From time and chance to conciousness [sic]
Subtitle: studies in the metaphysics of Charles Peirce : papers from the sesquicentennial Harvard congress
By: edited and with an introduction by Edward C. Moore and Richard S. Robin.
Contributors: Moore, Edward C. 1917-; Robin, Richard S.; Charles S. Peirce Society.; Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress (1989 : Harvard University)
Publisher: Berg
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford; Providence, RI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 -- Congresses.; Metaphysics -- Congresses.
Other titles: From time and chance to consciousness.
Description: Charles Peirce (1837-1914) was a physicist, chemist, and mathematician. He has also been described as the finest philosopher the United States has yet produced. He belongs to a long line of physical scientists reaching from Aristotle to Einstein - including contemporaries such as Planck, Schrodinger and Heisenberg - for whom physics was not enough, and who went beyond physics to metaphysics and cosmology.

These are selected papers from the Harvard Congress commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Peirce. The papers are devoted primarily to the metaphysics on which Peirce based the philosophical doctrine of pragmatism - a doctrine that was first proposed by Peirce and later developed by William James and John Dewey.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers from the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, sponsored by the Charles S. Peirce Society and held at Harvard University, Sept. 5-10, 1989.