Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 2

Charles S. Peirce

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"For anyone seriously interested in Peirce, or in nineteenth-century American philosophy, or in American intellectual history, or in philosophy in general, or in semiotics and its philosophical import, these volumes should be required reading." —Murray G. Murphey, Semiotica

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Decisive Year and Its Early Consequences/Max H. Fisch
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Papers/C.F. Delaney
The 1870 Logic of Relatives Memoir/Daniel D. Merrill
1. [The Logic Notebook]
[The American Academy Series]
2. On an Improvement in Boole's Calculus of Logic
3. On the Natural Classification of Arguments
4. On a New List of Categories
5. Upon the Logic of Mathematics
6. Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension
7. Notes
8. [Venn's The Logic of Chance]
9. Chapter I. One, Two, and Three
10. Specimen of a Dictionary of the Terms of Logic and allied Sciences: A to ABS
11. [Critique of Positivism]
[The Peirce-Harris Exchange on Hegel]
12. Paul Janet and Hegel, by W.T. Harris
13. Letter, Peirce to W.T. Harris (24 January 1868)
14. Nominalism versus Realism
15. Letter, Peirce to W.T. Harris (16 March 1868)
16. What Is Meant by "Determined"
17. Letter, Peirce to W.T. Harris (9 April 1868)
[The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Series]
18. Questions on Reality
19. Potentia ex Impotentia
20. Letter, Peirce to W.T. Harris (30 November 1868)
21. Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man
22. Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
23. Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic
24. Professor Porter's Human Intellect
25. The Pairing of the Elements
26. Roscoe's Spectrum Analysis
27. [The Solar Eclipse of 7 August 1869]
28. Premliminary Sketch of Logic
29. [The Logic Notebook]
30. The English Doctrine of Ideas
[Lectures on British Logicians]
31. Lecture I. Early nominalism and realism
32. Ockam. Lecture 3
33. Whewell
[Practical Logic]
34. Lessons in Practical Logic
35. A Practical Treatise on Logic and Methodology
36. Rules for Investigation
37. Practical Logic
38. Chapter 2
39. Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives
40. A System of Logic
41. [Henry James's The Secret of Swedenborg]
42. Notes for Lectures on Logic to be given 1st term 1870-71
43. Bain's Logic
44. Letter, Peirce to W.S. Jevons
45. [Augustus De Morgan]
46. Of the Copulas of Algebra
47. [Charles Babbage]
[The Berkeley Review]
48. [Fraser's The Works of George Berkeley]
49. [Peirce's Berkeley Review], by Chauncey Wright
50. Mr. Peirce and the Realists
Appendix
51. Letter, J.E. Oliver to Peirce
Editorial Notes
Bibliography of Peirce's References
Chronological List, 1867-1871
Textual Apparatus
Essay on Editorial Method
Explanation of Symbols
Textual Notes
Emendations
Word-Division
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 juin 1984
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• EAN13: 9780253016669
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 15 Mo

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Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Volume 2
Observers of the Solar Eclipse of 22 December 1870 near Catania in Sicily. Standing fourth from the left is Charles S. Peirce, fourth from the right his father Benjamin; sitting in front of them is Herbert H. D. Peirce, Charles s younger brother. Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Peirce Prince, Herbert s granddaughter.
Writings of CHARLES S. PEIRCE
A CHRONOLOGICAL EDITION
Volume 2
1867-1871

E DWARD C. M OORE , Editor
M AX H. F ISCH , Consulting Editor
C HRISTIAN J. W. K LOESEL , Senior Associate Editor
D ON D. R OBERTS , Associate Editor
L YNN A. Z IEGLER , Textual Editor
Indiana University Press Bloomington
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Peirce, Charles Santiago Sanders, 1839-1914.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce.
Vol. 2- : Edward C. Moore, editor et al.
CONTENTS: -V. 2. 1867-1871.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Peirce Edition Project

Edward C. Moore, Editor
Max H. Fisch, Consulting Editor
Christian J. W. Kloesel, Senior Associate Editor
Don D. Roberts, Associate Editor
Lynn A. Ziegler, Textual Editor
Joan A. Vandegrift, Research Associate
Contributing Editors (Vol. 2)

Maryann Ayim
Jacqueline Brunning
C. F. Delaney
Donald R. Koehn
Daniel D. Merrill
Richard W. Miller
Richard A. Tursman
Advisory Board

Jo Ann Boydston
Arthur W. Burks
Carolyn Eisele
Karen Hanson
Kenneth L. Ketner
Klaus Oehler
Vincent G. Potter
Israel Scheffler
Thomas A. Sebeok
Manley Thompson
Richard A. Tursman
President, Charles S. Peirce Society
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Decisive Year and Its Early Consequences
Max H. Fisch
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Papers
C. F. Delaney
The 1870 Logic of Relatives Memoir
Daniel D. Merrill
1. [ The Logic Notebook ]
[ THE AMERICAN ACADEMY SERIES ]
2. On an Improvement in Boole s Calculus of Logic
3. On the Natural Classification of Arguments
4. On a New List of Categories
5. Upon the Logic of Mathematics
6. Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension
7. Notes
8. [Venn s The Logic of Chance ]
9. Chapter I. One, Two, and Three
10. Specimen of a Dictionary of the Terms of Logic and allied Sciences: A to ABS
11. [ Critique of Positivism ]
[ THE PEIRCE-HARRIS EXCHANGE ON HEGEL ]
12. Paul Janet and Hegel , by W. T. Harris
13. Letter, Peirce to W. T. Harris (24 January 1868)
14. Nominalism versus Realism
15. Letter, Peirce to W. T. Harris (16 March 1868)
16. What Is Meant by Determined
17. Letter, Peirce to W. T. Harris (9 April 1868)
[ THE JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY SERIES ]
18. Questions on Reality
19. Potentia ex Impotentia
20. Letter, Peirce to W. T. Harris (30 November 1868)
21. Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man
22. Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
23. Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic
24. Professor Porter s Human Intellect
25. The Pairing of the Elements
26. Roscoe s Spectrum Analysis
27. [The Solar Eclipse of 7 August 1869]
28. Preliminary Sketch of Logic
29. [ The Logic Notebook ]
30. The English Doctrine of Ideas
[ LECTURES ON BRITISH LOGICIANS ]
31. Lecture I. Early nominalism and realism
32. Ockam. Lecture 3
33. Whewell
[ PRACTICAL LOGIC ]
34. Lessons in Practical Logic
35. A Practical Treatise on Logic and Methodology
36. Rules for Investigation
37. Practical Logic
38. Chapter 2
39. Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives
40. A System of Logic
41. [Henry James s The Secret of Swedenborg ]
42. Notes for Lectures on Logic to be given 1st term 1870-71
43. Bain s Logic
44. Letter, Peirce to W. S. Jevons
45. [Augustus De Morgan]
46. Of the Copulas of Algebra
47. [Charles Babbage]
[ THE BERKELEY REVIEW ]
48. [Fraser s The Works of George Berkeley ]
49. [Peirce s Berkeley Review] , by Chauncey Wright
50. Mr. Peirce and the Realists
APPENDIX
51. Letter, J. E. Oliver to Peirce
Editorial Notes
Bibliography of Peirce s References
Chronological List, 1867-1871
Textual Apparatus
Essay on Editorial Method
Explanation of Symbols
Textual Notes
Emendations
Word-Division
Index
Preface
In an assessment of Charles Peirce as a philosopher, Ernest Nagel wrote that there is a fair consensus among historians of ideas that Charles Sanders Peirce remains the most original, versatile, and comprehensive philosophical mind this country has yet produced. 1 Although Peirce published a wide variety of papers and reviews, he published only one major work (Photometric Researches , Leipzig, 1878) and that was not in philosophy. In 1923, Morris R. Cohen edited a volume, collecting two series of Peirce s published papers, under the title of Chance, Love and Logic , but it was not until Harvard University Press published volumes 1 through 6 of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce from 1931 to 1935 under the editorship of Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss and volumes 7 and 8 in 1958 under the editorship of Arthur W. Burks that American philosophers began to be aware of the range and depth of Peirce s work.
Although Peirce is best known as the founder of the philosophical doctrine known as pragmatism, it is becoming increasingly clear that the philosophical problems that interested him the most were those of the scientist. Peirce s father, Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880), was a distinguished professor of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard University; Peirce himself received a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard in 1859, a master of arts in 1862, and a bachelor of science in chemistry in 1863.
He was employed for over thirty years by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as a scientist. In 1963 the Survey commissioned the CSS Peirce . At that time the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Rear Admiral H. Arnold Karo, wrote me that, In addition to being a logician and philosopher, Peirce made many important scientific and technical contributions to the Coast and Geodetic Survey during his thirty years of service in the bureau.
Incidental to his work for the Coast Survey, Peirce worked as an assistant at the Harvard Observatory from 1869 to 1872 and made a series of astronomical observations from 1872 to 1875 of which Solon I. Bailey says, The first attempt at the Harvard Observatory to determine the form of the Milky Way, or the galactic system, was made by Charles S. Peirce. The investigation was of a pioneer nature, founded on scant data. 2
Peirce made major contributions also in mathematics and logic. C. I. Lewis has remarked that, The head and front of mathematical logic is found in the calculus of propositional functions, as developed by Peirce and Schr der. 3
Peirce invented, almost from whole cloth, the study of signs. Ogden and Richards say that, By far the most elaborate and determined attempt to give an account of signs and their meanings is that of the American logician C. S. Peirce, from whom William James took the idea and the term Pragmatism, and whose Algebra of Dyadic Relations was developed by Schr der. 4
Peirce was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1867), the National Academy of Sciences (1877), the London Mathematical Society (1880), and the New York Mathematical Society (later the