Peirce : a guide for the perplexed /
De Waal, Cornelis,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-173) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1: Life and Work Chapter 2: Logic Chapter 3: The Doctrine of the Categories Chapter 4: Semiotics Chapter 5: Philosophy of Science Chapter 6: Pragmatism but Not Practicalism Chapter 7: A Pragmatist Theory of Truth Chapter 8: The Perpetual Fight against Nominalism Chapter 9: The Impact of Darwin Chapter 10: Mathematics Chapter 11: Mind and Self Chapter 12 (Conclusion): The Architectonic Philosopher Bibliography Notes Index .
Contents note continued: 6.1.The sole purpose of inquiry is to fix belief -- 6.2.Four ways of fixing belief -- 6.3.The demarcation of science -- 7.Pragmatism -- 7.1."How to Make Our Ideas Clear" -- 7.2.Proving pragmatism -- 7.3.Some applications of the pragmatic maxim -- 8.Truth and reality -- 8.1.Getting clear on truth and reality -- 8.2.Truth as the end of inquiry -- 8.3.Nominalism, realism, idealism -- 9.Mind, God, and cosmos -- 9.1.A critique of determinism -- 9.2.Three modes of evolution -- 9.3.The origin and nature of natural laws -- 9.4.Mind, self, and person -- 9.5.The development of concrete reasonableness -- 9.6.God, science, and religion.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Life and work -- 1.1.The birth of a polymath -- 1.2.An outsider -- 1.3.The Peirce papers -- 1.4.Classifying the sciences -- 2.Mathematics and philosophy -- 2.1.Kant's conception of mathematics -- 2.2.The exact study of ideal states of things -- 2.3.Mathematical reasoning -- 2.4.Mathematics, philosophy, and logic -- 3.Phenomenology and the categories -- 3.1.Phenomenology -- 3.2.Derivation of the categories -- 4.The normative science of logic -- 4.1.Grounding logic in ethics and esthetics -- 4.2.Instinct versus reason -- 4.3.The elementary modes of reasoning -- 4.4.Deduction and induction -- 4.5.Abduction -- 4.6.The logic of relatives -- 4.7.The geometry of thought: Existential graphs -- 5.Semeiotics, or the doctrine of signs -- 5.1.Two schools of semeiotics -- 5.2.Peirce's definition of the sign -- 5.3.The interpretant -- 5.4.The object -- 5.5.Three questions -- 5.6.A classification of signs -- 6.Philosophy of science --
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.