The Hardness of the Iconic Must: Can Peirce's Existential Graphs Assist Modal Epistemology?

Legg, Catherine

doi:10.1093/philmat/nkr005

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“…• Intuition [Bonjour (1998), Bealer (2002), Chudnoff (2013)] • Conceivability [Yablo (1993), Chalmers (2002)] • Counterfactuals [Williamson (2007), Kroedel (2012)] • Deduction [Kripke (1971), Lowe (2008Lowe ( , 2012, Hale (2013)] • Conventions [Sidelle (1989), Sveinsdóttir (2008Sveinsdóttir ( , 2013, Thomasson (2013)] • Implicit Knowledge of Principles of Possibility [Peacocke (1998)] • Imagination [Hume (1980), Gregory (2004), Kung (2010), Ichikawa and Jarvis (2011)] • Free Variation [Husserl (1973), Mohanty (1991), Tieszen (2005)] • Perception [Legg (2012), Legg and Franklin (2017), Hanrahan (2009), Strohminger (2015)] • Similarity Reasoning [Roca-Royes (2017), Hawke (2011)], and • Theories or Arguments [Fischer (2016a), Bueno and Shalkowski (2014)].…”

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The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction

Vaidya

Wallner

2018

Synthese

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There are three theories in the epistemology of modality that have received sustained attention over the past 20 years (1998-2018): conceivability-theory, counterfactualtheory, and deduction-theory. In this paper we argue that all three face what we call the problem of modal epistemic friction (PMEF). One consequence of the problem is that for any of the three accounts to yield modal knowledge, the account must provide an epistemology of essence. We discuss an attempt to fend off the problem within the context of the internalism versus externalism debate about epistemic justification. We then investigate the effects that the PMEF has on reductive and non-reductive theories of the relation between essence and modality.

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The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction

Vaidya

Wallner

2018

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“…Our project connects with a recent upsurge of interest in the role of diagrams in necessary reasoning: both in mathematics (Brown, ; Franklin, ; Giaquinto, ; Sherry, ; Mumma, ; Catton and Montelle, : many of these authors inspired by Manders, ) and in logic (Shin, ; Macbeth, , ; Legg, ). This has been prompted by growing awareness that diagrams frequently serve as more than just post hoc illustration of necessary reasoning which has already taken place in some more ‘serious’ nondiagrammatic form.…”

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Perceiving Necessity

Legg

Franklin

2015

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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In many diagrams one seems to perceive necessity – one sees not only that something is so, but that it must be so. That conflicts with a certain empiricism largely taken for granted in contemporary philosophy, which believes perception is not capable of such feats. The reason for this belief is often thought well‐summarized in Hume's maxim: ‘there are no necessary connections between distinct existences’. It is also thought that even if there were such necessities, perception is too passive or localized a faculty to register them. We defend the perception of necessity against such Humeanism, drawing on examples from mathematics.

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“…The abbreviation 'EP' in the citation refers to the Essential Peirce, edited by the Peirce Edition Project, in bibliography as Peirce (1992-98). 16 In a brilliant technical article, Cathy Legg (2011) shows that the notion of iconicity involved in Peirce's Existential Graphs should prompt us to revisit the very foundational question of how we come to know Two considerations are in order here, before moving on to a discussion of how the rediscovery of Peirce's Existential Graphs has defined and shaped current debates on diagrammatic representations. First, a point about perspicuity and communicability.…”

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“…Albeit Legg does not cite this specific passage, I believe her account illuminates precisely (among other things) the sense of 'necessity' here invoked by Peirce. See Legg 2011. valid reasoning takes place through graphs, diagrams, maps, as well as other media (Barwise and Etchemendy 1996, 4). Sun-Joo Shin (2002) provides a clear overview of the main tenets of this programme:…”

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Toward an Integrated History and Philosophy of Diagrammatic Practices

Ambrosio

2020

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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This article offers an overview of current approaches to the study of diagrams and their roles in scientific knowledge making. The discussion develops in three parts. The first investigates and questions historical and philosophical analyses of the suppression of diagrams in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It attempts to sketch an alternative historiography of diagrammatic practices in which the insights of advocates of diagrammatic reasoning in a time of “objectivity without images” take center stage. The second part turns to the American philosopher, scientist, and logician Charles Sanders Peirce as a representative defender of diagrammatic reasoning and diagrammatic representation in the late nineteenth century, and it investigates his legacy on current approaches to diagrams. The final part exposes a puzzling paradox in the literature, characterizing it as a false dichotomy between “the representational view” and the “object-based view” of diagrams. The article concludes that this dichotomy reveals more about the identities of scholars embracing particular disciplinary traditions than about diagrams themselves, and it suggests that this can be overcome by attending to diagramming as a practice at the intersections of representation, manipulation, and experimentation.

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The Hardness of the Iconic Must: Can Peirce's Existential Graphs Assist Modal Epistemology?

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction

The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction

Perceiving Necessity

Toward an Integrated History and Philosophy of Diagrammatic Practices

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