Member Profiles
Donna West
SUNY Cortland
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell University (1986)
M.A., Linguistics, Cornell University (1986)
B.A., Spanish, Roanoke College (1977)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Maritain’s Protocol for Visionary Insight.”
(2019) “Eidetic Images as Instruments of Suprasubjectivity: Insights from Maritain
and Deely.”
(2018) “Potency within the Sign Versus Thirdness within the Felt Interpretant:
Maritain’s Versus Peirce’s Semiotic.”
Publications
Books
(2022) Narrative as Dialectic Abduction. Springer-Verlag.
(2013) Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play. Springer-Verlag.
Select Academic Articles
(2022) “Linguistic and Visuospatial Chunking as Quantitative Constraints on Propositional Logic,” in Handbook of Cognitive Mathematics, ed. M. Danesi. Springer-Verlag.
(2022) “The operation of Peirce’s pheme in narrative contexts,” Contemporary Pragmatism 19 (4): 331-49.
(2022) “Dialogues, episodes, habits,” in Festschrift for Kalevi Kull, ed. D. Favareau. University of Lausanne Press.
(2022) “Surprise as the dawning of abductive rationality: Evidence from children’s narratives,” in Springer Handbook of Abductive Cognition, eds. L. Magnani, et al. Springer.
(2021) “Peirce’s vocation for consciousness: An evolutionary account,” Semiotica 243: 1-10.
(2021) “The element of surprise in Peirce’s double consciousness paradigm,” Semiotica 243: 11-47.
(2021) “Between two minds: The work of Peirce’s energetic interpretant,” Contemporary Pragmatism 18(2): 187-221.
(2021) “Primitives of Peirce’s concept of consciousness,” Cognitive Semiotics 14 (1): 1-8.
(2021) “Logical and Practical advantages of double consciousness,” Cognitive Semiotics 14 (1): 47-69.
(2021) “The Dialogic Nature of Double Consciousness and Double Stimulation: Implications from Peirce and Vygotsky,” Sign System Studies 49(1/2): 235-61.
(2021) “Double Consciousness to Scaffold Narrative Skills: A Peircean Developmental
Perspective,” Chinese Semiotic Studies 17 1): 123-42.
(2020) “Perfectivity in Peirce’s Energetic Interpretant,” Cognitio 21 (1): 152-164.
(2020) “Auditory Hallucinations as Internal Discourse: The Intersection between Peirce’s Endoporeusis and Double Consciousness,” Semiotics 2019: 129-45.