Semiotics · Philosophy · Cognitive Science
Douglas Niño
Working within an approach called Agentive Semiotics, he studies the constitution of meaning in agents’ experience, its production, circulation, interpretation or consumption, and the resources involved in these processes. His research also examines applications of this approach in different fields and areas of social and cultural life.
His work connects with traditions such as phenomenology and American pragmatism, as well as specific areas within cognitive science, logic, semantics, the social sciences and the humanities.
Bogotá, Colombia
Current research
Meaning in the course of action
Current research develops Agentive Semiotics and Agentive Semantics. It examines how anticipation and execution relate to each other in activity and how agents organize and revise their models of events.
Explore Agentive SemioticsFeatured work
Abducing Abduction
Novel Perspectives on Peircean Abduction and Their Consequences for Contemporary Debates
A study of Peirce’s theory of abduction, its development and its place in contemporary discussions of inference and inquiry.
Publisher’s recordRecent publications
A selection, 2024–2025
- 2025
Book chapter
Abductive Cognition in Agentive Semiotics: A Proposal
Douglas Niño · Abductive Minds · Springer · pp. 137–157
- 2024
Journal article
Embodied agentive habits: between sedimentation and ongoing ground
Douglas Niño · Semiotica · 260 · pp. 83–117
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