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Chance, Love, and Logic - Philosophical Essays (Paperback)
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"One of the most original thinkers and system builders of any time,
and certainly the greatest philosopher the United States has ever
seen."-Joseph Brent, author of Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life.
"Peirce's achievements would take a short book to describe
adequately. In philosophy, he founded the most distinctively
American school of thought-Pragmatism. As the founder of
pragmatism, he was the intellectual hero of both John Dewey and
William James. He also created single-handedly the large discipline
called Semeiotic-the study of the working of signs-a discipline
which engages scholars all over the world. He was perhaps the first
modern Historian of Science, and he was certainly one of the great
founders of Mathematical Logic. He was, in truth, one of the rare
thinkers who deserves the overworked title of 'genius.'"-Hilary
Putnam, author of Pragmatism: An Open Question. "Most people never
heard of him, but they will."-Walker Percy. Chance, Love, and Logic
contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) which are
among his most important and widely influential. The first is
Illustrations 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. 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.
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