Peirce and the threat of nominalism / Paul Forster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forster, Paul, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Peirce, Charles S.

Nominalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Peirce & the Threat of Nominalism

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains Peirce's challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and shows its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics. It will be essential reading both for Peirce scholars and for those new to his work.

Contents:

1. Nominalism as demonic doctrine

2. Logic, philosophy and the special sciences

3. Continuity and the problem of universals

4. Continuity and meaning: Peirce's pragmatic maxim

5. Logical foundations of Peirce's pragmatic maxim

6. Experience and its role in inquiry

7. Inquiry as self-corrective

8. Theories of truth: Peirce versus the nominalists

9. Order from chaos: Peirce's evolutionary cosmology

10. A universe of chance: foundations of Peirce's indeterminism

11. From inquiry to ethics: the pursuit of truth as moral ideal.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21304-5

1-139-06303-0

1-283-11230-2

1-139-07525-X

9786613112309

1-139-08207-8

1-139-07980-8

1-139-07751-1

0-511-92122-5

1-139-06948-9

OCLC:

726734760