Charles S. Peirce and the philosophy of science : papers from the Harvard Sesquicentennial Congress

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Moore, Edward C. (Edward Carter), 1917-1993.

Contributor:

Moore, Edward C. (Edward Carter), 1917-1993, Contributor.

Conference Name:

Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress (1989 : Harvard University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Peirce, Charles S.

Science--Philosophy--Congresses.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Place of Publication:

Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A compilation of selected papers presented in 1989 at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress at Harvard U. Though known as one of the greatest American philosophers, Peirce (1839-1914) was himself a physical scientist, and one of the themes in his work that has been of greatest interest to students of his thought centers around his view of the philosophy of science and its logic. He also made major contributions in fields as diverse as mathematical logic and psychology, and essentially invented the field of semiotics--the science of signs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science - Edward C. Moore; Part 1. Logic and Mathematics; 1. Peirce on the Conditions of the Possibility of Science - C.F. Delaney; 2. Peirce's Realistic Approach to Mathematics: Or, Can One Be a Realist without Being a Platonist? - Claudine Engel-Tiercelin; 3. Peirce as Philosophical Topologist - R. Valentine Dusek; 4. Peirce and Propensities - James H. Fetzer; 5. Induction and the Evolution of Conceptual Spaces - Peter Gardenfors

6. Abduction, Justification, and Realism - Anthony J. Graybosch7. Peirce and the Logic of Logical Discovery - Leila Haaparanta; 8. Truth, Laudan, and Peirce: A View from the Trenches - Shelby D. Hunt; 9. Peirce and Statistics - Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.; 10. Peirce's View of the Vague and the Definite - Joseph Margolis; 11. The Test of Experiment: C. S. Peirce and E. S. Pearson - Deborah G. Mayo; 12. Pragmatism, Abduction, and Weak Verification - Jeremiah McCarthy; 13. Peirce's Theory of Statistical Explanation - Ilkka Niiniluoto; 14. Peirce on Problem Solving - Peter Robinson

Part 2. The Physical Sciences15. Peirce as Participant in the Bohr-Einstein Discussion - Peder Voetmann Christiansen; 16. From Peirce to Bohr: Theorematic Reasoning and Idealization in Physics - Eliseo Fernandez; 17. The Role of Potentiality in Peirce's Tychism and in Contemporary Discussions in Quantum Mechanics and Microphysics - Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou; 18. Aristotle and Peirce on Chance - Philip H. Hwang; Part 3. The Life of the Mind; 19. Peirce's Definitions of the Phaneron - Andre De Tienne

20. An Application of Peirce's Valency of Relations to the Phenomenon of Psychological Dissociation - Martin Lemon21. Knowing One's Own Mind - Gerald E. Myers; 22. Peirce's Psychophysics: Then and Now - Peter J. Behrens; 23. Peirce and Self-Consciousness - Antoni Gomila; 24. The Relevance of Peirce for Psychology - Clyde Hendrick; 25. Peircean Benefits for Freudian Theory: The Role of Abduction in the Psychoanalytic Enterprise - Matthias Kettner; 26. The Valuation of the Interpretant - James Jakob Liszka

27. The Riddle of Brute Experience: An Argument for a Revision of Psychoanalytic Theory Based on Peircean Phenomenology - Alfred S. Silver28. Memory, Morphology, and Mathematics: Peirce and Contemporary Neurostudies - George W. Stickel; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-585-18413-5