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    Peirce's Theory of Signs.T. L. Short - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In this book, T. L. Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce's theory of signs and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic philosophy of language, mind and science. Peirce's theory of mind, naturalistic but nonreductive, bears on debates of Fodor and Millikan, among others. His theory of inquiry avoids foundationalism and subjectivism, while his account of reference anticipated views of Kripke and Putnam. Peirce's realism falls between 'internal' and 'metaphysical' realism and is more satisfactory than either. His pragmatism is not verificationism; (...)
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    9 The Development of Peirce's Theory of Signs.T. L. Short - 2004 - In Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Peirce. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 214.
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  3. Did Peirce Have a Cosmology?T. L. Short - 2010 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (4):521-543.
    W. B. Gallie's words about Peirce's cosmology—"the black sheep or white elephant of his philosophical progeny" (1952, p. 216)—have often been quoted, usually as a preface to giving a better account of the animal. That he attributed the view to 'contemporary philosophers' and did not assert it himself has usually been ignored. True, Gallie did argue that the "cosmology is a failure, and an inevitable failure" (p. 236), but he also said that Peirce himself "recognized … that his work in (...)
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    Life among the Legisigns.T. L. Short - 1982 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 18 (4):285 - 310.
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    Charles Peirce and Modern Science.T. L. Short - 2022 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    In this book, T. L. Short places the notorious difficulties of Peirce's important writings in a more productive light, arguing that he wrote philosophy as a scientist, by framing conjectures intended to be refined or superseded in the inquiries they initiate. He argues also that Peirce held that the methods and metaphysics of modern science are amended as inquiry progresses, making metaphysics a branch of empirical knowledge. Additionally, Short shows that Peirce's scientific work expanded empiricism on empirical grounds, grounding his (...)
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    Semeiosis and Intentionality.T. L. Short - 1981 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 17 (3):197 - 223.
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    Empiricism Expanded.T. L. Short - 2015 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 51 (1):1.
    Two aspects of Peirce’s mature philosophy seem to me not to have been sufficiently appreciated. They are its empiricist method and its continuity with his scientific research. The research led to and justified the method.1Ground must be cleared before we can proceed. Simplistic ideas of the empirical must be swept aside and Peirce’s empiricism accurately identified. We must also distinguish two theories of meaning that have been associated with empiricist philosophies and show that Peirce combined them ; this will be (...)
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    Interpreting Peirce's Interpretant: A Response To Lalor, Liszka, and Meyers.T. L. Short - 1996 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (4):488 - 541.
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    Teleology in Nature.T. L. Short - 1983 - American Philosophical Quarterly 20 (4):311 - 320.
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  10. Hypostatic Abstraction in Self-Consciousness.T. L. Short - 1997 - In Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce. University of Toronto Press. pp. 289-308.
     
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    Peirce on the Aim of Inquiry: Another Reading of "Fixation".T. L. Short - 2000 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (1):1 - 23.
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    Response.T. L. Short - 2007 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4):663-693.
    : This response to my seven critics is organized under five topics: 1. The book's scope and approach; 2. Physicalism, idealism, anthropomorphism; 3. Final causation; 4. Peirce's development; 5. Signs, objects, interpretants. No ground is ceded, but I have found the interchange clarifying and hope that the reader will find it so, too.
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    Hypostatic Abstraction in Empirical Science.T. L. Short - 1988 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 32 (1):51-68.
    In empirical science, hypostatic abstraction posits an entity defined by its assumed physical relation to a known phenomenon. If the assumed relation is real, the posited entity is physically real and is not an ens rationis. The posited entity, being identified indirectly, by its relation to something else, may be the agreed-upon subject of mutually incommensurable theories, and this is a key to understanding the history of science. Natural kinds may be introduced by hypostatic abstraction, and this explains why, contrary (...)
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    Peirce's Concept of Final Causation.T. L. Short - 1981 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 17 (4):369 - 382.
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    Was Peirce a Weak Foundationalist?T. L. Short - 2000 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (4):503 - 528.
  16. (1 other version)Measurement and philosophy.T. L. Short - 2008 - Cognitio 9 (1):111-124.
    Peirce earned his keep making measurements, mainly of gravity but also astronomical, and he made several contributions to the science of measurement. It has been said that his experience measuring had philosophical consequences: his adoption of fallibilism, his argument against necessitarianism, and his conception of inquiry as converging on the truth have all been mentioned. But not much attention has been paid to the curious episode of his making “the study of great men” part of a course in logic: students (...)
     
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    Peirce on Science and Philosophy.T. L. Short - 2008 - Philosophical Topics 36 (1):259-277.
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    Response to Critics.T. L. Short - 2024 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 59 (4):432-455.
    This response to a variety of criticisms of _Charles Peirce and Modern Science_ restates and attempts to clarify and explain major themes of the book.
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  19. The Pragmatic Turn by Richard J. Bernstein.T. L. Short - 2012 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (4):563-566.
    Over many decades, Richard Bernstein has interpreted contemporary philosophy’s three traditions, roughly distinguished as analytic, pragmatic, and Continental, emphasizing their mutual affinities. Despite this reference to the continent of Europe, it would be wrong to identify any of these traditions geographically or linguistically; even to call them ‘traditions’ is stretching a point. Pragmatism originated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it has spread from there, transmogrifying in the process and claiming surprising allies, such as Heidegger; the label ‘pragmatist’ has even been affixed (...)
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  20. Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism by Paul Forster.T. L. Short - 2012 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (3):385-387.
    This book is remarkable for what it does not do. It purports to be about Peirce's opposition to nominalism, but it never states clearly what nominalism is and says little about Peirce's realist alternative. It contains no historical discussion of nominalism and thus does not explain the relation of Peirce's idiosyncratic use of that term to its original meaning. It ignores the secondary literature on that topic and does not even list Rosa Mayorga's highly relevant 2007 book, From Realism to (...)
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    Normative Science?T. L. Short - 2012 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (3):310-334.
    This article revises a paper I read at the SAAP session in honor of my late friend, Richard Robin. The discussion that followed the paper was much better than the paper, and my present effort, I hope, has benefited from that discussion. What I say here is exploratory. I am more confident of my criticisms of other authors than of the alternative I propose. It is the mere sketch of an idea, its many obvious difficulties blithely ignored. I hope in (...)
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    Questions Concerning Certain Claims Made for the ‘New List’.T. L. Short - 2013 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 49 (3):267.
    In May 1867, when he was twenty-seven years of age, Charles Peirce read a paper to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that was published in the next year under the title ‘On a New List of Categories’ (EP 1:1–10).1 It is remarkable for anticipating major features of his later thought: three categories relationally defined (bracketed, however, by two additional categories); a theory of signs, triadically conceived and triadically sub-divided, applied to thinking; the idea that every predicate is an (...)
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    Peirce's Idea of Science.T. L. Short - 2020 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 56 (2):212-221.
    The following paragraphs were written not for print publication but for oral delivery on a celebratory occasion; their many unsupported assertions, some commonplace and some controversial, were made not to prove a thesis but to suggest a point of view—a perspective on Peirce's thought that might be taken, or not, as one wishes. The suggestion is that some difficulties are resolved and some things fall into place if we view his philosophy in its several relations to modern science. For that (...)
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    An Analysis of Conceptual Change.T. L. Short - 1980 - American Philosophical Quarterly 17 (4):301 - 309.
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    Commemorative essay. David Savan’s defense of semiotic realism.T. L. Short - 1994 - Semiotica 98 (3-4):243-264.
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    David Savan's Peirce Studies.T. L. Short - 1986 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 22 (2):89 - 124.
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    On a Mistaken Emendation of Peirce's 1903 Harvard Lectures.T. L. Short - 2022 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 57 (3):341-352.
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    O Falibilismo é Ômega-inconsistente.T. L. Short - 2006 - Cognitio 7 (2):293-301.
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    Peirce and the Incommensurability of Theories.T. L. Short - 1980 - The Monist 63 (3):316-328.
    Once upon a time a version of positivism prevailed in the philosophy of science. A key assumption made in positivism is that there is a class of observations - I will call them ‘basic observations’ - that are independent of theory. Basic observations are expressed in a non-theoretical or purely descriptive language: they refer to no postulated entities and presuppose no explanatory hypotheses or other logically contingent propositions. Theories, according to this philosophy, are admissible in science only if they are (...)
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    Peirce's Empiricism: Its Roots and Its Originality by Aaron Wilson.T. L. Short - 2017 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (4):622-626.
    Empiricism in philosophy is either a method or a theory. The two are separable: one might hold that all knowledge is empirical but that philosophy does something other than add to our knowledge, e.g., that it clarifies concepts; or one might hold that philosophy’s method is empirical and that one of the things known in that way is that not all knowledge is empirical, e.g., mathematics. And what is the empirical? If it is knowledge based on observation, then what is (...)
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    Peirce's Irony.T. L. Short - 2018 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 54 (1):9.
    But as you know... my style of ‘brilliancy’ consists in a mixture of irony and seriousness,—the same things said ironically and also seriously.Peirce’s philosophical writings are notoriously difficult. The reasons most often cited are the apparent contradictions, the long, inconclusive technical digressions, and the unfinished character of his thought. His champions instead emphasize his originality, arguing that his apparent contradictions often mark traditional dualisms subtly transcended; some discern strands of an uncompleted system. Originality, subtlety, and the need to reconstruct the (...)
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    Peirce on Realism and Idealism by Robert Lane.T. L. Short - 2019 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (1):80-84.
    Peirce persistently proclaimed both idealism and realism, terms that in philosophy's history have had varied meanings, in some of which they designate opposed doctrines; his use of them also varied in meaning. The aim of Robert Lane's important new book is to trace the evolution of Peirce's idealism and realism and to show that, in the end, whatever misadventures occur en route, these doctrines, in Peirce's version of them, are not opposed. Lane explores connections to other Peircean topics: truth, pragmatism, (...)
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    Respones.T. L. Short - 2007 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4):663 - 693.
    This response to my seven critics is organized under five topics: 1. The book's scope and approach; 2. Physicalism, idealism, anthropomorphism; 3. Final causation; 4. Peirce's development; 5. Signs, objects, interpretants. No ground is ceded, but I have found the interchange clarifying and hope that the reader will find it so, too.
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    Review essay.T. L. Short - 1996 - Synthese 106 (3):409-430.
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    Robin on Perception and Sentiment in Peirce.T. L. Short - 2002 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (1/2):267 - 282.
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    Some Problems concerning Peirce's Conceptions of Concepts and Propositions.T. L. Short - 1984 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 20 (1):20 - 37.
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    The Discovery of Scientific Aims and Methods.T. L. Short - 1998 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2):293-312.
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    The 1903 Maxim.T. L. Short - 2017 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (3):345.
    Much has been written on the pragmatic maxim introduced in the 1878 essay 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear'. It was not there so named, but a quarter century later, at the outset of his Lectures on Pragmatism delivered at Harvard in 1903, Peirce quoted it and named it.1 At the conclusion of those lectures occurs another statement named a 'maxim' and implied to be pragmatism's. This 1903 maxim is almost as well-known as the 1878 maxim but has received little (...)
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  39. Darwin's concept of final cause: Neither new nor trivial. [REVIEW]T. L. Short - 2002 - Biology and Philosophy 17 (3):323-340.
    Darwin'suse of final cause accords with the Aristotelian idea of finalcauses as explanatory types – as opposed to mechanical causes, which arealways particulars. In Wright's consequence etiology, anadaptation is explained by particular events, namely, its past consequences;hence, that etiology is mechanistic at bottom. This justifies Ghiselin'scharge that such versions of teleology trivialize the subject, But a purelymechanistic explanation of an adaptation allows it to appear coincidental.Patterns of outcome, whether biological or thermodynamic, cannot be explainedbytracing causal chains, even were that possible. (...)
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  40. Carl R. Hausman, "Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy". [REVIEW]T. L. Short - 1994 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (2):401.
     
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  41. James Hoopes , "Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce". [REVIEW]T. L. Short - 1992 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28 (4):877.
     
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