Peirce on Perception and Reasoning

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.

"This book contains original, insightful, and inspiring papers on important aspects of Peirce’s 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

• Chapter One: What Do We Perceive?: How Peirce "Expands Our Perception" Aaron Bruce Wilson Chapter Two: Perception as Inference Evelyn Vargas Chapter Three: Inferential Modeling of Percept Formation: Peirce’s Fourth Cotary PropositionRichard Kenneth Atkins Chapter Four: "Things Unreasonably Compulsory": Hume and Peirce on Perceiving Necessity Catherine LeggChapter Five: The Iconic Ground of Gestures: Peirce, Wittgenstein, and FoucaultRossella Fabbrichesi Chapter Six: Foundations for Semeiotic Aesthetics: Mimesis and IconicityKelly A. Parker Chapter Seven : Semiotics, Schemata, Diagrams and Graphs: A New Form of Diagrammatic Kantism by PeirceClaudio Paolucci Chapter Eight : The Chemistry of Relations: Peirce, Perspicuous Representations, and Experiments with Diagrams Chiara Ambrosio and Chris CampbellChapter Nine : Graphs as Images vs. Graphs as Diagrams: A Problem at the Intersection of Semiotics and DidacticsMichael May Chapter Ten: C.S. Peirce and the Teaching of DrawingSeymour Simmons III Chapter Eleven : What is Behind the Logic of Scientific Discovery?: Aristotle and Charles S. Peirce on ImaginationChristos A. Pechlivanidis Chapter Twelve: The Iconic Peirce: Geometry, Spatial Intuition, and Visual ImaginationKathleen A. Hull Chapter Thirteen: Two Dogmas of Diagrammatic Reasoning: A View from Existential Graphs Ahti-Viekko Pietarinen and Francesco Bellucci