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Index
The Arguments of the Philosophers
Contents
Preface
Note on references
Introduction
PART ONE Peirce’s Project: the Pursuit of Truth
I Logic, Mind and Reality: Early Thoughts
1 Logic and psychology
2 Nominalism and the spirit of Cartesianism
3 Four denials
4 The logical conception of mind
(a) Deduction, induction and hypothesis
(b) Thoughts and signs
(c) Reality and the validity of induction
5 Realism
II Truth and the Aims of Inquiry
1 Introduction
2 The first stage: 1870–78
3 Peirce’s project: logic and naturalism
4 Ultimate standards: ethics and aesthetics
5 Truth and the aims of inquiry
6 Conclusion
III Categories
1 Categories and logic
2 Logic, reduction and cognition
(a) The ‘New List’
(b) The remarkable theorem
3 Phenomenology
4 The categories and reality
IV Assertion and Interpretation: the Theory of Signs
1 Introduction
2 Thirdness and the sign relation
3 The assertions of a scientific intelligence
(a) Assertive force and proposition
(b) Icon, index and symbol
(c) Conditionals and predication
4 Objects and interpretants
5 The scope of semiotics
Conclusion to Part One
PART TWO Knowledge and Reality
V Perception and the Outward Clash
1 Introduction
2 Percepts and perceptual judgments: the elements of perception
3 Indexical reference and individual existence
4 Generality: thirdness and continuity
VI Mathematical Reasoning and the a priori
1 Introduction
2 Iconic representation and mathematical practice
3 Mathematical discovery and mathematical necessity
4 Certainty and necessity
VII The Growth of Knowledge: Induction and Abduction
1 Introduction
2 Quantitative induction and probability
3 Qualitative induction and abduction
4 Critical commonsensism
VIII Pragmatism
1 Introduction: the pragmatist principle
2 Pragmatism and realism
3 Pragmatism and reality
4 Seductive persuasions, scientific proofs and the philosophical proof of pragmatism
IX Evolutionary Cosmology and Objective Idealism
1 Introduction: logic and metaphysics
2 Law and explanation
3 The evolution of reality
4 Conclusion: realism and idealism
Notes
References
Index
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