Sign of Three - Dupin, Holmes, Peirce

Informationen zum Autor edited by Umberto Eco, Thomas A. Sebeok Klappentext The book is as intellectually exciting as it is instructive, and I recommend it highly to all readers who care seriously about how we come to know the things we think we know. Zusammenfassung Suitable for armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection and Peirce scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok Abbreviations in the Text: Thomas A. Sebeok 1. One, Two, Three Spells UBERTY Thomas A. Sebeok 2. You Know My Method: A Juxtaposition of Charles S. Pierce and Sherlock Holmes Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok 3. Sherlock Holmes: Applied Social Psychologist Marcello Truzzi 4. Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method Carlo Ginzburg 5. To Guess or Not To Guess? Massimo A. Bonfantini and Giampaolo Proni 6. Peirce, Holmes, Popper Gian Palol Carettini 7. Sherlock Holmes Confronts Modern Logic: Toward a Theory of Information-Seeking through Questioning Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka 8. Sherlock Holmes Formalized Jaakko-Hintikka 9. The Body of the Dectective Model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe Nancy Harrowitz 10. Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypothesis on Three Types of Abduction Umberto Eco References

Product details

• Authors: Umberto Eco, Thomas Sebeok, Thomas A. Sebeok
• Assisted by: Umberto Eco (Editor), Thomas A. Sebeok (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1984
• EAN: 9780253204875
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20487-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Paperba; Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Paperba
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics