Charles Peirce Summary

Charles Sanders Peirce 1839-1914 American mathematician who contributed to the study of associative algebras, mathematical logic, and set theory, extending the work of his father, Benjamin Peirce. Cha... Read more

Peirce, Charles Sanders Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), pronounced "purse," was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 10, and died in Milford, Pennsylvania on April 19... Read more

Peirce, Charles Sanders(1839–1914) Charles Sanders Peirce, the American philosopher, physicist, and mathematician and the founder of pragmatism, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father... Read more

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was one of America's most important philosophers. Many of his writings were not published until after his death, but he made important contributions in both philosop... Read more

Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"), the polymath founder of pragmatism, was for some time after his death mainly known in the United States as William James's friend and John Dewey's logic in... Read more

In the following essay, Potter presents a Jesuit's interpretation of Pence's "Neglected Argument for the Reality of God. " Peirce's theism is not calculated to pl... Read more

In the following excerpt, Feuer advances his notion that Peirce was the first philosopher to be considered a "pragmatic pessimist. " According to John Dewey, the pragmatic philosophy ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Anderson explores the potential contradictions in Peirce's religious faith and his pragmatic convictions. That Charles Peirce was a realist in several ways is hardl... Read more

In the following excerpt, Potter presents an overview of Peirce's categories and discusses Peirce's views on substantiality and empiricism. Charles S. Peirce has a great deal to contr... Read more

In the following excerpt, Ochs asserts that Peirce is the first postmodernist philosopher. By definition, a "logic of postmodernism" would appear to be a contradiction in terms: philo... Read more

In the following excerpt, Auspitz places Peirce among his list of the world's greatest philosophers, a distinction he credits to Peirce's consistent and rigorous thought. In 1983, a r... Read more

In the following excerpt, Christensen discusses the critical relevancy of Peirce's philosophical contributions to pragmatism. Although C. S. Peirce is generally regarded as the founder of Am... Read more

In the following excerpt, Cochran uses Peirce's essay "Evolutionary Love" to examine the latter's idealism and acknowledgement of historical materialism. 1 Since the adv... Read more

In the following excerpt, Zeman discusses Peirce's semiotic approach to logic and science. The lifetime of Charles Sanders Peirce spanned a period of tremendous change and development in hum... Read more

In the following excerpt, Skagestad summarizes Peirce's pragmatic approach to realism. During the past decade or so, philosophers of science have increasingly recognized that the rationality... Read more

In the following excerpt, Kaelin defends Peirce's aesthetics as an uncredited source of modern critical theory. I The first thing to note about Peirce's semiotic aesthetics is that Pe... Read more

In the following excerpt, Auspitz asserts that Peirce was the United States' only contribution to great philosophy, and isolates his later writing as his most profound. Charles Sanders Peirc... Read more