Article

Il corpo come icona. Abduzione, strumenti ed Embodied Simulation / The Body as an Icon. Abduction, Tools, and Embodied Simulation

in Versus n. 120, Peirceana three. Sull’iconismo / On Iconism, pp.93-103

Abstract (english)

on intelligent tool use by taking into account the Peircean concepts of abduction and icon. Peirce’s insights will allow us to address some of the problems currently discussed in the literature on tool behavior, and to finally suggest a new framework to account for this capability. In our proposal, Embodied Simulation is the neurobiological mechanism on which inferential abduction can be grounded. The intrinsically iconic nature of this mechanism will allow us to explain its cognitive value.