Research Catalog

Title

The rule of reason : the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce / edited by Jacqueline Brunning and Paul Forster.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brunning, Jacqueline, 1934-
• Forster, Paul, 1957-

Description

x, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of Pragmatism, was an American philosopher, logician, physicist, and mathematician. Since the publication of his Collected Papers began in 1931, interest in Peirce has grown dramatically. His work has found audiences in such disciplines as philosophy, computer science, logic, film studies, semiotics, and literary criticism. While Peirce scholarship has advanced considerably since its earliest days, many controversies of interpretation persist, and several of the more obscure aspects of his work remain poorly understood." "The Rule of Reason is a collection of original essays examining Peirce's thought by some of the best-known scholars in the field. The contributors investigate outstanding issues and difficulties in his philosophy and situate his views in both their historical and their contemporary contexts. Some of the essays clarify aspects of Peirce's philosophy, some defend its contemporary significance, and some do both. The essays explore Peirce's work from various perspectives, considering the philosophical significance of his contributions to logic; the foundations of his philosophical system; his metaphysics and cosmology; his theories of inquiry and truth; and his theories of mind, agency, and selfhood."--Jacket

Series Statement

Toronto studies in philosophy

Uniform Title

Toronto studies in philosophy

Subject

• Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914
• Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914
• Peirce, Charles S
• Philosophie
• Pragmatisme

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The place of S.S. Peirce in the history of logical theory / Jaakko Hintikka -- Inference and logic according to Peirce / Isaac Levi -- The logical foundations of Peirce's indeterminism / Paul Forster -- A Tarski-style semantics for Peirce's beta graphs / Robert W. Burch -- The tinctures and implicit quantification over worlds / Jay Zeman -- Pragmatic experimentalism and the derivation of the categories / Sandra B. Rosenthal -- Classical pragmatism and pragmatism's proof / Richard S. Robin -- The logical structure of idealism : C.S. Peirce's search for a logic of mental processes / Helmut Pape -- Charles Peirce and the origin of interpretation / Carl R. Hausman -- Sentiment and self-control / Christopher Hookway -- A political dimension of fixing belief / Douglas R. Anderson -- The first rule of reason / Susan Haack -- The dynamical object and the deliberative subject / Vincent M. Colapietro -- Hypostatic abstraction in self-consciousness / T.L. Short -- David Savan : in memoriam / Calvin G. Normore.

ISBN

• 0802008291
• 9780802008299
• 0802078192
• 9780802078193

LCCN

97142335

OCLC

• ocm37116258
• 37116258
• SCSB-9481793

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library