Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 5

Charles S. Peirce

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"Highly recommended." —Choice

" . . . an important event for the world of philosophy. For the first time we have available in an intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the past hundred years." —The Times Literary Supplement

Volume 5 of this landmark edition covers an important transition in Peirce's life, marked by a rekindled enthusiasm for speculative philosophy. The writings include essays relating to his all-embracing theory of categories as well as papers on logic and mathematics.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
1. Determinations of Gravity at Allegheny, Ebensburgh, and York, Pa., in 1879 and 1880
[Study of Great Men]
2. Materials for an Impressionist List of 300 Great Men
3. My list of great Men
4. [Men of Feeling, Action, Thought]
5. [Notes on Archimedes, Abel, Lagrange, and Gauss]
6. [Notes on Leonidas]
7. [Notes on Mencius]
8. [Notes on Michelangelo]
9. [Notes on Ockham and Machiavelli]
10. [Notes on Pythagoras]
11. [Notes on Rabelais]
12. Questions on Great Men [First Questionnaire]
13. Questions on Great Men [Revised Questionnaire]
14. [Remarks on Questions from the Final Questionnaire]
15. [Questionnaire Responses for Michelangelo, Hobbes, and Locke]
16. [Questionnaire Responses for Montaigne, Palissy, Machiavelli, and Lessing]
17. [Questionnaire Responses for Short List of 48 Great Men]
18. [Questionnaire Responses for Short List of 24 Great Men]
19. [Great Men: Classifications and Rankings]
20. On the Algebra of Logic: Part II
21. [Fragment on the Algebra of Logic]
22. On the Algebra of Logic (Second Paper)
23. Letter, Peirce to J.E. Hilgard
24. On Small Differences of Sensation, by C.S. Peirce and J. Jastrow
25. The Numerical Measure of the Success of Predictions
26. The "Old Stone Mill" at Newport
27. The Reciprocity Treaty with Spain
28. The Spanish Treaty Once More
29. [Testimony on the Organization of the Coast Survey]
30. On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation
31. Notes on the Algebra of Logic
32. Studies in Logical Algebra
33. An American Plato: Review of Royce's Religious Aspect of Philosophy
34. [Notes on the Categories]
35. One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature
36. [Measurement Scales and the Absolute]
37. Types of Third Degenerate in the Second Degree
38. [Clifford's The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences]
39. [Perrin's The Religion of Philosophy]
40. [Kant's Introduction to Logic]
41. [Fiske's The Idea of God]
42. On the Use of the Noddy for Measuring the Amplitude of Swaying in a Pendulum Support
43. Note on the Effect of the Flexure of a Pendulum upon its Period of Oscillation
44. Two Letters, Peirce to F.E. Abbot
45. Fundamental Properties of Number
46. Dr. F.E. Abbot's Philosophy
[One, Two, Three]
47. One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories
48. One, Two, Three
49. One, Two, Three: An Evolutionist Speculation
50. [First, Second, Third]
51. Note on a Device for Abbreviating Time Reductions
52. On the Influence of a Noddy on the Period of a Pendulum
53. On the Effect of Unequal Temperature upon a Reversible Pendulum
54. Qualitative Logic
55. The Logic of Relatives: qualitative and quantitative
56. An Elementary Account of the Logic of Relatives
57. [Words in E for the Century Dictionary]
58. Letter, Peirce to A. Marquand
Notes
Bibliography of Peirce's References
Chronological List, 1884-1886
Essay on Editorial Method
Symbols
Textual Apparatus
Headnotes, Textual Notes, Emendations, Line-End Hyphenation, Alterations
Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text
Index

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• PHILOSOPHY
• Linguistics
• General officer
• Literary theory
• Theory
• Semiotics
• Language
• General
• Langage

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 22 décembre 1993
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253016683
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Volume 5
Peirce ca. 1884
Writings of CHARLES S. PEIRCE
A CHRONOLOGICAL EDITION
Volume 5 1884-1886

C HRISTIAN J. W. K LOESEL , Editor
N ATHAN H OUSER , Associate Editor
M ARC S IMON , Textual Editor
A NDR D E T IENNE , Assistant Editor
U RSULA N IKLAS , Assistant Editor
A LETA H OUSER , Copy Editor
C ATHY L. C LARK , Editorial Associate
M AX H. F ISCH , Editor Emeritus
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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914. Writings of Charles S. Peirce.

Vol. 5- : Christian J.W. Kloesel, editor.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Contents: v. 1. 1857-1866.-v. 2. 1867-1871.-[etc.]-v. 5. 1884-1886.
1. Philosophy. I. Fisch, Max Harold, 1900-II. Kloesel, Christian J. W. III. Title.
B945.P4 1982 191 79-1993
ISBN 0-253-37201-1 (v. 1)
ISBN 0-253-37205-4 (v. 5)
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Christian J. W. Kloesel, Director
Nathan Houser, Associate Editor
Andr De Tienne, Assistant Editor
Ursula Niklas, Assistant Editor *
Marc Simon, Textual Editor **
Aleta Houser, Copy Editor and Production Manager
Cathy L. Clark, Editorial Associate

Max H. Fisch, Editor Emeritus
Edward C. Moore, Founding Editor

Contributing Editors (Vol. 5)
Douglas Anderson
Irving I. Anellis
Maryann Ayim
Robert Burch
Glenn Clark
Jonathan R. Eller
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Carl R. Hausman
Richard A. Tursman
Shea Zellweger
J. Jay Zeman
Advisory Board
Don L. Cook
Jo Ann Boydston
Arthur W. Burks
G rard Deledalle
Umberto Eco
Carolyn Eisele
John Gallman
Karen Hanson
Robert H. Hirst
Christopher Hookway
Kenneth L. Ketner
Edward C. Moore
Paul Nagy
Klaus Oehler
Vincent Potter
Hilary Putnam
Don D. Roberts
Israel Scheffler
Thomas A. Sebeok
William A. Stanley
Richard A. Tursman
President, Peirce Society

* served until July 1990
** served until July 1991
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction

1. Determinations of Gravity at Allegheny, Ebensburgh, and York, Pa., in 1879 and 1880
[ STUDY OF GREAT MEN ]
2. Materials for an Impressionist List of 300 Great Men
3. My list of great Men
4. [ Men of Feeling, Action, Thought ]
5. [ Notes on Archimedes, Abel, Lagrange, and Gauss ]
6. [ Notes on Leonidas ]
7. [ Notes on Mencius ]
8. [ Notes on Michelangelo ]
9. [ Notes on Ockham and Machiavelli ]
10. [ Notes on Pythagoras ]
11. [ Notes on Rabelais ]
12. Questions on Great Men [ First Questionnaire ]
13. Questions on Great Men [ Revised Questionnaire ]
14. [ Remarks on Questions from the Final Questionnaire ]
15. [ Questionnaire Responses for Michelangelo, Hobbes, and Locke ]
16. [ Questionnaire Responses for Montaigne, Palissy, Machiavelli, and Lessing ]
17. [ Questionnaire Responses for Short List of 48 Great Men ]
18. [ Questionnaire Responses for Short List of 24 Great Men ]
19. [ Great Men: Classifications and Rankings ]

20. On the Algebra of Logic: Part II
21. [ Fragment on the Algebra of Logic ]
22. On the Algebra of Logic (Second Paper)
23. Letter, Peirce to J. E. Hilgard
24. On Small Differences of Sensation , by C. S. Peirce and J. Jastrow
25. The Numerical Measure of the Success of Predictions
26. The Old Stone Mill at Newport
27. The Reciprocity Treaty with Spain
28. The Spanish Treaty Once More
29. [Testimony on the Organization of the Coast Survey]
30. On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation
31. Notes on the Algebra of Logic
32. Studies in Logical Algebra
33. An American Plato: Review of Royce s Religious Aspect of Philosophy
34. [ Notes on the Categories ]
35. One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature
36. [ Measurement Scales and the Absolute ]
37. Types of Third Degenerate in the Second Degree
38. [ Clifford s The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences ]
39. [Perrin s The Religion of Philosophy ]
40. [ Kant s Introduction to Logic]
41. [ Fiske s The Idea of God]
42. On the Use of the Noddy for Measuring the Amplitude of Swaying in a Pendulum Support
43. Note on the Effect of the Flexure of a Pendulum upon its Period of Oscillation
44. Two Letters, Peirce to F. E. Abbot
45. Fundamental Properties of Number
46. Dr. F. E. Abbot s Philosophy
[ ONE, TWO, THREE ]
47. One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories
48. One, Two, Three
49. One, Two, Three: An Evolutionist Speculation
50. [ First, Second, Third ]

51. Note on a Device for Abbreviating Time Reductions
52. On the Influence of a Noddy on the Period of a Pendulum
53. On the Effect of Unequal Temperature upon a Reversible Pendulum
54. Qualitative Logic
55. The Logic of Relatives: qualitative and quantitative
56. An Elementary Account of the Logic of Relatives
57. [ Words in E for the Century Dictionary]
58. Letter, Peirce to A. Marquand
Notes
Bibliography of Peirce s References
Chronological List, 1884-1886
Essay on Editorial Method
Symbols
Textual Apparatus
Headnotes, Textual Notes, Emendations, Line-End Hyphenation, Alterations
Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text
Index
Preface
Editions differ in what they select and how they arrange and edit their texts. Our selecting, arranging, and editing in the Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition are guided by the belief that Peirce s writings are, as he said of Plato s, worthy of being viewed as the record of the entire development of thought of a great thinker and that the development of his thought is eminently worth studying; for Peirce contributed to an exceptionally wide range of disciplines-in mathematics, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities-while aiming always at eventual synthesis, with a primary focus in logic, more and more broadly conceived.
The need for a comprehensive, chronologically arranged edition of Peirce s writings began to be acutely felt after Murray Murphey s The Development of Peirce s Philosophy appeared in 1961. At the Arisbe Conference in Milford, Pennsylvania, in October 1973, some twenty-five Peirce scholars discussed the relative merits of several alternative plans for such an edition, and settled on a selected but strictly chronological one. Indiana University assumed responsibility for the preparation of the new edition in 1975, and the Peirce Edition Project was established at the Indianapolis campus, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. Supporting grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation began in July 1976, and the Project got underway with a full-time staff of three. An Advisory Board and a group of Contributing Editors were appointed and, after a meeting with the former in November 1977, general policies and procedures were adopted. In the meantime, copies of most of Peirce s lifetime publications and of his manuscripts deposited in the Houghton Library of Harvard University had been acquired-and materials from other depositories were added later. Since 1991, the year of Professor Max Fisch s retirement, the Project has had a full-time staff of five.
When work toward the new edition began in 1975, the only edition of Peirce s writings in more than one volume was the eight-volume Collected Papers (1931-35, 1958). But in 1976 there appeared the four volumes (in five) of The New Elements of Mathematics . By that time the first part of Peirce s Contributions to THE NATION had been published; parts 2 , 3, and 4 followed in 1978, 1979, and 1988. In 1977 there appeared the Complete Published Works , a 149-microfiche edition accompanied by a printed Comprehensive Bibliography (revised and enlarged by 12 fiches in 1986). And in 1985, Carolyn Eisele published two volumes of Historical Perspectives on Peirce s Logic of Science . T