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

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

Description

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.

Full contents

• Ideas in Action: Proceedings of the Applying Peirce Conference (pdf, 2.0 MB)

Chapters

• Title and Contents

• Preface

• Note on References

 

• 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