Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical EssaysChance, 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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