The Rule of Reason : : The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce / / ed. by Jacqueline Brunning, Paul Forster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Douglas R.,; Brunning, Jacqueline,; Burch, Robert W.,; Colapietro, Vincent M.,; Forster, Paul,; Haack, Susan,; Hausman, Carl R.,; Hintikka, Jaakko,; Hookway, Christopher,; Levi, Isaac,; Normore, Calvin G.,; Pape, Helmut,; Robin, Richard S.,; Rosenthal, Sandra B.,; Short, T.L.,; Zeman, Jay,
• HerausgeberIn: Brunning, Jacqueline,; Forster, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Studies in Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of Pragmatism, was an American philosopher, logician, physicist, and mathematician. Since the publication of his collected papers in 1931, interest in Peirce has grown dramatically. His work has found audiences in such disciplines as philosophy, computer science, logic, film studies, semiotics, and literary criticism. While Peirce scholarship has advanced considerably since its earliest days, many controversies of interpretation persist, and several of the more obscure aspects of his work remain poorly understood. The Rule of Reason is a collection of original essays examining Peirce's thought by some of the best-known scholars in the field. The contributors investigate outstanding issues and difficulties in his philosophy and situate his views in both their historical and their contemporary contexts. Some of the essays clarify aspects of Peirce's philosophy, some defend its contemporary significance, and some do both. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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