Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity

“The book presents a broadly dynamic attitude to epistemology and science. … the book makes for appropriate reading in a graduate seminar on science education, epistemology and the philosophy of science, and beyond. Magnani’s broad and dynamic view … should help instructors and students alike gain a fair view of the role that abduction plays for science, and of the crisis it faces.” (Shiyang Yu and Frank Zenker, Science & Education, Vol. 30, 2021)“Thanks to the notion of manipulative abduction, Magnani was able to treat some of the dilemmas in Peirce scholarship. … Backed up by his intriguing discussions of ‘thinking through doing’, ‘affordances’, and ‘unconscious habits of inference’, perceptual model-based ways of cognition are inseparably intertwined with inferential processes … .” (Woosuk Park, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 56 (3), 2020)

• Enhancing Knowledge: Tracking the External World.- Distributed Model-Based Science: Scientific Models Are Not Fictions.- Not Everything in Scientific Cognition Is Evidence-Based: The Epistemology of Evidentially Inert Knowledge Enhancing.- Epistemic Warfare: Are Scientific Models Fictions or Epistemic Weapons?.- The Genealogy of Abduction: Geometry, and Logic Intertwined.- Maximizing Cognition in Science: Irrelevance and Implausibility Exculpated.- Science Maximizes Abducibility: The Optimization of Eco-Cognitive Situatedness in Ampliative Inferences.- Human Creative Abduction Assaulted: Impoverishing Epistemological Niches.