Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture

New York: Cambridge University Press (1998)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This is the first study of Charles Peirce's philosophy as a form of writing and the first study of his pragmatic writings as a critique of the modern attempt to change society by writing philosophy. According to Ochs, Peirce concluded that his own pragmatism displayed the errors of modernity, attempting to recreate rather than repair modern philosophy. His self-critique - which he called pragmaticism - refashions pragmatism as what Ochs calls a 'pragmatic method of reading': a method of, first, uncovering the conflicting beliefs that generate modern philosophies and, second, recommending ways of repairing these conflicts. Redescribing Peirce's pragmatism as 'the logic of scripture', Ochs suggests that Christians and Jews may in fact re-read pragmatism as a logic of Scripture: that is, as a modern philosopher's way of diagramming the Bible's rules for repairing broken lives and healing societal suffering.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Reading Peirce Reading.Richard A. Smyth - 1997 - Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
C. S. Peirce: Pragmatism and Logicism.Jaime Nubiola - 1996 - Philosophia Scientiae 1 (2):109-119.
Review: El pragmatismo. [REVIEW]Daniel G. Campos - 2010 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (3):512-516.
Pragmatism as a principle and method of right thinking: the 1903 Harvard lectures on pragmatism.Charles Sanders Peirce - 1997 - Albany: State University of New York Press. Edited by Patricia Ann Turrisi.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
13 (#882,392)

6 months
1 (#1,027,696)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Peter Ochs
University of Virginia

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references