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...
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Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
Born in 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Charles Sanders Peirce was the second and favorite son of Benjamin Peirce, who was a professor of mathematics and astronom...
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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...
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The logical work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was an unusual blend of the traditional and the modern. His early paper "Memoranda concerning the Aristotelian Syllogism,&#x...
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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...
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Peirce, Charles Sanders [addendum]
Charles Sanders Peirce, one of America's most original philosophers, produced a body of work remarkable for its scope and enduring relevance. For many years P...
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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...
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Charles Sanders Peirce remains one of the enigmatic figures in the history of American science. He made substantial contributions to a number of fields, especially logic, but his use of unusual termin...
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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...
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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 pleas...
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In the following excerpt, Raposa explores Peirce's religious nature as a backdrop for the entirety of his writings.
Charles Peirce described his essay, "A Neglected Argument for The Real...
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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 ari...
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In the following excerpt, Ringuette examines the influence of Peirce's brand of pragmatism on the novels of his friend, Henry James.
In the final Preface for the New York edition of his novels ...
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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 hardly d...
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In the following excerpt, Perry examines the concept of self-control in Peirce's philosophy, finding it derives from Peirce's reading of Friedrich Schiller, Henry James, and Emmanuel Swe...
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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 contribu...
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In the following excerpt, Turrisi concerns herself with Peirce's pragmatism and his application of pragmatism in his discussions on logic.
A proof of pragmatism is proposed in Peirce's 1...
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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: philosop...
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In the following excerpt, Torsney examines the writings of both Henry James and Peirce to further her assumption that the two men were sexually involved.
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Jonathan Dollimore opens Sexual Dissidence, ...
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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 revi...
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In the following essay, Struhl examines Peirce's "The Fixation of Belief" as a pragmatic approach to discussing religious faith.
Peirce's classic essay "The Fixation...
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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 Ameri...
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In the following excerpt, Behrens evaluates the validity of Peirce's arguments for the existence of a supreme being.
What I will call a "scientific argument" for the existence of ...
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In the following excerpt, Cochran uses Peirce's essay "Evolutionary Love" to examine the latter's idealism and acknowledgement of historical materialism.
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Since the advent...
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In the following excerpt, Haack moderates a mock dialogue on the nature of knowledge and truth between philosophers Peirce and Richard Rorty, using original writings of the two men.
SUSAN HAACK: Let m...
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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 human ...
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In the following excerpt, Fisch presents a chronological ordering of Peirce's writings on symbolic logic
Both the general theory of signs and certain specialized branches of it, such as symptom...
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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 an...
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In the following excerpt, Gavin examines common conclusions drawn by Peirce and William James on the nature of religious faith.
The multi-dimensionality of the term 'pragmatism' is by no...
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In the following excerpt, Kaelin defends Peirce's aesthetics as an uncredited source of modern critical theory.
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The first thing to note about Peirce's semiotic aesthetics is that Peirc...
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In the following excerpt, Rosenthal concludes that Peirce's pragmatism is founded on sound ontological and epistemological thinking.
Peirce's pragmatic stress on meaning in terms of habi...
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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 Peirce, ...
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