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Book Synopsis
Suitable for armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection and Peirce scholars.

Trade Review
" ... fascinating throughout... the book is recreative in the highest sense." Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic "A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection, and Peirce scholars." Library Journal

Table of Contents

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

The Sign of Three Dupin Holmes Peirce

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 22 September 1988
      ISBN-13 9780253204875
      978-0253204875
      ISBN-10 0253204879
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Suitable for armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection and Peirce scholars.

      Trade Review
      " ... fascinating throughout... the book is recreative in the highest sense." Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic "A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection, and Peirce scholars." Library Journal

      Table of Contents

      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

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