..". a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books

"The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome Essential Peirce; they are by Peirce s standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness." London Review of Books

A convenient two-volume reader s edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. This first volume presents twenty-five key texts from the first quarter century of his writing, with a clear introduction and informative headnotes. Volume 2 will highlight the development of Peirce s system of signs and his mature pragmatism."

"This volume is a scholarly collection of massive biographical detail, much of which is being revealed for the first time." Isis

A selection of Fisch s most important articles on these topics is presented here in a convenient format, including revisions and updating and a complete bibliography of Fisch s published writings."