Abductive reasoning, creativity and self-organization

• Autor(a) principal: Gonzalez, Maria Eunice Quilici
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Haselager, Willem (Pim) Ferdinand Gerardus
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cognitio (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/13248
• topic: abdução; auto-organização; crenças; criatividade; disposições; hábitos; parâmetros de ordem; abductive reasoning; beliefs; dispositions; habits; creativity; order parameters; self-organization

We are going to investigate the nature of Creativity focusing on Peirce’s notion of abductive reasoning and on the main premises of the Theory of Self-Organization. As an initial hypothesis we characterize Creativity as a self-organizing process in which abductive reasoning occurs allowing the expansion of well-structured sets of beliefs.As originally characterized by Peirce, abduction - in contrast with deduction and induction - provides a mode of logical inference upon which creative reasoning is based. It starts with the perception of anomalies or apparently unsolvable problems: surprise and doubts initiate the abductive process of search and generation of those possible hypotheses that, if true, could resolve the problems in question.We argue that, as a kind of heuristics, abduction constitutes a guide for the process of expansion of beliefs. Our main hypothesis here is that this process can be investigated, from a theoretical perspective, in terms of the dynamics of order parameters shaping the flow of habits available to self-organizing systems. This hypothesis shall be developed in three steps:1. The main steps of abductive reasoning, as proposed by Peirce (1931-1958), shall be described with indications of its relevance for the present approach to creativity. This kind of reasoning is described as a particular form of activity of dynamic selforganizing systems.2. The premises of the theory of self-organization (TSO) will be introduced in order to illustrate the dynamics of creative systems.3. Finally, we focus on the notions of habits and order parameters to characterize the dynamics of creative systems in which abductive reasoning seems to take place.Through (1), (2) and (3) we provide an interdisciplinary approach to Creativity, involving contributions of semiotics, self-organization theory and dynamical system theory.