58. Fibers of Abduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Preface ix
4. Table of contents xvii
5. Charles Sanders Peirce – Primary Sources and Abbreviations xxv
6. 1. Aesthetic Value in Peirce’s Theistic Naturalism 1
7. 2. Man, Word, and the Other 5
8. 3. Semiotic Gold at the End of Peirce’s Rainbow: on the Fallible Pursuit of Reality 13
9. 4. Testimony and the Self 21
10. 5. Against Pretend Doubt 27
11. 6. Motion and Thought – a Generic Metaphor 33
12. 7. Peirce on Realism and Nominalism: the Metaphysics and Ethics of a Community of Inquirers 39
13. 8. Peircean Inquiry and Secret Communication 45
14. 9. Peirce on Non-Accidental Causes of Belief 53
15. 10. Scientific Method and the Realist Hypothesis 57
16. 11. Logic is Rooted in the Social Principle (and vice versa) 63
17. 12. Reasoning is Communal in Method and Spirit 73
18. 13. The Bottomless Lake of Consciousness 81
19. 14. Physical Laws are not Habits, while Rules of Life are 87
20. 15. Semiosis: from Taxonomy to Process 95
21. 16. Is Peirce’s Fallibilism an Ethical Attitude? 105
22. 17. Peirce’s Fallibilism in the Context of the Theory of Cognition and the Theory of Inquiry 109
23. 18. Diagrams or Rubbish 115
24. 19. How does Cognition come from Chance? 121
25. 20. Peirce’s Graph of “a Sort of Equilateral Hyperbola” 127
26. 21. Icons and Indices Assert Nothing 131
27. 22. Bohemians, Like Me 137
28. 23. Peirce’s Evolutionary Thought 145
29. 24. Peirce’s Guess at the Sphinx’s Riddle: The symbol as the Mind’s Eyebeam 153
30. 25. Love as Attention in Peirce’s Thought 161
31. 26. A Person is Like a Cluster of Stars 165
32. 27. Crystal-Clearness: For the Second-Rates 169
33. 28. On the Nature of Rare Minds & Useless Things 177
34. 29. The Heart as a Perceptive Organ 187
35. 30. On the “Realistic Hypostatization of Relations” 193
36. 31. Peirce’s Role in the History of Logic: Lingua Universalis and Calculus Ratiocinator 201
37. 32. Pure Zero 207
38. 33. Peirce on Theory and Practice 213
39. 34. Peirce and the Discipline of Metaphysics 221
40. 35. Peirce’s First Rule of Reason and the Process of Learning 229
41. 36. Bridging Ancient and Contemporary Knowing 235
42. 37. Peirce’s Process Ontology of Relational Order 239
43. 38. The Degenerate Monkey 245
44. 39. On Digital Photo-Index 253
45. 40. Semiotic Propedeutics for Logic and Cognition 259
46. 41. The First Correlate 263
47. 42. Logic, Ethics and the Ethics of Logic 271
48. 43. Beauty and the Best 279
49. 44. Iconicity in Peircean situated cognitive Semiotics 283
50. 45. The Purloined Inkstand 291
51. 46. A Very Short Version of Diagrammatic Reasoning 295
52. 47. Against Preposterous Philosophies of Mind 297
53. 48. Dream and Drama: Peirce's Copernican Turn 305
54. 49. Words that Matter: Peirce and the Ethics of Scientific Terminology 309
55. 50. The Curious Case of Peirce’s Anthropomorphism 315
56. 51. Peirce and the “Flood of False Notions” 325
57. 52. Peirce on Science, Practice, and the Permissibility of ‘Stout Belief’ 331
58. 53. Logic, Time, and Knowledge 335
59. 54. The Hypoicons 339
60. 55. The Phenomenon of Reasoning 347
61. 56. Peirce’s Abduction 353
62. 57. Terminology and Scientific Advancement 359
63. 58. Fibers of Abduction 365
64. 59. Experience and Education 373
65. 60. Peirce, Pragmatism, and Purposive Action 379
66. 61. Peirce’s Method of Work 385
67. 62. Metaphysics of Wickedness 393
68. 63. A Pragmaticist Appreciates the Past 399
69. 64. Peirce’s Logotheca 405
70. 65. Animals use Signs, They just don't know it 411
71. 66. A Purely Mathematical Way for Peirce's Semiotics 415
72. 67. Pragmatism, Cultural Lags and Moral Self-Reflection 421
73. 68. Peirce on Hegel, Pragmaticism, and “the Triadic Class of Philosophical Doctrines” 429
74. 69. Science as a Communicative Mode of Life 437
75. 70. Not an Individual, but a dual Self (at least) 443
76. 71. Science and Metaphysics 451
77. 72. The Semiosphere: A Synthesis of the Physio-, Bio-, Eco-, and Technospheres 457
78. 73. Peirce’s Persistent Interest in Economics 465
79. 74. The River of Pragmatism 475
80. 75. Visualizing Reason 483
81. 76. Self-Control, Self-Surrender, and Self-Constitution: The Large Significance of an “Afterthought” 487
82. 77. The Peircean Concept of Existential Graph and Discovery in Mathematics 493
83. 78. Peirce on Metaphor 503
84. 79. Peirce’s System of 66 Classes of Signs 507
85. 80. Peirce’s Philosophical Theology, Continuity, and Communication with the Deity 513
86. 81. The Play of Musement 521
87. 82. On Peirce’s Visualization of the Classifications of Signs: Finding a Common Pattern in Diagrams 527
88. 83. Truth and Satisfaction: The Gist of Pragmaticism 537
89. 84. Collateral Experience and Interpretation: Narrative Cognition and Symbolization 545
90. 85. “Don’t You Think So?” 553
91. 86. Collateral Experience as a Prerequisite for Signification 557
92. 87. Comparing Ideas: Comparational Analysis and Peirce’s Phenomenology 561
93. 88. Developing from Peirce’s Late Semeiotic Realism 569
94. References 575
95. Index 601