Charles Peirce and modern science / T. L. Short.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Short, T. L. (Thomas Lloyd), 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Peirce, Charles S.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Philosophy and science.

Civilization, Modern--19th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Philosophy, American--19th century.

Philosophy, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

In this book, T. L. Short places the notorious difficulties of Peirce's important writings in a more productive light, arguing that he wrote philosophy as a scientist, by framing conjectures intended to be refined or superseded in the inquiries they initiate. He argues also that Peirce held that the methods and metaphysics of modern science are amended as inquiry progresses, making metaphysics a branch of empirical knowledge. Additionally, Short shows that Peirce's scientific work expanded empiricism on empirical grounds, grounding his phenomenology and subverting the fact/value dichotomy, and that he understood statistical explanations in nineteenth-century science as reintroducing the idea of final causation, now made empirical. Those innovations underlie Peirce's late ideas of a normative science and of philosophy as a branch of science. Short's rich and original study shows us how to read Peirce's writings and why they are worth reading.

Contents:

Peirce's life in science : 1859-91

Peirce's concept of science

Modern science contra classical philosophy

The meaning of pragmatism

Misleading appearances of system

Devolution of the cosmogonic program

Experiments expanding empiricism

Phaneroscopy and realism

Normative science

Modern science contra modernity.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2022).

ISBN:

1-009-22349-6

1-009-22350-X

1-009-22353-4