Las variedades de la experiencia abductiva
Antonio Duarte
HUMAN Review International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades May 9, 2022 DOI: 10.37819/humanrev.v11i.893 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that religious and scientific abductive experiences are equivalent from a generative and methodological point of view, that Peirce's Musement is universal and underlies the most creative abductions, and proposes fully identifying Musement with the brain's default mode network. |
Abstract
Following the Peirce’s proposal drawn in the Neglected Argument, here we focus on the equivalence, from the generative and methodological point of view, of what we will call the religious and scientific abductive experiences. To articulate these connections, we also rely on William James's Gifford Lectures (1901-1902) collected under the title The Varieties of Religious Experience. Moreover, we study extensively the universality of the Musement which is related to the mental processes that lead to the generation of the most creative abductions; finally, we fully identify the Musement with a recent discovery of neuroscience, the brain’s default mode network.