Conversations on Peirce : reals and ideals / Douglas R. Anderson, Carl R. Hausman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Douglas R.

Contributor:

Hausman, Carl R.

Series:

American philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Peirce, Charles S.

Physical Description:

xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Summary:

The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authors-and their colleagues and students-over the past decade and a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which Charles Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and a realist. The dialogue began as an exploration of Peirce's explicit uses of these ideas and then turned to consider the way in which answers to the initial question shed light on other dimensions of Peirce's architectonic.

The essays explore the nature of semiotic interpretation, perception, and inquiry. Moreover, considering the roles of idealism and realism in Peirce's thought led to considerations of Peirce's place in the historical development of pragmatism. The authors find his realism turning sharply against the nomi-nalistic conceptions of science endorsed both explicitly and implicitly by his nonpragmatist contemporaries. And they find his version of pragmatism holding a middle ground between the thought of John Dewey and that of Josiah Royce. The essays aim to invite others to consider the import of these central themes of Peircean thought. Book jacket.

Contents:

Conversation I: Pragmatism, Idealism, Realism

1 Peirce on Berkeley's Nominalistic Platonism / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug, Peter Groff Groff, Peter 3

2 Who's a Pragmatist: Royce, Dewey, and Peirce at the Turn of the Century / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 16

3 Two Peircean Realisms: Some Comments on Margolis / Carl R. Hausman Hausman, Carl R., Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 44

4 The Degeneration of Pragmatism: Peirce, Dewey, Rorty / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 58

Conversation II Perception and Inquiry

5 Peirce's Dynamical Object: Realism as Process Philosophy / Carl R. Hausman Hausman, Carl R. 75

6 Another Radical Empiricism: Peirce 1903 / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 100

7 Peirce on Interpretation / Carl R. Hausman Hausman, Carl R. 114

8 Peirce and Pearson: The Aims of Inquiry / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug, Michael J. Rovine Rovine, Michael J. 132

Conversation III Cultural Considerations

9 The Pragmatic Importance of Peirce's Religious Writings / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 149

10 Realism and Idealism in Peirce's Cosmogony / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 166

11 Love of Nature: The Generality of Peircean Concern / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 178

12 Developmental Theism: A Peircean Response to Fundamentalism / Doug Anderson Anderson, Doug 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-251) and index.

ISBN:

0823234681

9780823234677

0823234673

9780823234684

OCLC:

721887489

Publisher Number:

99948275662