{"product_id":"9783032105790","title":"Abducing Abduction Novel Perspectives on Peircean Abduction and Their Consequences For Contemporary Debates","description":"\u003ch3\u003eStudies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eAbducing Abduction\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eNovel Perspectives on Peircean Abduction and Their Consequences For Contemporary Debates\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDouglas Niño\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Epistemology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: black;\"\u003eThis book offers the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Peirce’s theory of abduction, tracing its evolution across five distinct periods from 1864 to 1914. It reconstructs Peirce’s shifting treatment of hypothesis—from its early separation from induction, to its redefinition as an “induction of characters,” its association with Aristotle’s \u003cem\u003eapagoge\u003c\/em\u003e, and its eventual reformulation as “retroduction.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: black;\"\u003eBridging historical scholarship and logical analysis, it clarifies abduction’s justification, validity, and its formal, epistemic, and methodological characteristics that distinguish it from Peircean induction and deduction, while also analyzing the place of pragmatism within these inferential forms. It further examines how Peirce’s ideas have been interpreted and adapted in contemporary debates in philosophy of science, logic, and cognitive science, including inference to the best explanation, artificial intelligence, practical logic, and eco-cognitive approaches. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: black;\"\u003eThe concluding chapter introduces the Agentive Semiotics framework, showing how Peirce’s insights illuminate abduction as a dynamic, agent-driven process for restoring cognitive manageability when the available and activated information becomes disrupted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032105790\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e824\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44541765746828,"sku":"9783032105790","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032105790_38a80db1-ab5a-4dfd-87db-75f3928cd76c.jpg?v=1781058294","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032105790","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}