The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity An Essay on the Ecology of Cognition

“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)