Peirce on Perception and Reasoning
From Icons to Logic
Edited by Kathleen A. Hull
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Richard
Kenneth Atkins
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© 2017 – Routledge
232 pages
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About the Book
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.
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