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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2013  
         
  Article:   REREADING POE (1809-1849) AFTER READING PEIRCE (1839-1914) / RELIRE POE (1809-1849) APRÈS LECTURE DE PEIRCE (1839-1914).

Authors:  EVELINE PINTO. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  REREADING POE (1809-1849) AFTER READING PEIRCE (1839-1914). Defending a scientific philosophy, would Peirce have been right to include Poe in his contempt of literature? This paper shows what connects and separates two unclassifiable authors, who both claim clearness of ideas; agree to acknowledge the fecundity of an inference irreducible to induction and deduction, and suggesting the right hypothesis to the good explanation of a fact; hesitate to consider abduction as a logical and analytical process or as a psychological and intuitive one, and who, at the risk of deviating the thought involved in a rational investigation from its primary function, attempt the adventurous experience, in a literary spirit, of introducing it into the field of theistic belief.

RELIRE POE (1809-1849) APRÈS LECTURE DE PEIRCE (1839-1914). Adepte d’une philosophie scientifique, Peirce aurait-il eu raison d’inclure Poe dans son mépris de la littérature ? On montre ce qui rapproche et sépare deux auteurs inclassables, qui tous deux revendiquent la clarté des idées ; s’accordent à reconnaître la fécondité d’une inférence irréductible à l’induction et à la déduction, suggérant la bonne hypothèse explicative d’un fait ; hésitent à considérer l’abduction comme un processus logique et analytique ou comme un acte psychologique et intuitif ; et qui, au risque de dévier le raisonnement engagé dans une procédure d’enquête rationnelle de sa fonction première, tentent l’expérience aventureuse de l’ introduire dans le domaine de la croyance religieuse.

Keywords: Charles S. Peirce, Edgar A. Poe, pragmatism, inquiry, investigation, hypothesis, guessing, abduction, induction, deduction, consistency, literature, scientific metaphysics, theistic belief 		 
         
     
         
         
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