The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913)

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This 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. Volume 2 presents twenty-nine pivotal texts, beginning with Immortality in the Light of Synechism, in which Peirce proposes synechism, the tendency to regard everything as continuous, as a key advance over the three popular Oisms materialism, idealism, and dualism, and ending with Peirce's late and unfinished investigations of the relative merits of different kinds of reasoning. Included are selections from Peirce's Harvard lectures on pragmatism, Lowell lectures on logic, and Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic, all of 1903. During his later years Peirce worked unremittingly to integrate new insights and discoveries into his general system of philosophy, and to make his major doctrines fully coherent within that system. This volume gives the first comprehensive presentation of Peirce's mature philosophy and is required reading for students who want to appreciate the breadth of learning and wisdom of America's greatest pragmatist. Cover Contents Chronology Preface Introduction 1. Immortality in the Light of Synechism (1893) 2. What Is a Sign? (1894) 3. Of Reasoning in General (1895) 4. Philosophy and the Conduct of Life (1898) 5. The First Rule of Logic (1898) 6. Pearson's Grammar of Science (1901) 7. Laws of Nature (1901) 8. On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents, Especially from Testimonies (1901) 9. On Science and Natural Classes (1902) HARVARD LECTURES ON PRAGMATISM (1903) 10. The Maxim of Pragmatism (Lecture I) 11. On Phenomenology (Lecture II) 12. The Categories Defended (Lecture III) 13. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics (Lecture IV) 14. The Three Normative Sciences (Lecture V) 15. The Nature of Meaning (Lecture VI) 16. Pragmatism as the Logic of Abduction (Lecture VII) 17. What Makes a Reasoning Sound? (1903) A SYLLABUS OF CERTAIN TOPICS OF LOGIC (1903) 18. An Outline Classification of the Sciences 19. The Ethics of Terminology 20. Sundry Logical Conceptions 21. Nomenclature and Divisions of Triadic Relations, as Far as They Are Determined 22. New Elements (Kαινa στoιχεiα) (1904) 23. Ideas, Stray or Stolen, about Scientific Writing (1904) PRAGMATICISM (1905–07) 24. What Pragmatism Is (1905) 25. Issues of Pragmaticism (1905) 26. The Basis of Pragmaticism in Phaneroscopy (1906) 27. The Basis of Pragmaticism in the Normative Sciences (1906) 28. Pragmatism (1907) 29. A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908) 30. A Sketch of Logical Critics (1911) 31. An Essay toward Improving Our Reasoning in Security and in Uberty (1913) APPENDIX: SEMIOTICS FROM LATE CORRESPONDENCE 32. Excerpts from Letters to Lady Welby (1906–08) 33. Excerpts from Letters to William James (1909) Notes Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z