Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words (eBook)

Foreword 5
Preface by Cornelis de Waal 9
Charles Sanders Peirce – Primary Sources and Abbreviations 25
1 Aesthetic Value in Peirce’s Theistic Naturalism 27
2 Man, Word, and the Other 31
3 Semiotic Gold at the End of Peirce’s Rainbow: on the Fallible Pursuit of Reality 39
4 Testimony and the Self 47
5 Against Pretend Doubt 53
6 Motion and Thought – a Generic Metaphor 59
7 Peirce on Realism and Nominalism: the Metaphysics and Ethics of a Community of Inquirers 65
8 Peircean Inquiry and Secret Communication 71
9 Peirce on Non-Accidental Causes of Belief 79
10 Scientific Method and the Realist Hypothesis 83
11 Logic is Rooted in the Social Principle (and vice versa) 89
12 Reasoning is Communal in Method and Spirit 99
13 The Bottomless Lake of Consciousness 107
14 Physical Laws are not Habits, while Rules of Life are 113
15 Semiosis: from Taxonomy to Process 121
16 Is Peirce’s Fallibilism an Ethical Attitude? 131
17 Peirce’s Fallibilism in the Context of the Theory of Cognition and the Theory of Inquiry 135
18 Diagrams or Rubbish 141
19 How does Cognition come from Chance? 147
20 Peirce’s Graph of “a Sort of Equilateral Hyperbola” 153
21 Icons and Indices Assert Nothing 157
22 Bohemians, Like Me 163
23 Peirce’s Evolutionary Thought 171
24 Peirce’s Guess at the Sphinx’s Riddle: The symbol as the Mind’s Eyebeam 179
25 Love as Attention in Peirce’s Thought 187
26 A Person is Like a Cluster of Stars 191
27 Crystal-Clearness: For the Second-Rates 195
28 On the Nature of Rare Minds & Useless Things
29 The Heart as a Perceptive Organ 213
30 On the “Realistic Hypostatization of Relations” 219
31 Peirce’s Role in the History of Logic: Lingua Universalis and Calculus Ratiocinator 227
32 Pure Zero 233
33 Peirce on Theory and Practice 239
34 Peirce and the Discipline of Metaphysics 247
35 Peirce’s First Rule of Reason and the Process of Learning 255
36 Bridging Ancient and Contemporary Knowing 261
37 Peirce’s Process Ontology of Relational Order 265
38 The Degenerate Monkey 271
39 On Digital Photo-Index 279
40 Semiotic Propedeutics for Logic and Cognition 285
41 The First Correlate 289
42 Logic, Ethics and the Ethics of Logic 297
43 Beauty and the Best 305
44 Iconicity in Peircean situated cognitive Semiotics 309
45 The Purloined Inkstand 317
46 A Very Short Version of Diagrammatic Reasoning 321
47 Against Preposterous Philosophies of Mind 323
48 Dream and Drama: Peirce’s Copernican Turn 331
49 Words that Matter: Peirce and the Ethics of Scientific Terminology 335
50 The Curious Case of Peirce’s Anthropomorphism 341
51 Peirce and the “Flood of False Notions” 351
52 Peirce on Science, Practice, and the Permissibility of ‘Stout Belief’ 357
53 Logic, Time, and Knowledge 361
54 The Hypoicons 365
55 The Phenomenon of Reasoning 373
56 Peirce’s Abduction 379
57 Terminology and Scientific Advancement 385
58 Fibers of Abduction 391
59 Experience and Education 399
60 Peirce, Pragmatism, and Purposive Action 405
61 Peirce’s Method of Work 411
62 Metaphysics of Wickedness 419
63 A Pragmaticist Appreciates the Past 425
64 Peirce’s Logotheca 431
65 Animals use Signs, They just don't know it 437
66 A Purely Mathematical Way for Peirce's Semiotics 441
67 Pragmatism, Cultural Lags and Moral Self-Reflection 447
68 Peirce on Hegel, Pragmaticism, and “the Triadic Class of Philosophical Doctrines” 455
69 Science as a Communicative Mode of Life 463
70 Not an Individual, but a dual Self (at least) 469
71 Science and Metaphysics 477
72 The Semiosphere: A Synthesis of the Physio-, Bio-, Eco-, and Technospheres 483
73 Peirce’s Persistent Interest in Economics 491
74 The River of Pragmatism 501
75 Visualizing Reason 509
76 Self-Control, Self-Surrender, and Self-Constitution: The Large Significance of an “Afterthought” 513
77 The Peircean Concept of Existential Graph and Discovery in Mathematics 519
78 Peirce on Metaphor 529
79 Peirce’s System of 66 Classes of Signs 533
80 Peirce’s Philosophical Theology, Continuity, and Communication with the Deity 539
81 The Play of Musement 547
82 On Peirce’s Visualization of the Classifications of Signs: Finding a Common Pattern in Diagrams 553
83 Truth and Satisfaction: The Gist of Pragmaticism 563
84 Collateral Experience and Interpretation: Narrative Cognition and Symbolization 571
85 “Don’t You Think So?” 579
86 Collateral Experience as a Prerequisite for Signification 583
87 Comparing Ideas: Comparational Analysis and Peirce’s Phenomenology 587
88 Developing from Peirce’s Late Semeiotic Realism 595
References 601
Index 627