Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 6

Charles S. Peirce

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The definitive edition of the writings of America's most important philosopher.

Volume 6 of this landmark edition contains 66 writings mainly from the unsettled period in Peirce's life just after he moved from New York to Milford, Pennsylvania, followed shortly afterward by the death of his mother. The writings in this volume reveal Peirce's powerful mind probing into diverse issues, looking for an underlying unity, but, perhaps, also looking for direction.

Sujets

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

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 02 juin 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780253016690
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Volume 6
This volume is dedicated to
J OHN G ALLMAN
Amicus librorum
Conjectural south elevation of Peirce s Milford, Pennsylvania, home in 1888-the year that Charles and Juliette bought the house. The simple farmhouse would be buried within a series of major expansions during the final twenty-six years of Peirce s life; today it serves as a Park Service facility within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Adapted from Charles S. Peirce House, a 1983 National Park Service Historic Structure Report by Penelope Hartshorne Batcheler .
Writings of CHARLES S. PEIRCE
A CHRONOLOGICAL EDITION
Volume 6 1886-1890

E DITED BY THE P EIRCE E DITION P ROJECT
N ATHAN H OUSER , General Editor
A NDR D E T IENNE , Associate Editor
C ORNELIS DE W AAL , Assistant Editor
C ATHY L. C LARK , Editorial Associate
L UISE H. M ORTON , Research Associate
J ONATHAN R. E LLER , Textual Editor
A LBERT L EWIS , Associate Editor
D. B RONT D AVIS , Technical Editor
L EAH C UMMINS , Editorial Associate
D IANA D. R EYNOLDS , Editorial Assistant
Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis
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.

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2000 by Peirce Edition Project
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Revised for volume 6)
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914. Writings of Charles S. Peirce

Vol. 6- : Peirce Edition Project
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Contents: v. 1. 1857-1866.-v. 2. 1867-1871.-[etc.]-v. 6. 1886-1890
1. Philosophy. I. Peirce Edition Project II. Title
B945.P4 1982 191 79-1993
ISBN 0-253-37201-1 (v. 1)
ISBN 0-253-37206-2 (v. 6)
1 2 3 4 5 04 03 02 01 00
The Peirce Edition Project
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Editors

Nathan Houser, Director
Jonathan Eller, Textual Editor
Andr De Tienne, Associate Editor
Albert Lewis, Associate Editor
Cornelis de Waal, Assistant Editor
D. Bront Davis, Technical Editor
Cathy L. Clark, Editorial Associate
Leah Cummins, Editorial Associate
Luise H. Morton, Research Associate
Diana D. Reynolds, Editorial Assistant

Contributing Editors (Vol. 6)
Douglas Anderson
Irving Anellis
Joseph Dauben
Randall Dipert
Webb Dordick
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Carl Hausman
Daniel Merrill
Emily Michael
Jos Vericat
J. Jay Zeman
Advisory Board
John D. Barlow
Lucia Santaella
Joseph L. Brent
Arthur W. Burks
Vincent Colapietro
Don L. Cook
Joseph Dauben
G rard Deledalle
Randall Dipert
Umberto Eco
John Gallman
Susan Haack
Karen Hanson
Peter Hare
Robert H. Hirst
Christopher Hookway
Paul Nagy
Klaus Oehler
Helmut Pape
Hilary Putnam
Don D. Roberts, Chair
Richard Robin
Sandra Rosenthal
Israel Scheffler
Thomas A. Sebeok
Thomas L. Short
William A. Stanley
Paul Weiss
Contents
Preface
Chronology
Bibliographical Abbreviations in Editorial Matter Introduction

1. Boolian Algebra-Elementary Explanations
CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ON THE ART OF REASONING
2. [ Circular for Course on the Art of Reasoning ]
3. [ Follow-up Letter to Circular ]
4. A Few Specimens of Exercises in the Art of Reasoning
5. Directions to Agents
6. [ Letter to New Students ]
7. [ Orientation Letter to Marie Noble ]
8. [ Letter to Noble on the Nature of Reasoning ]
9. [ Reasoning Exercises: Number Series, Relational Graphs, and Card Games ]
10. Boolian Algebra [ Three Lessons ]
11. [ Two Letters from J. B. Loring on Algebra Lessons ]
12. [ Reply to Loring ]
13. [ Additional Exercises in Boolian Algebra ]
14. [ Science and Immortality ]
15. Logical Machines
THE PEIRCE-GURNEY DISPUTE OVER PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING
16. Criticism on Phantasms of the Living: An Examination of an Argument of Messrs. Gurney, Myers, and Podmore
17. Remarks on Professor Peirce s Paper (by E. Gurney)
18. Mr. Peirce s Rejoinder
19. Remarks on Mr. Peirce s Rejoinder (by E. Gurney)
20. Number
21. Logic of Number
A GUESS AT THE RIDDLE
22. [ Contents ]
23. Chapter I. Trichotomy
24. [ Chapter III. ] The Triad in Metaphysics
25. Chapter IV. The Triad in Psychology
26. Chapter V. The Triad in Physiology
27. Chapter VI. The Triad in Biological Development
28. Chapter VII. The Triad in Physics
29. [ Trichotomic ]
30. Pendulum Observations at Fort Conger
31. Reflections on the Logic of Science
32. Note on the Analytical Representation of Space as a Section of a Higher Dimensional Space
33. Ordinal Geometry
34. [ Mathematical Monads ]
35. Review of Stock s Deductive Logic
36. Report on Gravity at the Smithsonian, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Cornell
37. [ Reasoning ]
38. On a Geometrical Notation
39. On the Numbers of Forms of Sets
40. The Formal Classification of Relations
41. Dual Relatives
42. Notes on Geometry of Plane Curves without Imaginaries
43. Review of Noel s The Science of Metrology
44. [ Logic and Spiritualism ]
45. Herbert Spencer s Philosophy
46. Review of Collins s Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy
47. Outsider Wants More Light

Editorial Symbols
Annotations
Bibliography of Peirce s References
Chronological Catalog, January 1887-April 1890
Supplement to W5 Chronological List, 1884-1886
Essay on Editorial Theory and Method
Textual Apparatus
Headnotes, Textual Notes, Emendations, Rejected
Substantives, Alterations, Line-End Hyphenation
Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text
Index
Preface
This is the sixth volume of the chronological edition of the writings of Charles S. Peirce, started in 1975 under the leadership of Max H. Fisch and Edward C. Moore and expected to run to thirty volumes. The edition is selective but comprehensive and includes all writings, on any subject, believed to shed significant light on the development of Peirce s thought. The selections are edited according to the guidelines of the Modern Language Association s Committee on Scholarly Editions, and Volume 6 has been awarded the Committee s seal as an approved edition.
During the six years since Volume 5 appeared, the Peirce Edition Project has been reorganized and its production methods revamped to more fully integrate computing technology at all stages of operation and to put a system in place that can better support parallel volume editing. The integrity and continuity of the edition has remained a principal concern, but there have been a few changes in policy and practice that should be noted. These changes concern (1) the manuscript base that supports the edition, (2) the expected publication order of forthcoming volumes, and (3) the internal organization and style of the volumes.
1. The Peirce Edition Project will no longer attempt to definitively reorganize all of Peirce s manuscripts and to assign new chronologically-determined manuscript numbers. That effort, which involved only a virtual reorganization as the manuscript originals are not physically located in Indianapolis, was found to be unnecessarily time-consuming because it required the thorough study and reorganization of all Peirce s manuscripts, including many that were not candidates for publication. For the purposes of the chronological edition, a less definitive rearrangement of manuscripts is satisfactory, one that integrates every manuscript within a unified chronology of all of Peirce s writings, but which accepts in many cases the manuscript arrangements of the holding archives. The chronological catalogs beginning with this volume will number Peirce s writings in their order of composition year by year, after the style of the Burks catalog in Volume 8 of the Collected Papers , and manuscripts will be identified by their Robin numbers (for Harvard s Houghton Library collection) or by standard archive identifiers (for other collections). Future volumes will continue to be chronological, with their published texts generally identified by selection number and title rather than by a newly assigned manuscript number. (See the introduction to the Chronological Catalog, pp. 512-14, for further discussion.)
2. Plans for forthcoming volumes are now being reconsidered and some revisions have already been made. For example, some advance work has been assigned on the manuscripts for Peirce s 1901-02 Minute Logic and 1903 Lowell Lectures and it is possible that the volumes containing those writings will be publ