The Essential Peirce

by Peirce, Charles Sanders

• ISBN13: 9780253207210
• ISBN10: 0253207215
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"... a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." -- Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books"The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome Essential Peirce; they are by Peirce's standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness."  -- London Review of BooksA convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. This first volume presents twenty-five key texts from the first quarter century of his writing, with a clear introduction and informative headnotes. Volume 2 will highlight the development of Peirce's system of signs and his mature pragmatism.

Author Biography

NATHAN HOUSER is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Peirce Edition Project at Indiana University at Indianapolis. CHRISTIAN KLOESEL is Professor of English at Indiana University at Indianapolis.

Table of Contents

Chronology	ix
Foreword	xi
Nathan Houser
Christian Kloesel
Introduction	xix
Nathan Houser
On a New List of Categories (1867)	1	(10)
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Cognition Series
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man (1868)	11	(17)
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities (1868)	28	(28)
Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic (1869)	56	(27)
Fraser's The Works of George Berkeley (1871)	83	(23)
On a New Class of Observations, suggested by the principles of Logic (1877)	106	(3)
Illustrations of the Logic of Science
The Fixation of Belief (1877)	109	(15)
How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878)	124	(18)
The Doctrine of Chances (1878)	142	(13)
The Probability of Induction (1878)	155	(15)
The Order of Nature (1878)	170	(16)
Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis (1878)	186	(14)
[from] On the Algebra of Logic (1880)	200	(10)
Introductory Lecture on the Study of Logic (1882)	210	(5)
Design and Chance (1883--84)	215	(10)
[from] On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation (1885)	225	(4)
An American Plato: Review of Royce's Religious Aspect of Philosophy (1885)	229	(13)
One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories (1886)	242	(3)
A Guess at the Riddle (1887--88)	245	(35)
Trichotomic (1888)	280	(5)
The Monist Metaphysical Series
The Architecture of Theories (1891)	285	(13)
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined (1892)	298	(14)
The Law of Mind (1892)	312	(22)
Man's Glassy Essence (1892)	334	(18)
Evolutionary Love (1893)	352	(21)
Notes	373	(16)
Index	389