2005 Volume 153 – 1/4

JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES

REVUE DE L’ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE SÉMIOTIQUE

Editor-in-Chief/Rédacteur-en-Chef Marcel Danesi

3marcel.danesi@utoronto.ca4

Associate Editor/Rédacteur Adjoint Paul Perron

3p.perron@utoronto.ca4

Address/Adresse Marcel Danesi

Program in Semiotics and
Communication Theory
Victoria College
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7
Canada
Phone (416) 585 4412
Assistant Editor/Assistant à la Rédaction Paolo Ammirante
3semiotic@utm.utoronto.ca4
Book Review Editors/Comptes Rendus Paul Perron
(Coordinator/Coordinateur)
3p.perron@utoronto.ca4
Claudio Guerri
Frederik Stjernfelt
Kim Sung-do
Coordinators/Coordinatrices Laura Mosco
Laurie Stewart

MOUTON DE GRUYTER
BERLIN
NEW YORK

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 Special Issue

Abduction: Between subjectivity

and objectivity

Guest Editors:

JOÃO QUEIROZ
FLOYD MERRELL

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 Contents/Sommaire

João Queiroz and Floyd Merrell

Abduction: Between subjectivity and objectivity 1

Abduction and aesthetics

Douglas R. Anderson
The esthetic attitude of abduction 9
Susan Petrilli
The semiotic universe of abduction 23

Abduction and learning processes

Donald J. Cunningham, Ana Baratta, and Amber Esping

Masters of our own meaning 53
Virgı́nia Dazzani
Learning and abduction 73
Floyd Merrell
Shouldn’t we be surprised that we are not surprised when we
should be surprised? 85

Abduction, interpretation, and inference

Christopher Hookway
Interrogatives and uncontrollable abductions 101
Jaime Nubiola
Abduction or the logic of surprise? 117
Sami Paavola
Peircean abduction: Instinct or inference? 131
Augusto Ponzio
Dialogic gradation in the logic of interpretation: Deduction,
induction, abduction 155

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Lucia Santaella
Abduction: The logic of guessing 175
Uwe Wirth
Abductive reasoning in Peirce’s and Davidson’s account of
interpretation 199

Abduction, scientific method, and reasoning processes

Christiane Chauvire
Peirce, Popper, abduction, and the idea of a logic of discovery 209
Phyllis Chiasson
Abduction as an aspect of retroduction 223
Giovanni Maddalena
Abduction and metaphysical realism 243
Lorenzo Magnani
An abductive theory of scientific reasoning 261
Solomon Marcus
Abduction: The double change 287
Sandra Rosenthal
Peircean Phaneroscopy: The pervasive role of abduction 299
Patricia Turrisi
The abduction in deduction and the deduction in abduction:
Remarks on mixed reasonings 309

Abduction and cognitive science

Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez and Willem (Pim) Ferdinand

Gerardus Haselager
Creativity: Surprise and abductive reasoning 325
Artemis Moroni, Jônatas Manzolli, and Fernando J. Von Zuben
Artificial abduction: A cumulative evolutionary process 343

Abduction, perception and pragmatic philosophy

Atocha Aliseda
The logic of abduction in the light of Peirce’s pragmatism 363
Juan Magariños de Morentin
Performance of abduction in the interpretation of visual images 375
Claudine Tiercelin
Abduction and the semiotics of perception 389

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Abduction: A theory in progress

Vincent Colapietro
Conjectures concerning an uncertain faculty claimed for
humans 413
Geert-Jan M. Kruij¤
Peirce’s late theory of abduction: A comprehensive account 431
Nathan Houser
The scent of truth 455

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