Hull Kathleen A. - Peirce on perception and reasoning from icons to logic

This book contains original, insightful, and inspiring papers on important aspects of Peirces theory of perception, the role of icons and indices in reasoning, and diagrammatic reasoning more generally. This is most certainly a must-read book for anyone interested in the most recent work on the later Peirce, theories of perception, the connection between perception and semiotics, phenomenology, visual thinking, and the constitutive role of diagrams in logic and reasoning.

Cornelis de Waal, Indiana University
Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

In this book, scholars from around the world examine the nature and significance of Peirces work on perception, iconicity, and diagrammatic thinking. Abjuring any strict dichotomy between presentational and representational mental activity, Peirces theories transform the Aristotelian, Humean, and Kantian paradigms that continue to hold sway today and forge a new path for understanding the centrality of visual thinking in science, education, art, and communication. This book is a key resource for scholars interested in Peirces philosophy and its relation to contemporary issues in philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, semiotics, logic, visual thinking, and cognitive science.

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.

Edited by
Willem deVries, University of New Hampshire, USA, and
Henry Jackman, York University, Canada

1Intentionality and the Myths of the Given

Between Pragmatism and Phenomenology

Carl B. Sachs

2Richard Rorty, Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism

David E. McClean

3Pragmatic Encounters

Richard J. Bernstein

4Toward a Metaphysics of Culture

Joseph Margolis

5Gewirthian Perspectives on Human Rights

Edited by Per Bauhn

6Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics

Diana B. Heney

7Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy

Edited by David Pereplyotchik and Deborah R. Barnbaum

8Pragmatism and Objectivity

Essays Sparked by the Work of Nicolas Rescher

Edited by Sami Pihlstrm

9The Quantum of Explanation

Whiteheads Radical Empiricism

Randall E. Auxier and Gary L. Herstein

10Peirce on Perception and Reasoning

From Icons to Logic

Edited by Kathleen A. Hull and Richard Kenneth Atkins

Edited by
Kathleen A. Hull and
Richard Kenneth Atkins

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hull, Kathleen A., editor.
Title: Peirce on perception and reasoning : from icons to logic / edited by
Kathleen A. Hull and Richard Kenneth Atkins.
Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series:
Routledge studies in American philosophy ; 10 | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016053819 | ISBN 9781138215016 (hardback :
alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 18391914. |
Perception (Philosophy) | Iconicity (Linguistics) | Visualization.
Classification: LCC B945.P44 P47 2017 | DDC 121/.34dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016053819

ISBN: 978-1-138-21501-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-44464-2 (ebk)

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