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Truth and the end of inquiry : a Peircean account of truth
This book elucidates and defends C.S. Peirce’s pragmatist account of truth. Peirce was interested in exploring truth’s connections to the practices of inquiry, belief, and assertion. This distinctly pragmatic project resulted in the view that truth is what would be agreed upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. The view that a belief is true if it would be indefeasible connects truth to human practices, but which takes truth to be something to be discovered. That is, Peirce’s view of truth is much more objectivist than some currently popular brands of pragmatism. In this expanded edition, advances in the understanding of Peirce’s theory of truth are noted, and include a new chapter which shows how Peirce’s view of truth is friendly to moral judgements.
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Peirce and the threat of nominalism
\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition
Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passe? This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in human cognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant's critical philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius, influenced the development of nineteenth-century American philosophy. The book identifies the central role of the imagination in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.
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Charles Sanders Peirce in his own words : 100 years of semiotics, communication and cognition
\"This book is published 100 years after the death of the American polymath Charles Sanders Peirce to celebrate the first century of scholarship on his work.\"-- Preface.
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Peirce's Last House: How the Charles S. Peirce Monument in Milford Cemetery Came to Be
An account of the Charles S. Peirce Society's project to build a graveside monument for Charles S. Peirce, from its inception to the final dedication ceremony in Milford, Pennsylvania. Keywords: Charles Peirce, Juliette Peirce, Arisbe, Milford, Pinchot, Frederic H. Young, Preston Tuttle, Carolyn Eisele, Caroline DePuy, Eugene Baudin, Charles S. Peirce Society, Columns Museum, Grey Towers, Milford Cemetery, Hotel Fauchère, Peirce's grave, Peirce Monument
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Peirce's Cosmological Argumentation: God as Ens necessarium
Charles Peirce begins his best-known text about religious metaphysics by defining the proper name \"God\" as Ens necessarium . In two previously unpublished manuscripts, he advocates the hypothesis of such a \"necessary being\" as the only \"rational explanation\" that is \"adequate to account for the sum total of reality,\" namely, \"the three universes\" that together encompass \"all the phenomena there are.\" Combining key statements from those passages into a series of distinct steps yields a cosmological argumentation for this conclusion, one resembling that of Gottfried Leibniz. In conjunction with Peirce's other relevant writings, it has implications for the attributes of God, as well as for the relationship between God and the universe, while also raising questions that call for further study.
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Towards a Conception of the Continuous Structure of Cognition. A Peircist Approach
This paper presents a model of the continuous structure of Cognition based on several theses proposed by Charles S. Peirce in his youth and in his mature period. In this model, cognitions are discontinuous parts on a continuum and a cognitive process becomes \"individually-synthetic,\" as a hypostatic abstraction from discontinuous transformations of informational fluxes in the continuous course of experience. That is, they are salient regions or neighborhoods on a continuum rather than points, and the relations of succession and precession among them are inferential, fluid, time sensitive, and goal-directed. First, this paper will outline the theses found in the young Peirce's work, which inspire a conception of continuous Cognition. Two questions will be raised regarding such a conception: (1) at what point does a particular act of cognition conclude? and (2) how should we characterize individual cognitions? To address these questions, the paper will later introduce the concept of continuity that Peirce developed in his mature years. The synthetic character of the continuum leads to the formulation of the concepts of neighborhood and synthetic individuality. These notions support the conception of a continuous model of Cognition in which the relations of succession and precession between individual finite cognitions are explained. The paper ends with a brief reflection regarding the possibility of developing this model of continuous Cognition as a theory of extended cognition.
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