section II: Ethics

Second Reading, from 1969

“Evolution and Ethics”

Third Reading, from 2006

“Evolution, Semiosis, and Ethics:

Rethinking the Context of Natural Law”,

with an Appendix on Immortality

Section III: Human and Animal: Zoösemiotics

Fourth Reading, from 1971

“Animal Intelligence and Concept-Formation”

Section IV: Logic

Fifth Reading, from 1981

“The Relation of Logic to Semiotics”

Section V: Objectivity

Sixth Reading, from 1971

“The Myth as Integral Objectivity”

Seventh Reading, from 2001

“Semiosis and Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt”

with an Editor’s Appendix

overview of Deely’s four-stage treatment of umwelt

Section VI: Mental Events

Eighth Reading, from 1978

“Semiotic and the Controversy over Mental Events. The Idealist Root of Husserl’s Phenomenology in Brentano”

Section VII: Historical Perspective

Scholastic Realism in the Transition to Postmodernity

Ninth Reading, from 1994

“What Happened to Philosophy between Aquinas and Descartes?”

Tenth Reading, from 1992

“Philosophy and Experience” with two Appendices:

Eleventh Reading, from 1995

“A Prospect of Postmodernity”

Afterword

Twelfth Reading, written for the volume, 2009

“On Purely Objective Reality”

Compilation of Sources Cited,

alphabetically arranged and historically layered

Chronological Bibliography of Deely Publications

Index