Habit, Competence, and Purpose: How to Make the Grades of Clarity Clearer

Abstract Habit plays a central role in Peirce's pragmatic account of human signification. What he means by meaning is, hence, fully intelligible only in reference to the role he accords to habit in this account. While the main focus of Peirce's critical attention is, especially in the matu...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy. - Indiana University Press, 1965. - 45(2009), 3, Seite 348-377
1. Verfasser: Colapietro, Vincent (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
Schlagworte:Habit Purpose Clarity (or Clearness) Definition Concepts Legisigns Pragmatism and Pragmaticism Philosophy Linguistics mehr... Behavioral sciences Social sciences Biological sciences
LEADER 01000caa a22002652 4500
001 JST08679566X
003 DE-627
005 20240623194620.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 150325s2009 xx |||||o 00| ||en c
024 7 |a 10.2979/TRA.2009.45.3.348  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)JST08679566X 
035 |a (JST)TRA.2009.45.3.348 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rakwb 
041 |a en 
100 1 |a Colapietro, Vincent  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Habit, Competence, and Purpose: How to Make the Grades of Clarity Clearer 
264 1 |c 2009 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Abstract Habit plays a central role in Peirce's pragmatic account of human signification. What he means by meaning is, hence, fully intelligible only in reference to the role he accords to habit in this account. While the main focus of Peirce's critical attention is, especially in the mature articulation of his thoroughgoing pragmatism, upon deliberately acquired habits, it is reasonable to suggest that often his concern is actually with something broader in one sense and narrower in another than individual or isolated habits. Any given disposition to act in certain ways in certain circumstances is taken by him to be an integral part of more or less integrated dispositions to act, feel, and even imagine: it is not taken to be operative apart from these other habits. In this sense, then, his concern is primarily with such integrated dispositions, not isolated habits. Thus, it is broader than the inattentive reader is likely to suspect. But, since those deliberately cultivated dispositions of rational agents that are at the center of Peirce's concerns are ones specifiable only in reference to some human practice such as experimental inquiry or everyday conversations, religious worship or artistic innovation, these dispositions are appropriately taken to be not simply habits in any way whatsoever but primarily habits to act in a competent or expert manner. More simply put, these deliberately cultivated dispositions are, in many instances, best conceived as competencies or expertise. While not all habits equip agents with expert or even competent ways of addressing the shifting demands of experiential situations (that is, while not all habits are instances of competence or expertise), all cases of competence and expertise are, at bottom, more or less harmoniously integrated clusters of flexible, nuanced, and alterable habits. Accordingly, any account of Peirce's conception of habit, especially as it pertains to his pragmatic theory of meaning, must bring into sharper focus the complex relationship among habits, competence, and expertise than Peirce and even his most imaginative expositors have done thus far. The aim of this paper is to push our investigation of the Peircean notion of human habituation in precisely this direction. Against an evolutionary background, the historical foreground of historically evolved and evolving practices will be sketched. Habits in their guise as competencies and expertise will then be seen in the context of such practices, with equal emphasis on initiation into a practice and the open-ended process of acquiring ever more refined expertise. 
540 |a © 2008 Charles S. Peirce Society 
650 4 |a Habit 
650 4 |a Purpose 
650 4 |a Clarity (or Clearness) 
650 4 |a Definition 
650 4 |a Concepts 
650 4 |a Legisigns 
650 4 |a Pragmatism 
650 4 |a and Pragmaticism 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphilosophy  |x Western philosophy  |x American philosophy  |x Pragmatism 
650 4 |a Linguistics  |x Theoretical linguistics  |x Pragmatics 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Cognitive processes  |x Habituation 
650 4 |a Social sciences  |x Communications  |x Semiotics 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Cognitive processes  |x Thought processes  |x Conceptualization 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Lucidity 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphilosophy  |x Western philosophy  |x American philosophy  |x Pragmatism  |x Pragmaticism 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphysics  |x Ontology  |x Reality  |x Phenomena 
650 4 |a Biological sciences  |x Biology  |x Zoology  |x Animals  |x Mammals  |x Primates  |x Humans 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphysics  |x Ontology  |x Ontological properties  |x Concept of being 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphilosophy  |x Western philosophy  |x American philosophy  |x Pragmatism 
650 4 |a Linguistics  |x Theoretical linguistics  |x Pragmatics 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Cognitive processes  |x Habituation 
650 4 |a Social sciences  |x Communications  |x Semiotics 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Cognitive processes  |x Thought processes  |x Conceptualization 
650 4 |a Behavioral sciences  |x Psychology  |x Cognitive psychology  |x Lucidity 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphilosophy  |x Western philosophy  |x American philosophy  |x Pragmatism  |x Pragmaticism 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphysics  |x Ontology  |x Reality  |x Phenomena 
650 4 |a Biological sciences  |x Biology  |x Zoology  |x Animals  |x Mammals  |x Primates  |x Humans 
650 4 |a Philosophy  |x Metaphysics  |x Ontology  |x Ontological properties  |x Concept of being  |x Articles  |x Philosophy 
655 4 |a research-article 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy  |d Indiana University Press, 1965  |g 45(2009), 3, Seite 348-377  |w (DE-627)368911314  |w (DE-600)2118100-7  |x 15589587  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:45  |g year:2009  |g number:3  |g pages:348-377 
856 4 0 |u https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/tra.2009.45.3.348  |3 Volltext 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.2979/TRA.2009.45.3.348  |3 Volltext 
912 |a GBV_USEFLAG_A 
912 |a SYSFLAG_A 
912 |a GBV_JST 
912 |a GBV_ILN_11 
912 |a GBV_ILN_20 
912 |a GBV_ILN_22 
912 |a GBV_ILN_24 
912 |a GBV_ILN_31 
912 |a GBV_ILN_39 
912 |a GBV_ILN_40 
912 |a GBV_ILN_60 
912 |a GBV_ILN_62 
912 |a GBV_ILN_63 
912 |a GBV_ILN_65 
912 |a GBV_ILN_70 
912 |a GBV_ILN_90 
912 |a GBV_ILN_100 
912 |a GBV_ILN_110 
912 |a GBV_ILN_120 
912 |a GBV_ILN_165 
912 |a GBV_ILN_206 
912 |a GBV_ILN_285 
912 |a GBV_ILN_374 
912 |a GBV_ILN_702 
912 |a GBV_ILN_1200 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2001 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2003 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2005 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2006 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2007 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2008 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2009 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2010 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2011 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2014 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2015 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2018 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2020 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2021 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2025 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2026 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2027 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2031 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2044 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2048 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2050 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2055 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2056 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2057 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2061 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2107 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2111 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2190 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2875 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2949 
912 |a GBV_ILN_2950 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4012 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4035 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4037 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4046 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4112 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4126 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4242 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4251 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4305 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4306 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4307 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4322 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4323 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4325 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4326 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4335 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4346 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4392 
912 |a GBV_ILN_4393 
951 |a AR 
952 |d 45  |j 2009  |e 3  |h 348-377