Brunning, Jacqueline.

The Rule of Reason : The Philosophy of C. S. Peirce. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (329 pages) - Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series . - Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series .

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- The Place of C.S. Peirce in the History of Logical Theory -- Inference and Logic According to Peirce -- The Logical Foundations of Peirce's Indeterminism -- A Tarski-Style Semantics for Peirce's Beta Graphs -- The Tinctures and Implicit Quantification over Worlds -- Pragmatic Experimentalism and the Derivation of the Categories -- Classical Pragmatism and Pragmatism's Proof -- The Logical Structure of Idealism: C.S. Peirce's Search for a Logic of Mental Processes -- Charles Peirce and the Origin of Interpretation -- Sentiment and Self-Control -- A Political Dimension of Fixing Belief -- The First Rule of Reason -- The Dynamical Object and the Deliberative Subject -- Hypostatic Abstraction in Self-Consciousness -- David Savan: In Memoriam -- CONTRIBUTORS.

The essays explore Peirce's work from various perspectives, considering the philosophical significance of his contributions to logic; the foundations of his philosophical system; his metaphysics and cosmology; his theories of inquiry and truth; and his theories of mind, agency, and selfhood.

9781442682276


Peirce, Charles S.-(Charles Sanders),-1839-1914.


Electronic books.

B945.P44 R854 1997

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