Peirce On Perception And Reasoning: From Icons To Logic (routledge Studies In American Philosophy)
by Kathleen A. Hull /
2017 / English / EPUB
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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.
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.