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Studies in Logic (Hardcover)
Benjamin Ives Gilman, Charles Sanders Peirce; Created by Johns Hopkins University
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This is a study edition of Charles Sanders Peirce's manuscripts for
lectures on pragmatism given in spring 1903 at Harvard University.
Excerpts from these writings have been published elsewhere but in
abbreviated form. Turrisi has edited the manuscripts for
publication and has written a series of notes that illuminate the
historical, scientific, and philosophical contexts of Peirce's
references in the lectures. She has also written a Preface that
describes the manner in which the lectures came to be given,
including an account of Peirce's life and career pertinent to
understanding the philosopher himself. Turrisi's introduction
interprets Peirce's brand of pragmatism within his system of logic
and philosophy of science as well as within general philosophical
principles.
Charles S. Peirce's "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" is an
early work in the philosophy of science and the official birthplace
of pragmatism. It contains Peirce's two most influential papers:
"The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear," as well
as discussions on the theory of probability, the ground of
induction, the relation between science and religion, and the logic
of abduction. Unsatisfied with the result and driven by a constant,
almost feverish urge to improve his work, Peirce spent considerable
time and effort revising these papers. These efforts gained
significant momentum after the turn of the century when Peirce
sought to establish his role in the development of pragmatism while
distancing himself from the more popular versions that had become
current. The present edition brings together the original series as
it appeared in "Popular Science Monthly" and a selection of
Peirce's later revisions, many of which remained hidden in the mass
of messy manuscripts that were left behind after his death in
1914.
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Studies in Logic (Paperback)
Benjamin Ives Gilman, Charles Sanders Peirce; Created by Johns Hopkins University
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
The first six volumes of "the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders
Peirce" included Peirce's main writings in general philosophy,
logic (deductive, inductive, and symbolic), pragmatism, and
metaphysics. Volumes VII and VIII are a continuation of this
series. Originally published as two separate volumes, they now
appear in one book as part of the Belknap Press edition. Volume VII
contains papers on experimental science, scientific method, and
philosophy of mind. Volume VIII contains selections from Peirce's
reviews and correspondence and a bibliography of his published
works, speeches and correspondence, and works by other authors
which quote or describe manuscripts by Peirce which are not
included in Volumes I-VIII of "Collected Papers,"
As is true of the series as a whole, the material in these
volumes is not readily accessible elsewhere. Many of the
manuscripts have never been published before, and the previously
published material which is included is widely scattered in a
number of journals.
Peirce's work in experimental science played an important role
in his life and in the formation of his philosophy, and Volume VII
is designed to show how the principal focus of his attention
shifted from this sphere to the methods of science and finally to
speculative metaphysics. Thus it includes his only published
article in experimental psychology and two short pieces on gravity
as well as the most important part of "The Logic of 1873" (in which
pragmatism was first formulated in writing); "The Logic of Drawing
History from Ancient Documents," discussion of the historical
method; "Economy of Research" (1879), containing many pertinent
reflections on scientific methodology ofinterest to research
directors today; and much more.
America's first original philosopher and logician, and the
founder of the philosophy of pragmatism, Peirce was also
influential in shaping the thinking of such figures as William
James and John Dewey. The reviews and correspondence contained in
Volume VIII show his attitude toward these philosophies and
illustrate the nature of his relationships with the great thinkers
of his day.
The bibliography in Volume VIII lists chronologically all of
Peirce's known published works, giving a clear picture of the
development of his thought from 1860 through 1911. It is more
complete than any published so far in that many new items are
included and items previously listed in different sources are here
brought together.
These volumes will be of great value to all persons interested
in philosophy, scientific method, psychology, the methodology of
history, and American studies in general.
Volumes I-VIII of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
are being reissued in response to a growing interest in Peirce's
thought--a development that was prophesied by John Dewey when he
reviewed the first volume of these papers on their appearance in
1931. Writing in "The New Republic," Mr. Dewey said, "Nothing much
will happen in philosophy as long as a main object among
philosophers is defense of some formulated historical position. I
do not know of any other thinker more calculated than Peirce to
give emanipation from the intellectual fortifications of the past
and to arouse a fresh imagination."
Originally published as eight separate volumes, the Peirce
papers appear in the new Belknap Press edition in four handsome
books of two volumes each. The content is identical with that of
the original edition: Volume I, "Principals of Philosophy"; Volume
II, "Elements of Logic"; Volumes III, "Exact Logic"; Volumes IV,
"The Simplest Mathematics"; Volumes V, "Pragmatism and
Pragmaticism"; Volume VI, "Scientific Metaphysics"; Volume VII,
"Science and Philosophy"; Volume VIII, "Reviews, Correspondence,
and Bibliography,"
"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.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was an American philosopher,
physicist, mathematician, and the founder of pragmatism. Despite
his importance in the history of philosophy, a unified statement of
his thought has been unavailable. With this publication, readers at
long last are offered the philosopher's only known, complete, and
coherent account of his own work. Originally delivered as the
Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898, Reasoning and the Logic of
Things is the most accessible and thorough introduction to Peirce's
mature thought to be found within the compass of a single book.
Beginning with an explanation of the nature of philosophy, Peirce
proceeds to illustrate his claim that mathematics provides the
foundation of our logic and metaphysics. We find here the clearest
formulation of an idea present in Peirce's thought since the 1860s,
the distinction between three kinds of reasoning: induction,
deduction, and retroduction. Then follows an introduction to
Peirce's chief logical doctrines, as well as his attempts to
provide a classification of the sciences, a theory of categories,
and a theory of science. In conclusion, turning from "reasoning" to
the "logic of things," Peirce called for an evolutionary cosmology
to explain the reality of laws and described the kinds of reasoning
he employed in developing this cosmology. At the urging of his
friend William James, Peirce made an uncharacteristic effort in
these lectures to present his ideas in terms intelligible to a
general audience-those without advanced training in logic and
philosophy. The introductory materials by Kenneth Ketner and Hilary
Putman add to the volume's lucidity. Consequently, this book will
be a valuable source for readers outside of the circle of Peirce
specialists.
With the present volume, the presentation of Peirce's philosophical
thought reaches its metaphysical culmination. It embodies the
effort of the founder of Pragmatism to develop a metaphysics which
will conform to the canons of scientific method, and at the same
time provide for real novelty, objective universal laws of nature,
cosmical and biological evolution, feeling, and mind. To his
previously published papers on chance, continuity, God, and other
metaphysical themes, the editors have added a considerable number
of unpublished manuscripts which clarify and develop the
implications of Peirce's fundamental world-view. The volume
contains those speculative views of Peirce which so deeply
influenced his contemporaries, including his discussions of tychism
and synechism and of the religious aspects of metaphysics.
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