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December, 2010
303 + viii pp.
ISBN 978-952-67497-0-9

Ideas in Action

Proceedings of the Applying Peirce Conference

Edited by Mats Bergman, Sami Paavola, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Henrik Rydenfelt

Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 1

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This volume collects together selected papers presented at the Applying Peirce conference arranged at the University of Helsinki, 11-13 June 2007. The meeting brought together scholars and researchers to explore and discuss Charles S. Peirce’s thought and its applications. The current volume includes a selection of extended papers representative of the contents of the conference.

The editors, Mats Bergman, Sami Paavola, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Henrik Rydenfelt, form the core group operating the centre for Peirce studies at the University of Helsinki, the Helsinki Peirce Research Centre.

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Preface

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1. Reconsidering Peirce's Relevance
Nathan Houser

Part I

2. Serving Two Masters: Peirce on Pure Science, Useless Things, and Practical Applications
Mats Bergman

3. The Function of Error in Knowledge and Meaning: Peirce, Apel, Davidson
Elizabeth Cooke

4. Peircean Modal Realism?
Sami Pihlström

5. Toward a Transcendental Pragmatic Reconciliation of Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Jerold J. Abrams

6. Reflections on Practical Otherness: Peirce and Applied Sciences
Ivo Assad Ibri

7. Problems in Applying Peirce in Social Sciences
Erkki Kilpinen

8. Peirce and Pragmatist Democratic Theory
Robert B. Talisse

Part II

9. Peirce’s Revolutionary Concept of Rhetoric
James Jakób Liszka

10. Evolution, Pragmatism, and Rhetoric: Exploring the Origin and Loci of Meaning
Vincent Colapietro

11. Iconicity as Homomorphism: The Case of Picasso’s Guernica
Chiara Ambrosio

12. Not Just Underlying Structures: Towards a Semiotic Approach to Scientific Representation and Modeling
Tarja Knuuttila

13. Pragmaticism on the Semantic Web
Catherine Legg

14. Towards a Sound Contextualism: Applying Peircean Ideas at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Daniel Rellstab

Part III

15. Habits as Vehicles of Cognition
Pentti Määttänen

16. Peirce’s Theory of Assent
Giovanni Maddalena

17. Mindless Abduction: From Animal Guesses to Artifactual Mediators
Lorenzo Magnani

18. The Logicality of Abduction, Deduction and Induction
Gerhard Minnameier

19. Peirce, Abduction and Scientific Realism
Ilkka Niiniluoto

20. Complementary Strategies in Scientific Discovery: Abduction and Preduction
Andrés Rivadulla

21. Towards a Complex Variable Interpretation of Peirce’s Existential Graphs
Fernando Zalamea

22. Challenges and Opportunities for Existential Graphs
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen