Papers

Below you find a selection of my papers free to download and study

• “Biosemiotics as Material and Formal Ontology”

• ”Simple Animals and Complex Biology. The double von Uexküll inspiration in Cassirer’s philosophy”

• “Man the Abstract Animal: Diagrams, Abstraction, and the Semiotic Missing Link”

• "The Concept of Nature in Kant"

• "Natural Propositions: The Evolution of Semiotic Self-Control"

• “The Signifying Body. A Semiotic Concept of Embodiment”

• “A Natural Symphony? The Actuality of J. von Uexküll’s Bedeutungslehre for the Semiotics of Our Day

• Stjernfelt & SU Thomsen "Absolut Røde Mor"

• "Authenticities and their Conflicts: Genuine Challenges of Museology"

• "Vitalismen som problemløser, i Harald Bergstedts exempel"

• “La ligne carlaire. Det betydningsbærende i Barks’ streg”

•  "Glad to Be Alive: Stanley Kubrick's "Eye's Wide Shut""

• “Klaus Høeck - forfatterportræt”

• "Hed, massiv, kølig, porøs. København i forskellige hjemstavnsromaner - Katrine Marie Guldager og Jokum Rohde"

• “Thøger Larsen - forfatterportræt”

• BRÆNDTE BØGER I. "Kan man give en lussing uden selv at have nogen? Den mærkelige historie om fejden mellem de danske lutheranere og tidlig tysk oplysning"

• BRÆNDTE BØGER II. "Fritænkeren og radikalpietisten Dippel på bålet i Altona”

• BRÆNDTE BØGER III. "Landsforvisningen af en radikal livlæge - Struensees morfar ved Christian VIs hof"

• BRÆNDTE BØGER IV "Sjælevandring og verdensforbedring på bålet: Georg Schade. Optrævlingen af et dansk hemmeligt selskab i 1760"

• "Glemsomme steder"

• "Pressure on Press Freedom. The Current Religious War on Freedom of Expression”

• Mchangama og Stjernfelt "Publicitetens Tribunal – Michael Birckner, trykkefrihedens danske teoretiker"

• "Tolerance og Tonerance: Truslen mod det oplyste tolerancebegreb"

• "Stueplanten, der blev radikaler. Brandes' Kierkegaard-biografi - en ødelæggende hyldest"

• "The Struggle of Titans: Ernst Jünger and Ernst Cassirer: Vitalist and Enlightenment Philosophies of Technology in Weimar Germany"

• "Den dovne og den sløve. Cassirer-Heidegger diskussionen som prisme for modsætningen mellem livsfilosofi og erkendelsesteori"

• "Oplysningens begyndelse – afsløringen af de Tre Bedragere. En lille bog med stor effekt”

• Frederik Stjernfelt (og Søren Ulrik Thomsen): Kritik af den negative opbyggelighed

• Life Itself: Philosophy of Life and Conservatism

• Frederik Stjernfelt and Nikolaj Zeuthen "The Representation of Consciousness in Language and Fiction A Cognitive Theory of Enunciation"

• “Der findes ikke længere ulve i England. Læseren og det litterære værks generalitet”

• "Five Types of Schematic Iconicity in the Literary Text - an Extension of the Ingardenian Viewpoint"

• Frederik Stjernfelt and Nikolaj Zeuthen "Simultaneous Narration: A Closer Look. Comments On A Recent Narrative Phenomenon"

• Bundgaard & Stjernfelt (eds.) "Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art"

• "Swampman encounters an Immediate Object. Social and psychological reductions of signs: some discussions of the critics of Natural Propositions"

• "Blocking evil infinites. A Note on a Note on a Peircean Strategy"

• "Corollarial and Theorematical Reasoning With Diagrams"

• Diagrammatology. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics, 2006 preprint version

• “Moving Pictures of Thought. Diagrams as Centerpiece in a Peircean Epistemology”

• "Dicisigns: Peirce's Semiotic Doctrine of Propositions"

• "Dicisigns and Habits. Implicit propositions and habit-taking in Peirce's pragmatism"

• "How to Learn More: An Apology for a Strong Concept of Iconicity”

• "Iconicity of Logic - and the Roots of the “Iconicity” Concept"

• "Operational and Optimal Iconicity in Peirce's Diagrammatology"

• “Peirce som neokantianer?”

• "Strategies of Research: Peirce's Enlightenment Maxims"

• "Who is Michael Wo-Ling Ptah-Hotep Jerolomon? Literary Interpretation as Thought Experiment”

• "Phenomenology and Logic in Peirce"

• "Cows, Red Cows, and Red Herrings: A Graphical Experiment Addressing Natural Classes in the Young Peirce" (LARGE DOC)
• Emmeche Køppe & Stjernfelt: "Levels, Emergence, and Three Versions of Downward Causation"

• Emmeche Køppe & Stjernfelt: "Explaining Emergence. Towards an Ontology of Levels"

• "Schematic Aspects of an Aesthetics of Diagrams"

• Østergaard & Stjernfelt "Diagrammatic Problem Solving"

• ”How Do Pictures Act? Two Semiotic Aspects of Picture Activity”

• "Christ Levitating and the Vanishing Square: Diagrams in Picture Analysis"

• "Forgotten Twins. Reason and Visuality"

• "Small Outline of a Theory of the Sketch"

• "Two Iconicity Notions in Peirce’s Diagrammatology”

• "Den islamistiske sympatisør-sump. Hvem er det vi er oppe imod?"

• "Dialog-mysteriet. Mareridt: Er Aarhus Universitet blevet ført bag lyset af en Dan Brown-agtig mystikerkult vendt imod den moderne verden?"

• ”Islamisme - en højrefløjsextremisme?”

• "Karisma og proto-religion i moderne populærkultur"

• "Secularism is a Fundamentalism! The background to a problematic claim”

• Baldr og verdensdramaet i den nordiske mytologi

• “Categories, Diagrams, Schemata. The Grasping of Ideal Objects in Husserl and Peirce”

• "Dicisigns and Cognition: The Logical Interpretation of the Ventral-Dorsal Split in Animal Perception"

• Østergaard & Stjernfelt "FONK! HONK! WHAM! OOF! REPRESENTATION OF  EVENTS IN  CARL  BARKS  - AND IN THE  AESTHETICS OF COMICS IN  GENERAL"

• "Fabeldyret som tankekategori"

•  "Into the Picture: Husserl's Picture Theory – and Two Types of Pictures"

• "Peirce and Cassirer – the Kroisian Connection. Vistas and open issues in John Krois’ philosophical semiotics"

• "Mereology. Parts and Wholes in Phenomenology and Semiotics”

• Review of Ponzio and Petrilli "Thomas Sebeok. An Introduction"

• Bundgaard & Stjernfelt "René Thom’s Semiotics and its Sources"

• Review of Eco "Kant and the Platypus"

• Review of John Deely: "Four Ages of Understanding"

• "Spatial Cognition Strategies in Map and Diagram Reasoning”

• “Symbol and Schema in Neo-Kantian Semiotics - The Philosophies of Cassirer and Peirce: Contributions to a Semiotics Implying an Epistemology”

• "The Generality of sSigns: The Actual relevance of Anti-Psychologism"

• "Thermodynamic metaphors: A discussion of basic ideas in cognitive semantics examplified in a hot topic"

• Bundgaard, Østergaard, Stjernfelt "Waterproof Fire Stations. Conceptual Schemata and Cognitive Operations Involved in Compound Constructions"

• "Grader af gader. Det offentlige rum i Sarajevo"

• “The Man Who Knew Too Much: Espionage in Reality and Fiction: Regional Ontology and Iconicity"

• Nils Gunder Hansen & Frederik Stjernfelt "Fodens kultivering og det stiliserede slag. Fodbold - spil, struktur og udvikling"

• "Liberal Multiculturalism as Political Philosophy: Will Kymlicka"

• "Life Itself – Philosophy of Life and Conservatism"

• “Looks Like Rain. Lille note om avalens, poesi og totalitarisme”

• "Locale, street, square – a naive theory of the city"

• "DET ONDE BLØDDYR. Ondskaben oplever en renæssance – men findes den?"

• "Too Little culture - too Much Culture: The Strange Coexistence of two Opposite Notions of Culture"

• "What is Culturalism? The Anatomy of a Contemporary Disease in Academia and Politics"

• “Den xenofobiske arvesynd. Xenofobi som problem i videnskab og politik - forsøg på et overblik”