Hull / Atkins Peirce on Perception and Reasoning

From Icons to Logic
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-44463-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist. In this book, scholars from around the world examine the nature and significance of Peirce’s work on perception, iconicity, and diagrammatic thinking. Abjuring any strict dichotomy between presentational and representational mental activity, Peirce’s theories transform the Aristotelian, Humean, and Kantian paradigms that continue to hold sway today and, in so doing, forge a new path for understanding the centrality of visual thinking in science, education, art, and communication. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of issues related to Peirce’s theories, including the perception of generality; the legacy of ideas being copies of impressions; imagination and its contribution to knowledge; logical graphs, diagrams, and the question of whether their iconicity distinguishes them from other sorts of symbolic notation; how images and diagrams contribute to scientific discovery and make it possible to perceive formal relations; and the importance and danger of using diagrams to convey scientific ideas. This book is a key resource for scholars interested in Perice’s philosophy and its relation to contemporary issues in mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, semiotics, logic, visual thinking, and cognitive science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hull, Kathleen A.

Atkins, Richard Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. What Do We Perceive? How Peirce "Expands Our Perception" Aaron Wilson

2. Perception as Inference Evelyn Vargas

3. Inferential Modeling of Percept Formation: Peirces’ Fourth Cotary Proposition Richard Kenneth Atkins

4. "Things Unreasonably Compulsory": Hume and Peirce on Perceiving Necessity Catherine Legg

5. The Iconic Ground of Gestures: Peirce, Wittgenstein, and Foucault Rossella Fabbrichesi

6. Foundations for Semeiotic Aesthetics: Mimesis and Iconicity Kelly Parker

7. Semiotics, Schemata, Diagrams and Graphs: A New Form of Diagrammatic Kantism by Peirce Claudio Paolucci

8. The Chemistry of Relations: Peirce, Perspicuous Representations, and Experiments with Diagrams Chiara Ambrosio and Chris Campbell

9. Graphs as Images vs Graphs as Diagrams: A Problem at the Intersection of Semiotics and Didactics Michael May

10. C.S. Peirce and the Teaching of Drawing Seymour Simmons

11. What is Behind the Logic of Scientific Discovery? Aristotle and Charles S. Peirce on Imagination Christos Pechlivanidis

12. The Iconic Peirce: Geometry, Spatial Intuition, and Visual Imagination Kathleen Hull

13. Peirce’s Theory of Information and a New Diagrammatic Logic for Intensional and Extensional Syllogistic William James McCurdy

14. Two Dogmas of Diagrammatic Reasoning: A View from Existential Graphs Ahti-Viekko Pientarinen and Francesco Bellucci

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen A. Hull resides in Boston and taught for over a decade at New York University and Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research and publications have focused on Charles Sanders Peirce and pedagogy. She has won awards for teaching excellence, creative thought, and inspiring students with a love of learning.

Richard Kenneth Atkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of Peirce and the Conduct of Life: Sentiment and Instinct in Ethics and Religion (2016) and Puzzled?! An Introduction to Philosophizing (2015) as well as numerous essays.