Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

by Peirce, Charles S.

• ISBN13: 9780807843420
• ISBN10: 0807843423
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-12-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Summary

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs--or semiotic--is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines. This anthology, the first one-volume work devoted to Peirce's writings on semiotic, provides a much-needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce's semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce's theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
An Essay on the Limits of Religious Thought Written to Prove That We Can Reason Upon the Nature of God	p. 14
Introduction	p. 16
[a Treatise on Metaphysics]	p. 16
On a New List of Categories	p. 23
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man	p. 34
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities	p. 54
Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities	p. 85
[fraser's the Works of George Berkeley]	p. 116
On the Nature of Signs	p. 141
The Fixation of Belief	p. 144
How to Make Our Ideas Clear	p. 160
One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature	p. 180
Guess at the Riddle	p. 186
James's Psychology	p. 203
Man's Glassy Essence	p. 212
Minute Logic	p. 231
Sign	p. 239
Lectures on Pragmatism	p. 241
[Pragmatism"""" Defined]""""	p. 246
Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism	p. 249
A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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