Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 3

Charles S. Peirce

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The PEIRCE EDITION contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief historical and biographical introduction, extensive editorial and textual notes, and a full chronological list of all of Peirce's writings, published and unpublished, during the period covered.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
1. Educational Text-Books, II
2. [Lecture on Practical Logic]
3. Third Lecture [Toward a Logic Book, 1872-73]
4. [Logic, Truth, and the Settlement of Opinion]
5. [Investigation and the Settlement of Opinion]
6. Chapter 1
7. Chapter 1 (Enlarged abstract)
8. Chapter 1 (Enlarge abstract)
9. Chapter 1. Of the Difference between Doubt and Belief
10. Chapter 2. Of Inquiry
11. Chapter 3. Four Methods of Settling Opinion
12. [On Reality]
13. Chapt. 4 (2nd draft)
14. Chap. 4 (——-draft)
15. On Reality
16. On Reality
17. Chap. 4. Of Reality
18. Of Reality
19. Chapter IV. Of Reality
20. Chapter IV. Of Reality
21. Chapter ——-. The List of Categories
22. On Representations
23. On Representations
24. On the nature of signs
25. [On Time and Thought]
26. [On Time and Thought]
27. Chap. 5th
28. Chap. 6th
29. Memorandum: Probable Subjects to be treated of
30. Chap. 7. Of Logic as a Study of Signs
31. Chap. 9th
32. Chap. VIII. Of the Copula
33. Chap. IX. Of relative terms
34. Chap. X. The Copula and Simple Syllogism
35. Chap. XI. On Logical Breadth and Depth
36. Chapter IV. The Conception of Time essential in Logic
37. Chapter IV. The Conception of Time essential in Logic
38. Chapter V. That the significance of thought lies in its reference to the future
39. Notes on Logic Book
40. Letter, Peirce to Abraham B. Conger
41. [On Errors of Observation]
42. On the Theory of Errors of Observations
43. Linear Associative Algebra: Improvement in the Classification of Vids
44. Lazelle's One Law in Nature
45. Rainfall
46. [On Political Economy]
47. On the Application of Logical Analysis to Multiple Algebra
48. [Early Abstract of Photometric Researches]
49. Notes on the Fundamentals of Algebra
50. The Axioms of Geometry
51. Logical Contraposition and Conversion
52. Addition to the note for Mind
53. Sketch of the Theory of Non-Associative Multiplication
54. The Principles of Mechanics
55. Nicholas St. John Green
56. Note on the Sensation of Color
57. On the Influence of the Flexibility of the Support on the Oscillation of a Pendulum
58. On a New Class of Observations, suggested by the principles of Logic
59. Note on Grassmann's Calculus of Extension
Illustrations of the Logic of Science
60. The Fixation of Belief
61. How to Make Our Ideas Clear
62. The Doctrine of Chances
63. The Probability of Induction
64. The Order of Nature
65. Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis
66. Comment se fixe la croyance
67. Comment Rendre nos idees claires
68. [Ferrero's Esposizione del metodo dei minimu quadrati]
69. Photometric Researches
Editorial Notes
Bibliography of Peirce's References
Chronological List, 1872-1878
Textual Apparatus
Essay on Editorial Method
Explanation of Symbols
Textual Notes
Emendations
Historical Collation
List of Variants
Word Division
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie du langage
• Literary Criticism
• PHILOSOPHY
• Linguistics
• Philosophy of language
• Literary theory
• Theory
• Semiotics
• Language
• Langage

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 22 avril 1986
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780253016652
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Volume 3
An official Coast Survey photograph, ca. 1875
Writings of CHARLES S. PEIRCE
A CHRONOLOGICAL EDITION
Volume 3
1872-1878
C HRISTIAN J. W. K LOESEL , Editor
M AX H. F ISCH , Senior Editor
L YNN A. Z IEGLER , Textual Editor
N ATHAN H OUSER , Assistant Editor
D ON D. R OBERTS , Associate Editor
U RSULA N IKLAS , Research Associate
A LETA H OUSER , Copy Editor
E DWARD C. M OORE , Founding Editor
Indiana University Press Bloomington
Preparation of this volume has been supported in part by grants from the Program for Editions of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and the National Science Foundation. Publication of this volume was aided by a grant from the Program for Publications of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce.
Vol. 3- : Christian J.W. Kloesel, editor.
Includes indexes.
CONTENTS: -V. 1. 1857-1866 -V. 2. 1867-1871 -V. 3. 1872-1878.
1. Philosophy-Collected works. I. Fisch, Max Harold, 1900- . II. Kloesel, Christian J. W. III. Title.
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ISBN 0-253-37201-1 (v. 1)
ISBN 0-253-37203-8 (v. 3)
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Indiana University Indianapolis
Peirce Edition Project
Christian J. W. Kloesel, Director
Max H. Fisch, Senior Editor
Lynn A. Ziegler, Textual Editor
Nathan Houser, Assistant Editor
Don D. Roberts, Associate Editor
Ursula Niklas, Research Associate
Aleta Houser, Copy Editor
Edward C. Moore, Founding Editor
Contributing Editors
(Vol. 3)
G rard Deledalle
Donald R. Koehn
Daniel D. Merrill
Richard A. Tursman
Advisory Board
Jo Ann Boydston
Vincent G. Potter
Arthur W. Burks
Israel Scheffler
Carolyn Eisele
Thomas A. Sebeok
Karen Hanson
Manley Thompson
Kenneth L. Ketner
Richard A. Tursman
Klaus Oehler
President, Charles S. Peirce Society
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
1. Educational Text-Books, II
2. [ Lecture on Practical Logic ]
3. Third Lecture
[ TOWARD A LOGIC BOOK, 1872-73 ]
4. [ Logic, Truth, and the Settlement of Opinion ]
5. [ Investigation and the Settlement of Opinion ]
6. Chapter 1
7. Chapter 1 (Enlarged abstract)
8. Chapter 1 (Enlarged abstract)
9. Chapter 1. Of the Difference between Doubt and Belief
10. Chapter 2. Of Inquiry
11. Chapter 3. Four Methods of Settling Opinion
12. [ On Reality ]
13. Chapt. 4 (2nd draft)
14. Chap. 4 (--- draft)
15. On Reality
16. On Reality
17. Chap. 4. Of Reality
18. Of Reality
19. Chapter IV. Of Reality
20. Chapter IV. Of Reality
21. Chapter ---. The list of Categories
22. On Representations
23. On Representations
24. On the nature of signs
25. [ On Time and Thought ]
26. [ On Time and Thought ]
27. Chap. 5th
28. Chap. 6th
29. Memorandum: Probable Subjects to be treated of
30. Chap. 7. Of Logic as a Study of Signs
31. Chap. 9th
32. Chap. VIII. Of the Copula
33. Chap. IX. Of relative terms
34. Chap. X. The Copula and Simple Syllogism
35. Chap. XI. On Logical Breadth and Depth
36. Chapter IV. The Conception of Time essential in Logic
37. Chapter IV. The Conception of Time essential in Logic
38. Chapter V. That the significance of thought lies in its reference to the future
39. Notes on Logic Book
40. Letter, Peirce to Abraham B. Conger
41. [ On Errors of Observation ]
42. On the Theory of Errors of Observations
43. Linear Associative Algebra: Improvement in the Classification of Vids
44. Lazelle s One Law in Nature
45. Rainfall
46. [ On Political Economy ]
47. On the Application of Logical Analysis to Multiple Algebra
48. [ Early Abstract of Photometric Researches]
49. Notes on the Fundamentals of Algebra
50. The Axioms of Geometry
51. Logical Contraposition and Conversion
52. Addition to the note for Mind
53. Sketch of the Theory of Non-Associative Multiplication
54. The Principles of Mechanics
55. Nicholas St. John Green
56. Note on the Sensation of Color
57. On the Influence of the Flexibility of the Support on the Oscillation of a Pendulum
58. On a New Class of Observations, suggested by the principles of Logic
59. Note on Grassmann s Calculus of Extension
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE
60. The Fixation of Belief
61. How to Make Our Ideas Clear
62. The Doctrine of Chances
63. The Probability of Induction
64. The Order of Nature
65. Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis
66. Comment se fixe la croyance
67. Comment rendre nos id es claires
68. [Ferrero s Esposizione del metodo dei minimi quadrati ]
69. Photometric Researches
Editorial Notes
Bibliography of Peirce s References
Chronological List, 1872-1878
Textual Apparatus
Essay on Editorial Method
Explanation of Symbols
Textual Notes
Emendations
Historical Collation
List of Variants
Word Division
Index
Preface
Editions differ in what they select and how they arrange and edit their texts. Our selecting, arranging, and editing 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, experimental psychology, 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, and in October 1973 some twenty-five Peirce scholars gathered at The Arisbe Conference in Milford, Pennsylvania, to discuss the relative merits of several alternative plans for such an edition. The first result of that discussion was that, under the auspices of the Texas Tech University Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, a small group of scholars spent the summer of 1974 checking an electroprint copy of the Peirce Papers against the originals in the Houghton Library of Harvard University and recording everything evident in the originals but not in the copies, such as watermarks, size and quality of paper, and faint pencil notations, with particular attention to whatever might assist in dating the large number of undated manuscripts. Early in 1975, Indiana University assumed responsibility for the preparation of a new edition. A Center for American Studies was established at Indiana University in Indianapolis, and the Peirce Edition Project was set up under its auspices. Two xerox copies of the electroprint copy were acquired from Texas Tech University-one to remain as arranged in Richard S. Robin s Annotated Catalogue of the Charles S. Peirce Papers , the other to be gradually rearranged and renumbered in chronological order. Supporting grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation began in July 1976, and the Project now had a director and a full-time staff of three. A Board of Advisors and a group of Contributing Editors were appointed and, after a meeting with the former in November 1977, general policies and procedures were adopted. Since 1984, the Project has had a full-time staff of six.
When work toward a new edition began in 1975, the only edition of Peirce s writings in more than one volume was the eight-volume Collected Papers (1931-1935, 1958). But in 1976 there appeared the four volumes of The New Elements of Mathematics . By that time the first part of Peirce s Contributions to THE NATION had been published, and parts 2 and 3 followed in 1978 and 1979. And in 1977 there appeared the Complete Published Works, Including Selected Secondary Materials , a 149-microfiche edition accompanied by a printed Bibliography and Index . These are all valuable editions, but none conveys a comprehensive sense of Peirce s entire work. Peirce s known writings, published and unpublished, would fill over a hundred volumes if the several thousand manuscript pages of discarded computations and scratch-sheet calculations were included. But any edition in fewer than sixty-five volumes might fairly be called Selected Writings.
The present edition will consist of twenty volumes. It will include every philosophical and logical article that Peirce published during his lifetime, and those of his scientific and mathematical articles that shed most light on the development of his thought and that remind us of the immediate scientific and mathematical background of the work he was doing in philosophy. The most distinctive feature of our edition is that Peirce s writings are arranged in a single chronological order: those he published as of their dates of publication (or oral presentation), those he did not publish as of their dates of composition. But to allow the reader to discern the degree of coherence and unity of Peirce s thought during a given period, every series of papers i