Chance, Love, and Logic
Subtitle: Philosophical Essays
By: [by] Charles Sanders Peirce; edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen; with an essay by John Dewey; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Kenneth Laine Ketner.
Contributors: Cohen, Morris Raphael, 1880-1947.; Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Edition: Bison Books edition
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lincoln, NE, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780803287518
Subjects: Pragmatism; Science -- Philosophy; Metaphysics
Description: Chance, Love, and Logic Contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) that are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear," mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318).
Originally published by Harcourt, Brace and World (New York, 1923).
Table of contents: label: Part I: Chance and Logic (Illustrations of the Logic of Science); label: 1. The Fixation of Belief
title: 7; label: 2. How to Make Our Ideas Clear
title: 32; label: 3. The Doctrine of Chances
title: 61; label: 4. The Probability of Induction
title: 82; label: 5. The Order of Nature
title: 106; label: 6. Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis
title: 131; label: Part II: Love and Chance; label: 1. The Architecture of Theories
title: 157; label: 2. The Doctrine of Necessity Examined
title: 179; label: 3. The Law of Mind
title: 202; label: 4. Man's Glassy Essence
title: 238; label: 5. Evolutionary Love
title: 267; label: Supplementary Essay: The Pragmatism of Peirce, by John Dewey
title: 301