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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.
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.
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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