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  1. Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition: A Life by Joseph Brent, 1998-11-01
  2. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 4: 1879--1884 (Writings of Charles S Peirce) by Charles S. Peirce, 1989-10-01
  3. Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture by Peter Ochs, 2005-01-27
  4. The Cambridge Companion to Peirce (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
  5. A General Introduction to the Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce by James Jakób Liszka, 1996-09-01
  6. Peirce's Philosophy of Science: Critical Studies in His Theory of Induction & Scientific Method by Nicholas Rescher, 1979-06
  7. William James, Charles Peirce, and American Pragmatism (World of Philosophy) by Professor James Campbell, 2006-08-15
  8. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce by Charles Sanders Peirce, 1998-01
  9. New Essays on Peirce's Mathematical Philosophy
  10. Charles Peirce and scholastic realism,: A study of Peirce's relation to John Duns Scotus by John F Boler, 1963
  11. Introduction to the Philosophy of Charles Peirce by James Kern Feibleman, 1970-05-20
  12. Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles Peirce (Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy) by D R Anderson, 1995-01-01
  13. Charles Peirce : From Pragmatism to Pragmaticism by Karl-Otto Apel, 1995-08-01
  14. Charles S. Peirce and the Linguistic Sign (Foundations of semiotics) by David Pharies, 1985-03

21. ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY: Home Page Of The International Peirce Telecommunity
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Virtuality, Communication, and Community Thought is what it is only by virtue of its addressing a future thought which is in its value as thought identical with it, though more developed.  In this way, the existence of thought now depends on what is to be hereafter; so that it has only a potential existence, dependent on the future thought of the community.
No present actual thought (which is [in itself] a mere feeling) has any meaning, any intellectual value; for this lies not in what is actually thought, but in what this thought may be connected with in representation by subsequent thoughts, so that the meaning of a thought is altogether something virtual.
Accordingly, just as we say that a body is in motion, and not that motion is in a body, we ought to say that we are in thought, and not that thoughts are in us.

22. Peirce's Logic
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides a detailed examination of peirce's contributions to logical theory.
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Peirce's Logic
Charles Peirce's contributions to logical theory are numerous and profound. His work on relations building on ideas of De Morgan influenced Schroder, and through Schroder, Peano, Russell, Lowenheim and much of contemporary logical theory. Although Frege anticipated much of Peirce's work on relations and quantification theory, and to some extent developed it to a greater extent, Frege's work remained out of the mainstream until the twentieth century. Thus it is plausible that Peirce's influence on the development of logic has been of the same order as Frege's. Further discussion of Peirce's influence can be found in Dipert (1995). In contrast to Frege's highly systematic and thoroughly developed work in logic, Peirce's work remains fragmentary and extensive, rich with profound ideas but most of them left in a rough and incomplete form. Three of the Peirce's contributions to logic that are not as well-known as others are described below:
Three-Valued Logic
In three unnumbered pages from his unpublished notes written before 1910, Peirce developed what amounts to a semantics for three-valued logic. This is at least ten years before Emil Post's dissertation, which is usually cited as the origin of three-valued logic. A good source of information about these three pages is Fisch and Turquette (1966), which also includes reproductions of the three pages from Peirce's notes.

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24. Digital Encyclopedia Of Charles S. Peirce
Brings together the most recent writings about Pierce, and new works inspired by the logician.
http://www.digitalpeirce.org/
The Digital Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce is the first on-line encyclopedia to bring together the most recent work on Peirce, and work inspired by his thought, in several fields of research Philosophy, Logic and Mathematics, Psychology, Ethology, Anthropology, Sociology, Communication, Aesthetics, Literature and Art Studies, Theoretical Biology, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Sciences, Artificial Intelligence. The great advantage of the Encyclopedia's dynamic design is mirrored in its openness and responsiveness to new ideas. Unlike static reference works, it is kept up to date by a group of experts constantly adding new entries and modifying existing ones.

25. Transactions Of The Charles S. Peirce Society
Journal specializing in the history of American philosophy. Includes list of editors, table of contents and subscription information.
http://www.pragmatism.org/tps/
The Publication of the Charles S. Peirce Society Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy Since its founding in 1965, this has been the premier journal specializing in the history of American philosophy.
Although named after the founder of American pragmatism, all types of American thought are
covered, from the colonial period until the recent past. ISSN: 0009-1774 The Editors and the Editorial Board
Tables of Contents
Information for Contributors
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... Philosophy Department, SUNY Buffalo, New York

26. Walker Percy And Charles S. Peirce Abduction And Language
An essay by Jaime Nubiola (University of Navarra, Spain).
http://faust15-eth.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~wirth/texte/nubiola.html

27. OPT Design    Philosophy: Charles Sanders Peirce And Rene Descartes
Discusses elements in the philosophy of charles peirce in relation to Descartes.
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was born in Cambridge, Massachuetts.
Comparing and contrasting the Theories of Descartes and Peirce
For many people, even if they don't know very much about philosophy, they know the name Descartes. Those who know something about the subject would probably agree that Rene Descartes was one of the most influential thinkers, even to this day. In contrast to Descartes' way of thinking is Charles Peirce's philosophy. Although Peirce is less well known outside the philosophical realm, his thoughts have been influential in the formation of a philosophy called Pragmatism, as well as the development of American society. We are going to be examining their opposing views and their influence on our own thinking. Rene Descartes was alive in the early part of the 17th century. His basic concern is overcoming doubt. How can we overcome doubt? Is there a method that we can use that is applicable in all citations? Descartes wants to be apodictic, which is absolutely certain, about his claims. In order to do this he must begin with a foundation. This foundation must be apodictic as well if the rest of his claims are to be considered true. Descartes also wants to use a method that is logical and the idea of knowledge as systematic. In order to understand why Descartes makes the claims that he does we must first understand how he draws his conclusions. Critical to his whole theory is his need for a foundation. Since we all come from distinct backgrounds and have different inherent beliefs and judgments, it is difficult for us to come to an agreement on issues such as truth. In order to avoid this problem of who is right and why, Descartes tries come up with a method that can be used by anyone to demonstrate 'truth'. If we begin with principles that we all acknowledge as correct, we can use this method to come to an agreement about what is true. Descartes wants to make the process of acquiring knowledge into a formal procedure, so that it can not be disputed.

28. Peirce_Charles
Biography of peirce focuses on his role in mathematical history. Includes quotes and a bibliography. charles Sanders peirce. Born 10 Sept 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Peirce_Charles.html
Charles Sanders Peirce
Born: 10 Sept 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 19 April 1914 in Milford, Pennsylvania, USA
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to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index
Charles S Peirce was the son of Benjamin Peirce and studied at Harvard and worked for many years on the Coast and Geodetic Survey. He worked on geodesy but became interested in conformal map projections where he invented a quincuncial map projection using elliptic functions He was also interested in the Four Colour Problem and problems of knots and linkages studied by Kempe . He then extended his father's work on associative algebras and worked on mathematical logic and set theory. Except for courses on logic he gave at Johns Hopkins University, between 1879 and 1884, he never held an academic post. T S Fiske , writing about the New York Mathematical Society (before it became the American Mathematical Society) in [23], describes Charles Peirce:- Conspicuous among those who in the early nineties attended the monthly meetings ... was the famous logician, Charles S Peirce. His dramatic manner, his reckless disregard of accuracy in what he termed 'unimportant details', his clever newspaper articles describing the meetings of our young Society interested and amused us all. ... He was always hard up, living partly on what he could borrow from friends, and partly on what he got from odd jobs such as writing book reviews ... He was equally brilliant, whether under the influence of liquor or otherwise, and his company was prized by the various organisations to which he belonged; and he was never dropped from any of them even though he was unable to pay his dues. He infuriated Charlotte Angas

29. Charles S. Peirce: Writings
Comment rendre nos idées claires. Revue Philosophique de la France et de L'Étranger7 (January 1879), 3957. http//www.peirce.org webmaster@peirce.org
http://www.peirce.org/writings.html
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Series
"On an Improvement in Boole's Calculus of Logic."
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
"On the Natural Classification of Arguments."
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
"On a New List of Categories."
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
"Upon the Logic of Mathematics."
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
"Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension."
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Journal of Speculative Philosophy Cognition Series
"Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man."
Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
"Some Consequences of Four Incapacities."
Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
"Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities."
Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
Illustrations of the Logic of Science
"The Fixation of Belief."
Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15.
"How to Make Our Ideas Clear."
Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878), 286-302.

30. Peirce_Charles
Biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.Category Science Math History People peirce, charles Sanders......charles Sanders peirce. charles S peirce was the son of Benjamin peirce and studiedat Harvard and worked for many years on the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Born: 10 Sept 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 19 April 1914 in Milford, Pennsylvania, USA
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to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index
Charles S Peirce was the son of Benjamin Peirce and studied at Harvard and worked for many years on the Coast and Geodetic Survey. He worked on geodesy but became interested in conformal map projections where he invented a quincuncial map projection using elliptic functions He was also interested in the Four Colour Problem and problems of knots and linkages studied by Kempe . He then extended his father's work on associative algebras and worked on mathematical logic and set theory. Except for courses on logic he gave at Johns Hopkins University, between 1879 and 1884, he never held an academic post. T S Fiske , writing about the New York Mathematical Society (before it became the American Mathematical Society) in [23], describes Charles Peirce:- Conspicuous among those who in the early nineties attended the monthly meetings ... was the famous logician, Charles S Peirce. His dramatic manner, his reckless disregard of accuracy in what he termed 'unimportant details', his clever newspaper articles describing the meetings of our young Society interested and amused us all. ... He was always hard up, living partly on what he could borrow from friends, and partly on what he got from odd jobs such as writing book reviews ... He was equally brilliant, whether under the influence of liquor or otherwise, and his company was prized by the various organisations to which he belonged; and he was never dropped from any of them even though he was unable to pay his dues. He infuriated Charlotte Angas

31. Dr. Uwe Wirth Biographie Und Bibliographie, Veranstaltungen, Veröffentlichungen
In den letzten 50 Jahren konnte ein steigendes Interesse am Thema abduktive Inferenz festgestellt werden, die charles Sanders peirce als ersten Schritt des Denkens und Interpretierens bezeichnete. Ein Artikel von U. Wirth.
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32. References For Peirce_Charles
References for charles S peirce. 9 (3) (1982), 302310. P Weiss, peirce, charlesSaunders, Dictionary of American Biography 14 (1934), 398-403.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Peirce_Charles.html
References for Charles S Peirce
  • Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  • Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books:
  • J Brent, Charles Sanders Peirce : A Life (Indiana, 1993).
  • G Debrock and M Hulswit (eds.), Living doubt : essays concerning the epistemology of Charles Sanders Peirce (Dordrecht, 1994).
  • G Deledalle, Charles S Peirce : An intellectual biography (Amsterdam, 1990).
  • C Eisele and R M Martin (eds.), Studies in the Scientific and Mathematical Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce
  • R Kevelson, Charles S Peirce's method of methods (Amsterdam, 1987).
  • D D Roberts, The existential graphs of Charles S Peirce (The Hague-Paris, 1973).
  • R S Robin, Annotated catalogue of the papers of Charles S Peirce (Amherst, Mass. 1967). Articles:
  • V A Bazhanov, C S Peirce's influence on the logical work of N A Vasiliev, Modern Logic
  • R Beatty, Peirce's development of quantifiers and of predicate logic, Notre Dame J. Formal Logic
  • N L Biggs, E K Lloyd and R J Wilson, C S Peirce and De Morgan on the four-colour conjecture, Historia Math.
  • 33. Peirce And Philo
    Discusses charles peirce's account of conditionals, hypotheticals, and what he takes from Cicero's account of the debate between Philo and Diodorus.
    http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jzeman/peirce_and_philo.htm
    Peirce and Philo Jay Zeman Charles Peirce, logician and philosopher, contributed notably to the theory of the conditional. Actually, from his perspective and in his terminology it is better, as we shall see, to link his work on the conditional with his discussions of the hypothetical proposition. Peirce spoke often of the consequentia de inesse the concept of which is intimately linked with the material, or "Philonian" conditional; indeed, we shall see him calling himself a Philonian. And it is not uncommon to hear Peirce—at least prior to the last decade of his life—declared a Philonian, whose fundamental analysis of the conditional was essentially the same as that of Philo (and of more modern types like Russell and like Quine). In this paper, I intend first to examine Peirce’s understanding of "Philonian"; I will then look at the Philonian or " de inesse " conditional in the context of his overall logical thought. It is commonly held that Peirce in his early years held to the "nominalistic" Philonian conditional, and only later "surrendered" it in favor of a more "realistic" view; the study we are here undertaking will indicate that this does not adequately reflect his position. As we shall see, Peirce at one time or another called himself a Philonian. He was, of course, also quite aware that Philo is historically paired with his teacher Diodorus. That pairing, in fact, is so integral to the meaning of "Philonian" that without consideration of it, "Philonian conditional" becomes a somewhat pretentious term for "truth-functional implication,"

    34. Peirce's Arisbe: FAQ#1 Who Is Charles Peirce?
    peirce's Arisbe FAQ 1 Who is charles peirce?
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    35. ARISBE: Jaime Nubiola - Scholarship On The Relations Between Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Article by Jaime Nubiola, discussing Rorty's claim of a close similarity between Pierce's pragamtism and Wittgenstein's views in the Investigations.
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles S. Peirce
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    jnubiola@unav.es To appear in I. Angelelli y M. Cerezo, eds., Proceedings of the III Symposium on History of Logic , Gruyter, Berlin, 1996 Since there is no normal pagination on a web page, paragraph numbers are assigned here in lieu of that, included in brackets and placed flush right, just above the paragraph, for purposes of scholarly reference. It is now over thirty years since Richard Rorty pointed out the similarities between Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (1953) and the philosophical framework of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), the American logician who was the founder of pragmatism. The view put forward by Rorty is that Peirce had envisaged and repudiated positivist empiricism fifty years earlier, and had developed a set of insights and a philosophical mood very similar to those of contemporary philosophers working under the influence of the later Wittgenstein. The affinity between Peirce's philosophy and the more recent tendency born of the rejection of the Tractatus and the positivism of the Vienna Circle, gave rise to an expectation that the study of Peircean pragmatism and the writings of the later Wittgenstein in ever closer comparison would shed increasing light on both philosophers' work (Rorty 1961).

    36. Fernando Lisboa: Site Pessoal | My One Site: PEIRCE
    Objects and images of architecture within charles S. peirce semiotics. Questions drawing as method of knowledge architecture as Art. English and Portuguese
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    Site Pessoal My One Site http://home.kqnet.pt/id010313/ 2nd Preliminary Ver. 16-Feb-2002 Best view with IE 5.x Indeed, if any one wishes to know what a scholastic commentary is like, and what the tone of thought in it is, he has only to contemplate a Gothic cathedral. The first quality of either is a religious devotion, truly heroic. One feels that the men who did these works did really believe in religion as we believe in nothing (Peirce, CP 8.11)
    Nota Muito Breve seguida por Bibliografia Essencial Short Outline followed by Essential Readings
    Which are Peirce's key concepts? Hard question since
    Peirce's philosophy is so large and complex that each of
    us will refract his discourse according to our own
    concerns. Anyway, there is the concept of Sign and
    Semiosis and Interpretant and Immediate Object and
    Dynamic Object , the latter one seeming to re-ference, to re-interpret, the classic notion of Substance. Nevertheless, I and You, I'm sure, we would want to choose this one: INQUIRY, meaning Research, Investigation, Questioning. It is
    all about stressing doubt, endless doubt, our fallible

    37. Charles Sanders Peirce -- Philosophy Books And Online Resources
    charles Sanders peirce at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base. charlesSanders peirce 1839 1914. Texts charles Sanders peirce.
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    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is unique in American intellectual history and is of seminal importance for modern thought. He was a tireless and brilliant thinker whose extensive writings have received international attention for over a century. Remarkably, however, much of what Peirce wrote remains in manuscript form, unpublished and in significant disarray. There has never been a comprehensive edition of Peirce's writings organized chronologically and edited according to current scholarly practices. The Peirce Edition Project was established in 1976 and has been part of IUPUI's School of Liberal Arts since 1983. Its mission is to organize and date the manuscripts and to produce an approved scholarly edition of Peirce's writings. This work is assisted by an internationally recognized team of advisors and contributors. Five volumes (of a projected thirty) have been published by Indiana University Press and plans are underway for a parallel electronic edition.

    38. Semiotics
    Short description of semiotics. Includes information about the ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure and charles Sanders peirce.
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    Semiotics is the study of signs and signifying practices, is largely the creation of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. Independently, they worked to better understand how certain structures were able to produce meaning rather than work on the traditional matter of meaning itself. Saussure's work on semiotics is better known, and he argued that there was no inherent or necessary relationship between that which carries the meaning (the signifier, usually a word or symbol) and the actual meaning which is carried (the signified). For example, the word "car" is not actually a car - the meaning of car could be carried by any random string of letters. It just so happens that, in English, that meaning is carried by the letter c-a-r. Peirce's ideas about semiotics distinguished between three types of signs: icon, index and symbol. Whether a sign belongs in one category or another is dependent upon the

    39. The Peirce Edition Project
    Organize and date the manuscripts to produce an approved scholarly edition of peirce's writings (Indianap Category Science Math History People peirce, charles Sanders...... charles Sanders peirce (18391914), a uniquely American philosopherand scientist, is of seminal importance for modern thought.
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    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), a uniquely American philosopher and scientist, is of seminal importance for modern thought. He was a tireless and brilliant thinker whose extensive writings have received international attention for over a century. Remarkably, however, much of what Peirce wrote remains in manuscript form, unpublished and in significant disarray. There has never been a comprehensive edition of Peirce's writings organized chronologically and edited according to current scholarly practices. The Peirce Edition Project was established in 1976 and has been part of IUPUI's School of Liberal Arts since 1983. Its mission is to organize and date the manuscripts and to produce an approved scholarly edition of Peirce's writings. This work is assisted by an internationally recognized team of advisors and contributors. Six volumes (of a projected thirty) have been published by Indiana University Press and plans are underway for a parallel electronic edition.

    40. How To Make Our Ideas Clear
    1878 article charles Pierce.
    http://www.peirce.org/writings/p119.html
    How to Make Our Ideas Clear
    Charles S. Peirce
    Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878), 286-302. I Whoever has looked into a modern treatise on logic of the common sort, will doubtless remember the two distinctions between clear and obscure conceptions, and between distinct and confused conceptions. They have lain in the books now for nigh two centuries, unimproved and unmodified, and are generally reckoned by logicians as among the gems of their doctrine. A clear idea is defined as one which is so apprehended that it will be recognized wherever it is met with, and so that no other will be mistaken for it. If it fails of this clearness, it is said to be obscure. This is rather a neat bit of philosophical terminology; yet, since it is clearness that they were defining, I wish the logicians had made their definition a little more plain. Never to fail to recognize an idea, and under no circumstances to mistake another for it, let it come in how recondite a form it may, would indeed imply such prodigious force and clearness of intellect as is seldom met with in this world. On the other hand, merely to have such an acquaintance with the idea as to have become familiar with it, and to have lost all hesitancy in recognizing it in ordinary cases, hardly seems to deserve the name of clearness of apprehension, since after all it only amounts to a subjective feeling of mastery which may be entirely mistaken. I take it, however, that when the logicians speak of "clearness," they mean nothing more than such a familiarity with an idea, since they regard the quality as but a small merit, which needs to be supplemented by another, which they call

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