Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI: Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

by Charles Sanders Peirce, Paul Weiss (Editor), Charles Hartshorne (Editor)

Overview

With the present volume, the presentation of Peirce’s philosophical thought reaches its metaphysical culmination. It embodies the effort of the founder of Pragmatism to develop a metaphysics which will conform to the canons of scientific method, and at the same time provide for real novelty, objective universal laws of nature, cosmical and biological evolution, feeling, and mind. To his previously published papers on chance, continuity, God, and other metaphysical themes, the editors have added a considerable number of unpublished manuscripts which clarify and develop the implications of Peirce’s fundamental world-view. The volume contains those speculative views of Peirce which so deeply influenced his contemporaries, including his discussions of tychism and synechism and of the religious aspects of metaphysics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674138025
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1935
Pages:	944
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.05(d)

About the Author

Charles Hartshorne is Ashbel Smith Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas.

Paul Weiss is Heffer Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Editorial Note

Preface

1. A Definition of Pragmatic and Pragmatism

2. The Architectonic Construction of Pragmatism

3. Historical Affinities and Genesis

BOOK I: Lectures on Pragmatism

Lecture I: Pragmatism: The Normative Sciences

1. Two Statements of the Pragmatic Maxim

2. The Meaning of Probability

3. The Meaning of "Practical" Consequences

4. The Relations of the Normative Sciences

Lecture II: The Universal Catefories

1. Presentness

2. Struggle

3. Laws: Nominalism

Lecture III: The Categories Continued

1. Degenerate Thirdness

2. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics

3. The Irreducibility of the Categories

Lecture IV: The Reality of Thirdness

1. Scholastic Realism

2. Thirdness and Generality

3. Normative judgments

4. Perceptual judgments

Lecture V: Three Kinds of Goodness

1. The Divisions of Philosophy

2. Ethical and Esthetical Goodness

3. Logical Goodness

Lecture VI: Three Types of Reasoning

1. Perceptual Judgments and Generality

2. The Plan and Steps of Reasoning

3. Inductive Reasoning

4. Instinct and Abduction

5. The Meaning of an Argument

Lecture VII: Pragmatism and Abduction

1. The Three Cotary Propositions

2. Abduction and Perceptual judgments

3. Pragmatism - the Logic of Abduction

4. The Two Functions of Pragmatism

BOOK II: Published Papers

I: Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man

1. Whether by the simple contemplation of a cognition, independently of any previous knowledge and without reasoning from signs, we are enabled rightly to judge whether that cognition has been determined by a previous cognition or whether it refers immediately to its object

2. Whether we have an intuitive self-Consciousness

3. Whether we have an intuitive power of distinguishing between the subjective elements of different kinds of cognitions

4. Whether we have any power of introspection, or whether our whole knowledge of the internal world is derived from the observation of external facts

5. Whether we can think without signs

6. Whether a sign can have any meaning, if by its definition it is the sign of something absolutely incognizable

7. Whether there is any cognition not determined by a previous cognition

II: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities

1. The Spirit of Cartesianism

2. Mental Action

3. Thought-Signs

4. Man, a Sign

III: Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic:

Further Consequences of Four Incapacities

1. Objections to the Syllogism

2. The Three Kinds of Sophisms

3. The Social Theory of Logic

IV: The Fixation of Belief

1. Science and Logic

2. Guiding Principles

3. Doubt and Belief

4. The End of Inquiry

5. Methods of Fixing Belief

V: How to Make Our Ideas Clear

1. Clearness and Distinctness

2. The Pragmatic Maxim

3. Some Applications of the Pragmatic Maxim

4. Reality

VI: What Pragmatism Is

1. The Experimentalists' View of Assertion

2. Philosophical Nomenclature

3. Pragmaticism

4. Pragmaticism and Hegelian Absolute Idealism

VII: Issues of Pragmaticism

1. Six Characters of Critical Common-Sensism

2. Subjective and Objective Modality

BOOK III: Unpublished Papers

Chapter 1: A Survey of Pragmaticism

1. The Kernel of Pragmatism

2. The Valency of Concepts

3. Logical Interpretants

4. Other Views of Pragmatism

Chapter 2: Pragmaticism and Critical Common-Sensism

Chapter 3: Consequences of Critical Common-Seneism

1. Individualism

2. Critical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Common-Sense

3. The Generality of the Possible

4. Valuation

Chapter 4: Belief and Judgment

1. Practical and Theoretical Beliefs

2. Judgment and Assertion

Chapter 5: Truth

1. Truth as Correspondence

2. Truth and Satisfaction

3. Definitions of Truth

Chapter 6: Methods for Attaining Truth

1. The First Rule of Logic

2. On Selecting Hypotheses

Appendix

1. Knowledge

2. Representationism

3. Ultimate

4. Mr. Peterson's Proposed Discussion

Index of Proper Names

Index of Subjects