HYLE: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry, 4-1, May 1998

Several of the papers in this journal (see the earlier volumes as well) suggest a possible role for semiotical analysis in application to the conceptions of the chemists, though it seems that the philosophy of chemistry knows of semiotic thus far only in the form of semiology. It is very suggestive material for somebody with a basis in semiotical conceptions to work from, though, and the material is philosophically interesting in other respects, too. Since Peirce was himself a chemist, the question naturally arises as to the extent to which his semiotical conceptions and perhaps his graphical logic as well may have some interesting origins in the rich iconographical traditions in chemistry, which go back into alchemical and occultist sources.

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