Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays

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U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 1998 - Philosophy - 318 pages
Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839?1914) which are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, ?The Fixation of Belief? and ?How to Make Our Ideas Clear,? mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce?s innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.ø
 

Contents

PROEM THE RULES OF PHILOSOPHY
1
The Fixation of Belief
7
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
32
The Doctrine of Chances
61
The Probability of Induction
82
The Order of Nature
106
Deduction Induction and Hypothesis
131
The Architecture of Theories
157
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined
179
The Law of Mind
202
Mans Glassy Essence
238
Evolutionary Love
267
SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYThe Pragmatism of Peirce
301
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PEIRCES PUBLISHED WRITINGS
309
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Morris Raphael Cohen is the author of Law and the Social Order and Reason and Nature. Kenneth Laine Ketner is Charles Sanders Peirce Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University and the author of His Glassy Essence.

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