Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgments Notes on In-Text Citations Introduction 1 Influences on Peirce’s Ethical Thought 2 Morality, Ethics and Peirce’s Conservative Sentimentalism Morality Conservative Sentimentalism 3 The Normative Science of Ethics The Development of Peirce’s Views About the Science of Ethics Normativity and the General Character of a Normative Science 4 A Grammar of Ethics The Formal Features of Purposive Conduct Degenerative Cases of Purposive Conduct An Analysis of the Elements of Purposive Action Peirce’s Theory of Desire Deliberation and Belief in Peirce Peirce’s Account of Intention, Resolution and Determination The Desire-Belief Model of Human Conduct 5 Ethical Reasoning Practical Reasoning Practical Reasoning Made Ethical 6 Moral Realism and Moral Truth Peirce’s Moral Realism Peirce’s Convergence Theory of Truth The Convergence Theory of Moral Truth Wiggins’s Convergence Theory of Moral Truth Kitcher’s Convergence Theory of Moral Truth 7 Ethical Community The Pathos of Inquirers: Intergenerational Altruism The Disinterested Inquirer The Greater Altruism of Evolutionary Love Disinterested Love The Ethos of Inquirers The Norms of Inquiry 8 Esthetics Schiller and the Reconciliation of Reason and Sentiment Plato and To Kalon Kant’s Architectonic of Reason and Peirce’s System of the Sciences Peirce’s Science of Esthetics 9 Ends Conclusion: The Lessons of the Normative Sciences Appendix 1: Peirce’s Classification of Ends References Index