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Preface; Contents; 1 Enhancing Knowledge; 1.1 The Ignorance-Preserving Nature of Abduction; 1.2 The Eco-Cognitive Model (EC-Model) of Abduction: Cutdown and Fill-Up Problems; 1.3 The EC-Model of Abduction; 1.4 Abductive Virtues Vindicated. How Does Abduction Supply Knowledge? ; 1.4.1 Why Does Abduction Enhance Knowledge? Instinct, Inference, and Synechism: Mind and Matter Intertwined; 1.5 Enhancing Knowledge through Reward and Punishment and the Inductive Risk; 1.5.1 Beneficial and Detrimental Dissent: Inductive Risk; 1.6 Tracking the External World: Enhancing Predictive Knowledge
1.7 Tracking the External World through Scientific Knowledge1.8 Tracking Human Behavior. Rendering Human Behavior Predictable through Ethics; References; 2 Distributed Model-Based Science; 2.1 Models and Fictions; 2.2 Models Are Not Fictions. The Inconsistency of the Argument of Imperfect Fit; 2.3 Models Are Distributed; 2.4 Perception-Action Common Coding as an Example of ``On-line'' Manipulative Abduction; 2.5 Model-Based Ignorance; References; 3 Not Everything in Scientific Cognition Is Evidence-Based
3.1 The Epistemology of Evidentially Inert Knowledge-Enhancing: Guessing Conventions in Science3.1.1 Dismissing Conventions; 3.2 The Epistemology of Evidentially Inert Knowledge-Enhancing: Abducing Scientific Models Versus Abducing Fictions; 3.2.1 Dynamic Versus Static View of Scientific Models and the Revival of the Demarcation Problem; 3.3 Mathematics, Deduction, and Manipulative Abduction; References; 4 Epistemic Warfare; 4.1 Are Scientific Models Fictions or Epistemic Weapons?; 4.2 Scientific Models as Fictions in a Dynamic Perspective and Fictions as ``Façons de Parler''
4.3 Are the In-Vitro Model or a Geometrical Diagram Fictions?4.4 Confounding Static and Dynamic Aspects of the Scientific Enterprise; 4.5 Resemblance and Feyerabend's Counterinduction; 4.6 Galileo's Modeling Vindicated; References; 5 The Genealogy of Abduction; 5.1 Naïve Genealogy of Logic: Abduction and Arche-Validity; 5.1.1 Knowledge-Enhancing Abduction and Arche-Validity; 5.1.2 Deduction as Eco-Cognitive Immunization: Removing the Origins of Truths; 5.2 Aristotle's and Its Eco-Cognitive Openness; 5.3 Geometry and Logic: The Role of Constructions and Middle Terms in Abduction
5.3.1 and Geometry5.3.2 , Dialectics, and Logic; 5.3.3 Geometry and Logic Intertwined: and Its Eco-Cognitive Openness; 5.4 Dialectics, Rules of Interrogation, Syllogisms: Dialectical Logic Versus Syllogistic Logic?; 5.5 Abduction and Aristotelian Enthymeme from Signs; References; 6 Maximizing Cognition in Science: Affirming Truths Implies Negating Truths; 6.1 Reprise: Ignorance-Preserving, Immunization, Validity; 6.1.1 Ignorance-Preserving and Knowledge Enhancing Abduction; 6.1.2 Eco-Cognitive Immunization: De-Moralizing Truth; 6.1.3 ``Recognizing'' Validity; 6.1.4 Now
1.7 Tracking the External World through Scientific Knowledge1.8 Tracking Human Behavior. Rendering Human Behavior Predictable through Ethics; References; 2 Distributed Model-Based Science; 2.1 Models and Fictions; 2.2 Models Are Not Fictions. The Inconsistency of the Argument of Imperfect Fit; 2.3 Models Are Distributed; 2.4 Perception-Action Common Coding as an Example of ``On-line'' Manipulative Abduction; 2.5 Model-Based Ignorance; References; 3 Not Everything in Scientific Cognition Is Evidence-Based
3.1 The Epistemology of Evidentially Inert Knowledge-Enhancing: Guessing Conventions in Science3.1.1 Dismissing Conventions; 3.2 The Epistemology of Evidentially Inert Knowledge-Enhancing: Abducing Scientific Models Versus Abducing Fictions; 3.2.1 Dynamic Versus Static View of Scientific Models and the Revival of the Demarcation Problem; 3.3 Mathematics, Deduction, and Manipulative Abduction; References; 4 Epistemic Warfare; 4.1 Are Scientific Models Fictions or Epistemic Weapons?; 4.2 Scientific Models as Fictions in a Dynamic Perspective and Fictions as ``Façons de Parler''
4.3 Are the In-Vitro Model or a Geometrical Diagram Fictions?4.4 Confounding Static and Dynamic Aspects of the Scientific Enterprise; 4.5 Resemblance and Feyerabend's Counterinduction; 4.6 Galileo's Modeling Vindicated; References; 5 The Genealogy of Abduction; 5.1 Naïve Genealogy of Logic: Abduction and Arche-Validity; 5.1.1 Knowledge-Enhancing Abduction and Arche-Validity; 5.1.2 Deduction as Eco-Cognitive Immunization: Removing the Origins of Truths; 5.2 Aristotle's and Its Eco-Cognitive Openness; 5.3 Geometry and Logic: The Role of Constructions and Middle Terms in Abduction
5.3.1 and Geometry5.3.2 , Dialectics, and Logic; 5.3.3 Geometry and Logic Intertwined: and Its Eco-Cognitive Openness; 5.4 Dialectics, Rules of Interrogation, Syllogisms: Dialectical Logic Versus Syllogistic Logic?; 5.5 Abduction and Aristotelian Enthymeme from Signs; References; 6 Maximizing Cognition in Science: Affirming Truths Implies Negating Truths; 6.1 Reprise: Ignorance-Preserving, Immunization, Validity; 6.1.1 Ignorance-Preserving and Knowledge Enhancing Abduction; 6.1.2 Eco-Cognitive Immunization: De-Moralizing Truth; 6.1.3 ``Recognizing'' Validity; 6.1.4 Now