Charles S. Peirce. Selected Writings on Semiotics, 1894–1912 / / ed. by Francesco Bellucci.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• HerausgeberIn: Bellucci, Francesco,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 325 p.)

Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) is widely recognized as America’s greatest philosopher, the originator of pragmatism, and one of the founders of modern mathematical logic. He was also a pioneer in the field of "semiotics," the general theory of signs, and many have regarded him as the father of the contemporary form of the discipline. The volume is a specialized selection of unpublished writings spanning almost twenty years (1894–1913) that are essential to understand Peirce’s views about signs, their classification, and the relations between semiotics and logical inquiry. It comprises twenty-two selections, a historico-critical introduction, and an apparatus of editorial annotations. The selections are prepared following the methods of scholarly editing of philosophical texts. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in areas such as Peirce studies, the history of American philosophy and pragmatism, logic and history of logic, the history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, semiotics, and language sciences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbrevations of Peirce’s works -- Introduction -- Texts -- 1 The Essence of Reasoning -- 2 That Categorical and Hypothetical Propositions are one in essence, with some connected matters -- 3 Minute Logic -- 4 Reason’s Rules -- 5 On the Foundations of Mathematics -- 6 Logical Tracts. N° I. On Existential Graphs -- 7 [Principles of Logic] -- 8 [Logic Notebook] -- 9 Notes on Portions of Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature -- 10 The Basis of Pragmaticism -- 11 [Logic] -- 12 Amazing Mazes. The Fourth Curiosity -- 13 Logic. Chapter 1. Common Ground -- 14 Significs and Logic -- 15 The Rationale of Reasoning -- 16 Of Reasoning in general -- 17 Notes Preparatory to a Criticism of Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics -- 18 Fragments -- References