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Peirce's Empiricism - Its Roots and Its Originality (Hardcover)
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Peirce's Empiricism - Its Roots and Its Originality (Hardcover)
Series: American Philosophy Series
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Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the
pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)
spent over forty years developing a philosophical system that
addresses the fundamental problems of Western metaphysics,
epistemology, and value theory. Although never formally completed,
what emerges from Peirce's writings is a distinctive system that,
through an innovative semiotic or theory of signs and cognition,
combines a thoroughgoing form of empiricism with a robustly realist
metaphysics that emphasizes the mind-independence of laws and other
universals. Peirce's Empiricism: Its Roots and Its Originality
explains this marriage of empiricism with realism by tracing the
roots of Peirce's thought in the history of Western philosophy,
with particular attention paid to his predecessors in the
empiricist and the common sense traditions. By purging modern
empiricism of its nominalistic metaphysics and its Cartesian
assumptions about mind and knowledge, and by combining it with
insights from sources as diverse as Duns Scotus and Charles Darwin,
Peirce reinvents the idea that all our knowledge depends on sense
perception while reaffirming the place of philosophy as a
foundational field of inquiry. In Peirce's Empiricism, Aaron Bruce
Wilson defends an interpretation of Peirce's philosophical work as
forming a systematic whole, and develops the connections between
Peirce, Reid, and the British empiricists. Wilson provides focused
analyses of Peirce's accounts of experience, habit, perception,
semeiosis, truth, and ultimate ends. This book will be of great
value to students and scholars with interests in Peirce, American
philosophy more broadly, modern philosophy, and semiotics.
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