Iconicity and Abduction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book consolidates and extends the authors' work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference. It emphasizes a pragmatic, experimental and fallibilist view of knowledge without sacrificing formal rigor. Within this context, the book focuses particularly on scientific knowledge and its prevalent use of mathematics. To find an answer to the question "What kind of experimental activity is the scientific employment of mathematics?" the book addresses the problems involved in formalizing abductive cognition. For this, it implements the concept and method of iconicity, modeling this theoretical framework mathematically through category theory and topoi. Peirce's concept of iconic signs is treated in depth, and it is shown how Peirce's diagrammatic logical notation of Existential Graphs makes use of iconicity and how important features of this iconicity are representable within category theory. Alain Badiou's set-theoretical model of truth procedures and his relational sheaf-based theory of phenomenology are then integrated within the Peircean logical context. Finally, the book opens the path towards a more naturalist interpretation of the abductive models developed in Peirce and Badiou through an analysis of several recent attempts to reformulate quantum mechanics with categorical methods. Overall, the book offers a comprehensive and rigorous overview of past approaches to iconic semiotics and abduction, and it encompasses new extensions of these methods towards an innovative naturalist interpretation of abductive reasoning.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 29
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Gianluca Caterina • Rocco Gangle
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-44244-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN:	3-319-44244-9
Barcode:	9783319442440

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