Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy

In this paper, I examine recent treatments of Peircean truth in terms of regulative principles or intellectual hopes, drawing on work by Christopher Hookway, Cheryl Misak, and Andrew Howat. In doing this I show that recent arguments by Huw Price that Peirce’s account cannot provide an effective truth norm do not apply when Peircean truth is construed as a regulative assumption on inquiry. I conclude by comparing the “anthropological” sensibilities of Price’s account of truth as convenient friction, and Peirce’s account of truth as a regulative assumption or intellectual hope.