Charles S. Peirce

by MOORE, EDWARD C.

• ISBN13: 9781573922562
• ISBN10: 1573922560
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Physicist, mathematician, and logician Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) was America's first internationally recognized philosopher, the man who created the concept of "pragmatism," later popularized by William James. Charles S. Peirce: The Essential Writings is a comprehensive collection of the philosopher's writings, including: "Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man" (1868), which outlines his theory of knowledge; a review of the works of George Berkeley; papers from between 1877 and 1905 developing the ground of pragmatism and Peirce's theory of scientific inquiry; his basic concept of metaphysics (1891-93); and the important 1902 articles in Baldwin's dictionary on his later pragmatism (or pragmaticism), uniformity, and synechism. Included are Peirce's well-known essays: "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Richard Robin
Foreword	xv
Introduction	1	(44)
Preface to an Unwritten Book, 1897-98	45	(6)
Review of the Works of George Berkeley---1871	51	(249)
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man
(The Journal of Speculative Philosophy series of 1868)	64	(55)
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man	66	(19)
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities	85	(34)
Illustrations of the Logic of Science
(Part of the Popular Science Monthly series of 1877-78)	119	(39)
The Fixation of Belief	120	(17)
How to Make Our Ideas Clear	137	(21)
A Guess at the Riddle
(The Monist series of 1891-92)	158	(103)
The Architecture of Theories	159	(15)
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined	174	(16)
The Law of Mind	190	(26)
Man's Glassy Essence	216	(21)
Evolutionary Love	237	(24)
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism
(Part of the Monist series of 1905)	261	(39)
What Pragmatism Is	262	(19)
Issues of Pragmatism	281	(19)
Some Contributions to Baldwin's Dictionary---1902	300	(15)
Pragmatism	300	(2)
Uniformity	302	(10)
Synechism	312	(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading	315	(4)
Suggestions for Future Reading (Post 1972)	319