Abducing Abduction
Novel Perspectives on Peircean Abduction and Their Consequences For Contemporary Debates
Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 13 July 2026
- ISBN 9783032105790
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages824 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XLVI, 824 p. 10 illus., 1 illus. in color. 700
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This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Peirce’s theory of abduction, tracing its evolution across five distinct periods from 1864 to 1914. It reconstructs Peirce’s shifting treatment of hypothesis—from its early separation from induction, to its redefinition as an “induction of characters,” its association with Aristotle’s apagoge, and its eventual reformulation as “retroduction.” Bridging historical scholarship and logical analysis, it clarifies abduction’s justification, validity, and its formal, epistemic, and methodological characteristics that distinguish it from Peircean induction and deduction, while also analyzing the place of pragmatism within these inferential forms. It further examines how Peirce’s ideas have been interpreted and adapted in contemporary debates in philosophy of science, logic, and cognitive science, including inference to the best explanation, artificial intelligence, practical logic, and eco-cognitive approaches. The concluding chapter introduces the Agentive Semiotics framework, showing how Peirce’s insights illuminate abduction as a dynamic, agent-driven process for restoring cognitive manageability when the available and activated information becomes disrupted.
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Introduction.- How to make abduction clear.- Questions concerning the place of abduction and Peirce's logic.
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