Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals

Published by Fordham University Press 2012

Conversations on Peirce

Reals and Ideals

Edited by: Douglas R. Anderson and Carl R. Hausman

In the series American Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291267

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The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authors—and their colleagues and students—over the past decade and a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which Charles Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and a realist. The dialogue began as an exploration of Peirce’s explicit uses of these ideas and then turned to consider the way in which answers to the initial question shed light on other dimensions of Peirce’s architectonic. The essays explore the nature of semiotic interpretation, perception, and inquiry. Moreover, considering the roles of idealism and realism in Peirce’s thought led to considerations of Peirce’s place in the historical development of pragmatism. The authors find his realism turning sharply against the nominalistic conceptions of science endorsed both explicitly and implicitly by his nonpragmatist contemporaries. And they find his version of pragmatism holding a middle ground between the thought of John Dewey and that of Josiah Royce. The essays aims to invite others to consider the import of these central themes of Peircean thought.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Conversation I : Pragmatism, Idealism, Realism
1. Peirce on Berkeley’s Nominalistic Platonism Doug Anderson and Peter Groff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Who’s a Pragmatist: Royce, Dewey, and Peirce at the Turn of the Century Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. Two Peircean Realisms: Some Comments on Margolis Carl R. Hausman and Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4. The Degeneration of Pragmatism: Peirce, Dewey, Rorty Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Conversation II: Perception and Inquiry
5. Peirce’s Dynamical Object: Realism as Process Philosophy Carl R. Hausman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6. Another Radical Empiricism: Peirce 1903 Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
7. Peirce on Interpretation Carl R. Hausman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
8. Peirce and Pearson: The Aims of Inquiry Doug Anderson and Michael J. Rovine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Conversation III: Cultural Considerations
9. The Pragmatic Importance of Peirce’s Religious Writings Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
10. Realism and Idealism in Peirce’s Cosmogony Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
11. Love of Nature: The Generality of Peircean Concern Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
12. Developmental Theism: A Peircean Response to Fundamentalism Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Addendum
Peirce’s Coefficient of the Science of the Method: An Early Form of the Correlation Coefficient Michael J. Rovine and Doug Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
American Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 270

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823291267