The Road of Inquiry, Charles Peirce's Pragmatic Realism

The Road of Inquiry, Charles Peirce's Pragmatic Realism
Author: Peter Skagestad
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1981
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780231050043

Scientist, mathematician, thinker, the father of pragmatism, the inspiration for William James and John Dewey, Charles Peirce has remained until recently a philosopher's philosopher. Peirce trod a fine line between the extremes of nominalism and realism, tough-minded pragmatism and metaphysical speculation. As Peter Skagestad makes clear, Peirce's system of thought was fragmented, incomplete, and sometimes inconsistent. But one overriding concern gives unity to the whole: the road of inquiry must never be blocked.

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

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 and the Threat of Nominalism

Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism
Author: Paul Forster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139497839

Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains Peirce's challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and shows its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics. It will be essential reading both for Peirce scholars and for those new to his work.

From Realism to 'Realicism'

From Realism to 'Realicism'
Author: Rosa Mari Perez-teran mayorga
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2007-02-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739132571

Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of Pragmatism, was convinced that metaphysics is not just of primary importance to philosophy, but that it serves as the basis of all sciences. From Realism to 'Realicism' is a unique critical study of Peirce's metaphysics, and his repeated insistence on the realism of the medieval schoolman as the key to understanding his own system. By tracing the problem of universals beginning with its Greek roots, Rosa Maria Perez-Teran Mayorga provides the necessary yet underrepresented background of moderate realism and Peirce's eventual revision of metaphysics. This book examines Peirce's definition of the "real," his synechism, his idealism, and his "pragmaticism," which are all related to his sense of realism. With strong analyses and references to Plato, Aristotle, and John Duns Scotus, a Franciscan monk known as a major proponent of scholastic realism, From Realism to 'Realicism' is an insightful and intriguing book that will stimulate the minds of fellow philosophers and those interested in Charles Sanders Peirce.

Peirce on Realism and Idealism

Peirce on Realism and Idealism
Author: Robert Lane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2018
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108415229

Re-evaluates Peirce's metaphysics, exploring his views on pragmatism, reality, truth, and the mind's relation to the external world.

The Cambridge Companion to Peirce

The Cambridge Companion to Peirce
Author: Cheryl Misak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2004-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521579100

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally considered the most significant American philosopher. He was the founder of pragmatism, the view popularized by William James and John Dewey, that our philosophical theories must be linked to experience and practice. The essays in this volume reveal how Peirce worked through this idea to make important contributions to most branches of philosophy.

Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy

Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy
Author: Carl R. Hausman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997-05-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521597364

In this systematic introduction to the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, the author focuses on four of Peirce's fundamental conceptions.

Scholastic Realism

Scholastic Realism
Author: Paniel Reyes Cárdenas
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Pragmatism
ISBN: 9781787075467

The aim of this work is to respond to the following question: how did Charles S. Peirce find unity for his pragmatist philosophy through the formulation of Scholastic Realism? The author proposes the said doctrine to be a reading guide, leading us through the different stages of Peirce's work as a philosopher. By understanding his realist doctrine, we can see why he believed it was a viable theory for understanding the problem of Universals. This book demonstrates why, in Peirce's mind, such a problem has pervaded the history of philosophy. The author's line of argument reveals that Scholastic Realism is crucial to the understanding of his philosophy, which is a new approach in Peirce scholarship. It provides a useful framework for asking questions about reality in the same way that Peirce himself did. As a result, the author shows that Peirce's realism addresses different yet related philosophical problems, leading Peirce to brand the final version of his philosophy as «Scientific Metaphysics». The conclusion offers an interpretation of the Scholastic Realism principle as a solution to Peirce's concerns - a useful idea to achieve a better theory of reality in his struggle to realize metaphysics a posteriori. Peirce's doctrine is presented alongside some of its uses, especially in the fields of abstraction theory, and also in the fundamental principles of mathematics. This work should advance our comprehension of the problems related to Peirce's philosophy as well as shedding light on pragmatism and its origins as well as the battle between realism and nominalism.

Cognitive Pragmatism

Cognitive Pragmatism
Author: Nicholas Rescher
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0822970589

In Cognitive Pragmatism, Nicholas Rescher tackles the major questions of philosophical inquiry, pondering the nature of truth and existence. In the authoritative voice and calculated manner that we've come to expect from this distinguished philosopher, Rescher argues that the development of knowledge is a practice, pursued by humans because we have a need for its products. This pragmatic approach satisfies our innate urge as humans to make sense of our surroundings.Taking his discussion down to the level of particular details, and addressing such topics as inductive validation, hypostatization fallacies, and counterfactual reasoning, Rescher abandons abstract generalities in favor of concrete specifics. For example, philosophers usually insist that to reason logically from a counterfactual, we must imagine a possible world in which the statement is fact. But Rescher argues that there's no need to attempt to accept the facts of a world outside our cognition in order to reason from them. He shows us how we can use our own natural system of prioritizing, our own understanding of the fundamental, to resolve the inconsistencies in such statements as, "If the Eiffel Tower were in Manhattan, then it would be in New York State." In using dozens of real-world examples such as these, and in arguing in his characteristically succinct style, Rescher casts light on a wide variety of concrete issues in the classical theory of knowledge, and reassures us along the way that the inherent limitations on our knowledge are no cause for distress. In pragmatic theory and inquiry, we must accept that the best we can do is good enough, because we only have a certain (albeit large) set of tools and conceptualizations available to us.A unique synthesis, this endeavor into pragmatic epistemology will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy and cognitive science.