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The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the
authors and their colleagues and students over the last decade and
a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which Charles
Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and a realist. The
dialogue began as an exploration of Peirce's explicit uses of these
ideas and then turned to consider the way in which answers to the
initial question shed light on other dimensions of Peirce's
architectonic.
The essays explore the nature of semiotic interpretation,
perception, and inquiry. Moreover, considering the roles of
idealism and realism in Peirce's thought led to considerations of
Peirce's place in the historical development of pragmatism. The
authors find his realism turning sharply against the nominalistic
conceptions of science endorsed both explicitly and implicitly by
his nonpragmatist contemporaries. And they find his version of
pragmatism holding a middle ground between the thought of John
Dewey and Josiah Royce. The essays aims to invite others to
consider the import of these central themes of Peircean thought.
Albert Rothenberg, a psychiatrist, and Carl R. Hausman, a
philosopher, have prepared a truly comprehensive interdisciplinary
book of readings on creativity. This group of selections from the
works of writers in psychiatry, philosophy, psychology,
psychoanalysis, and education brings together, for the first time,
major theoretical works, outstanding empirical findings, and
discussions of the definition and nature of creativity.
The organization of The Creativity Question is unique: it
illustrates the various approaches and basic assumptions underlying
studies of creativity throughout the course of history up to the
present time. The main body of selections appears under the
categories of descriptions, attempts at explanation, and alternate
approaches. As specific orientations to creativity can be traced to
particular initiating thinkers and investigators, there is a
special chapter on seminal accounts containing selections from the
works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Galton, and Freud. Another chapter
includes recent illustrations of special types of exploratory
trends: creativity of women, brain research, synectics,
extrasensory perception, behaviorism, and creativity computer
programming. This organization highlights the tension between
strictly scientific accounts and alternative approaches offering
new ways of understanding. The editors have provided for the books
as a whole and for each chapter explanation and discussion of the
basic issues raised by the various approaches to creativity.
In this systematic introduction to the philosophy of Charles S.
Peirce, the author focuses on four of Peirce's fundamental
conceptions: pragmatism and Peirce's development of it into what he
called 'pragmaticism'; his theory of signs; his phenomenology; and
his theory that continuity is of prime importance for philosophy.
He argues that at the centre of Peirce's philosophical project is a
unique form of metaphysical realism, whereby continuity and
evolutionary change are both necessary for our understanding of
experience. In his final chapter Professor Hausman applies this
version of realism to contemporary controversies between
anti-realists and anti-idealists. Peirce's views are compared to
those of such contemporary figures as Davidson, Putnam, and Rorty.
The book will be of particular interest to philosophers concerned
with American philosophy and current debates on realism as well as
linguists working in semiotics.
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