Maria Asuncion L. Magsino

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

  • Linguistics and social ethics
  • Peircian semiotics
  • Biosemiotics
  • Human sexuality

Maria Asuncion L. Magsino

Assistant Professor
  • Linguistics and social ethics
  • Peircian semiotics
  • Biosemiotics
  • Human sexuality
Dr. Marion L. Magsino is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, where she oversees the operations of the Junior College program (senior high school) and the Humanities and the Liberal Arts programs. She earned her master’s degree and doctorate in Philosophy from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her dissertation entitled “A Semiotic Analysis of Human Sexuality using a Peirce-Sebeok Framework” markedly positions her research interests along the lines of linguistics and social ethics, particularly pursuing issues on Peircian semiotics, biosemiotics, and human sexuality. Among her published articles are “Peirce, Sebeok and the Semiotic Reformation on Contemporary Communications” and “A Biosemiotic Modeling of the Body-”Self” Synechism”.

Publications

  • “A Biosemiotic Modeling of the Body-“Self” Synechism” in Mind and Matter – Challenges and Opportunities in Cognitive Semiotics and Aesthetics, InTech Open Access (2021)
  • “Human Sexuality in the Language of the Body in John Paul II: A Semiotic Analysis,” Synergeia (2020)
  • “Peirce, Sebeok and the Semiotic Reformation on Contemporary Communications,” Studia Gilsoniana (2018)
  • Jürgen Habermas’ Between Facts and Norms,” Synergeia (2016)
  • On the Passions of the Human Soul in Male and Female” CAS Review (August 2013)
  • “An Inquiry into Platonic Thought on Temperance,” Synergeia (2012)

Professional Affiliation

  • Since 2009, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
  • Since 2018, Charles S. Peirce Society

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