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9780803287518

Chance, Love, and Logic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803287518

  • ISBN10:

    0803287518

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Summary

Chance, Love, and Logiccontains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914) which are among his most important and widely influential. The first isIllustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear," mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.

Author Biography

Morris Raphael Cohen is the author of Law and the Social Order and Reason and Nature. Kenneth Laine Ketner is Charles Sanders Peirce Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University and the author of His Glassy Essence.

Table of Contents

PREFACE xvii
INTRODUCTION ix
PROEM. THE RULES OF PHILOSOPHY 1(6)
PART I. CHANCE AND LOGIC (Illustrations of the Logic of Science.) 7(150)
1. The Fixation of Belief
7(25)
2. How to Make Our Ideas Clear
32(29)
3. The Doctrine of Chances
61(21)
4. The Probability of Induction
82(24)
5. The Order of Nature
106(25)
6. Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis
131(26)
PART II. LOVE AND CHANCE 157(144)
1. The Architecture of Theories
157(22)
2. The Doctrine of Necessity Examined
179(23)
3. The Law of Mind
202(36)
4. Man's Glassy Essence
238(29)
5. Evolutionary Love
267(34)
SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY--The Pragmatism of Peirce 301(8)
John Dewey
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PEIRCE'S PUBLISHED WRITINGS 309

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