Title: The pragmatic philosophy of C. S. Peirce.
Authors: Thompson, Manley Hawn, 1917-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1953
Subjects: Peirce, Charles S.; Pragmatism
Contents: I. New logic and a new list of categories -- The natural classification of arguments -- The new approach to logic -- The first statement of the categories -- Problems in the theory of the categories -- II. The faculties of knowledge -- The method of determining the faculties of mental action -- The faculties of mental action -- The faculties of inquiry -- III. The methods of obtaining knowledge -- The methods of fixing belief -- The meaning of ideas -- The truth of ideas -- Conclusions from the search for a method -- IV. Scientific metaphysics -- The construction of a philosophy: Objective idealism and Tychism -- Synechism: Mind and matter -- Agapasm and evolution -- Metaphysics as a part of philosophy -- V. The order of the sciences -- Phenomenology, speculative grammar, and ontology -- Induction and probability -- Speculative rhetoric and objective logic -- Logic and normative sciences -- VI. Pragmatic philosophy -- Pragmatism and perceptual judgments -- Critical common-sensism and self-control -- Inquiry and inquirer -- Pragmatism and philosophy: Conclusion.