Charles S. Peirce

Charles S. Peirce
Author: Karl-Otto Apel
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1615924310

Reflecting a revival of Peirce studies and the rediscovery of the pragmatist tradition in American philosophical thinking, this study articulates a contemporary and relevant interpretation that may offer a challenge to neo-pragmatists.

Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking

Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791432655

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.

Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry

Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry
Author: Elizabeth Cooke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826488992

A ground-breaking study of one of America's greatest philosophers

The Pragmatic Maxim

The Pragmatic Maxim
Author: Christopher Hookway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199588384

Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers. He illuminates how Peirce's writings on truth, science, and the nature of meaning contribute to philosophical understanding in ongoing debates.

Peirce's Pragmatism

Peirce's Pragmatism
Author: Phyllis Chiasson
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2001
Genre: Methodology
ISBN: 9789042012752

This book cuts through the complex writing style of the seminal philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce. It disentangles his ideas, explains them one by one, and then puts the pieces back together for application to educational issues. Accessible to a general readership, this study provides useful insights into Peirce's pragmatism for educators and philosophers.

Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion

Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Author: John W. Woell
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-02-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441168001

Shows how an understanding of the intentionality underlining the pragmatism of Peirce and James can herald new interpretations of the interplay between philosophy and religion.

Cambridge Pragmatism

Cambridge Pragmatism
Author: Cheryl Misak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191020044

Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have like what he saw.

What Pragmatism Was

What Pragmatism Was
Author: F. Thomas Burke
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253009545

F. Thomas Burke examines the writings of William James and Charles S. Peirce to determine how the original "maxim of pragmatism" was understood differently by these two earliest pragmatists. Burke reconciles these differences by casting pragmatism as a philosophical stance that endorses distinctive conceptions of belief and meaning. In particular, a pragmatist conception of meaning should be understood as both inferentialist and operationalist in character. Burke unravels a complex early history of this philosophical tradition, discusses contemporary conceptions of pragmatism found in current US political discourse, and explores what this quintessentially American philosophy means today.

Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture

Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture
Author: Peter Ochs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 1998-05-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521570417

This is the first study of Charles Peirce's philosophy as a form of writing and the first study of his pragmatic writings as a critique of the modern attempt to change society by writing philosophy. According to Ochs, Peirce concluded that his own pragmatism displayed the errors of modernity, attempting to recreate rather than repair modern philosophy. His self-critique - which he called pragmaticism - refashions pragmatism as what Ochs calls a 'pragmatic method of reading': a method of, first, uncovering the conflicting beliefs that generate modern philosophies and, second, recommending ways of repairing these conflicts. Redescribing Peirce's pragmatism as 'the logic of scripture', Ochs suggests that Christians and Jews may in fact re-read pragmatism as a logic of Scripture: that is, as a modern philosopher's way of diagramming the Bible's rules for repairing broken lives and healing societal suffering.