Traditional doctrine finds limitations in doxastic dialectics—the exchange of opinions. This book affirms doxa’s cognitive autonomy, arguing that it opens conditions for an alternative truth and is the exclusive procedure for establishing the fundaments of axiology.
Rodica Amel
Rodica Amel holds a doctorate in Philological Sciences, and taught semiotics, pragmatics and Hebrew in the Department of Foreign Languages at Bucharest University, Romania. She is active in the fields of modern linguistics, pragmatics, semiotics, and philosophy of language, and has previously served as Researcher in the Linguistic Institute of Bucharest and at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Her publications include “Saturation Levels in Dialogue” in Kodikas (1989); “The Antithetic Reasoning” in Manuscriptum (1993); “Relevance and Justification” in Semiotica (1994); “Listening and the Well-Tempered Controversy” in Philosophy Study (2017); and “Face and Mask” in Kodikas (2018), as well as the books Conversational Complicity (2016) and Doxastic Dialectics (2019).
Author's books
The Hermeneutical Turn in Semiotics
This book explores the ontological foundation of signs, a semiotic perspective that opens the way to culture. It extends the reader’s understanding by moving beyond classical definitions of the “sign” and will appeal to anyone concerned with understanding human nature.