[Guides for the Perplexed 01] • Peirce by De Waal, Cornelis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover-Page Half-Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Abbreviations 1 Life and work

1.1 The birth of a polymath 1.2 An outsider 1.3 The Peirce papers 1.4 Classifying the sciences

2 Mathematics and philosophy

2.1 Kant’s conception of mathematics 2.2 The exact study of ideal states of things 2.3 Mathematical reasoning 2.4 Mathematics, philosophy, and logic

3 Phenomenology and the categories

3.1 Phenomenology 3.2 Derivation of the categories

4 The normative science of logic

4.1 Grounding logic in ethics and esthetics 4.2 Instinct versus reason 4.3 The elementary modes of reasoning 4.4 Deduction and induction 4.5 Abduction 4.6 The logic of relatives 4.7 The geometry of thought: Existential graphs

5 Semeiotics, or the doctrine of signs

5.1 Two schools of semeiotics 5.2 Peirce’s definition of the sign 5.3 The interpretant 5.4 The object 5.5 Three questions 5.6 A classification of signs

6 Philosophy of science

6.1 The sole purpose of inquiry is to fix belief 6.2 Four ways of fixing belief 6.3 The demarcation of science

7 Pragmatism

7.1 “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” 7.2 Proving pragmatism 7.3 Some applications of the pragmatic maxim

8 Truth and reality

8.1 Getting clear on truth and reality 8.2 Truth as the end of inquiry 8.3 Nominalism, realism, idealism

9 Mind, God, and cosmos

9.1 A critique of determinism 9.2 Three modes of evolution 9.3 The origin and nature of natural laws 9.4 Mind, self, and person 9.5 The development of concrete reasonableness 9.6 God, science, and religion

Notes

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9

Bibliography Index