Charles S. Peirce, 1839–1914 : An intellectual biography.
Title:
Charles S. Peirce, 1839–1914 : An intellectual biography.
Author:
Deledalle, Gérard.
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9789027274359
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1 online resource (123 pages)
Contents:
CHARLES S. PEIRCE AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY -- Title page -- Copyright page -- By the same author -- Table of contents -- On the semiotics of interpretation Introduction -- References -- Foreword -- Presentation -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Leaving the Cave (1851-1870) -- 1. From nominalism to the critique of Kantian logic -- 2. A new list of categories -- 3. Against the spirit of Cartesianism: A new "realist" conception of the thought process -- 4. Grounds of validity of the laws of logic: The nature of reality and the social character of logic -- Chapter two. The Eclipse of the Sun(1870-1887) -- 1. Journeys and professional activities -- 2. Formation of the logic of relations and the new conception of propositions -- 3. Theory of research -- 4. Mathematics and symbolic logic -- Boolian Logic. -- The Logic of Relatives and of Terms. -- Propositional Logic. -- Truth Values -- The Philonian Function -- The System of Axioms -- 5. Discovery of Greek cosmology -- Chapter Three. The Sun Set Free (1887-1914) -- 1. Arisbe -- 2. The system -- 3. Phenomenology -- 4. The normative sciences -- Esthetics and ethics. -- Logic. -- Semiotic. -- Formal Logic. -- Abduction, induction, deduction. -- 5. Scientific metaphysics -- Tychism. -- Synechism. -- Agapism. -- God. -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index nominum -- Index rerum.
Abstract:
This work is the intellectual biography of the greatest of American philosophers. Peirce was not only a pioneer in logic and the creator of a philosophical movement pragmatism he also proposed a phenomenological theory, quite different from that of Husserl, but equal in profundity; and long before Saussure, and in a totally different spirit, a semiotic theory whose present interest owes nothing to passing fashion and everything to its fecundity. Throughout his life Peirce wrote continually about sign and phenomenon (or phaneron). Consequently his writings must be studied chronologically if they are not to appear incomprehensible or contradictory. One of the merits of this book is to clarify Peirce's thought by analysing its development chronologically. We follow the evolution of Peirce's thought from his critique of Kantian logic and Cartesianism (Chap. I, "Leaving the Cave": 1851-1870) to his discovery of modern logic and pragmatism (Chap. II, "The Eclipse of the Sun": 1870-1887) and finally to a semiotic founded on a phenomenology the base of which is the logic of relations and the crowning-point scientific metaphysics (Chap. III, "The Sun Set Free": 1887-1914). The book includes a detailed chronology, a general bibliography, and an index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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