Living Doubt Essays concerning the epistemology of Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839--1914) has often been referred to as one of the most important North American philosophers, but the real extent of his philosophical importance is only now beginning to emerge. Peirce's `pragmaticism' (his own term) may provide the key to an epistemological the...

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Other Authors: Debrock, G. (Editor), Hulswit, M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge, Truth and the Pragmatic Principle
  • The Products of Pragmatism
  • Realism and Antifoundationalism
  • Foundations, Circularity, and Transcendental Arguments
  • Some Aspects of Peirce’S Theory of Knowledge
  • Determinate Meaning and Analytic Truth
  • Peirce’s Arguments for his Pragmatistic Maxim
  • Evolutionary Epistemology and Pragmatism
  • The Antinomy of the Liar and the Concept of ‘True Proposition’ in Peirce’s Semeiotic
  • The Relevance of the Concept of Relation in Peirce
  • Pragmatics and Semeiotic: The Peircean Version of Ontology and Epistemology
  • Peirce’s Epistemology as a Generalized Theory of Language
  • Peirce and the Epistemological Tradition
  • Peircean vs. Aristotelian Conception of Truth
  • Reason, Will and Belief: Insights from Duns Scotus and C.S. Peirce
  • Peirce and Descartes
  • Peirce and Bolzano
  • Peirce and Wittgenstein’s on Certainty
  • Some Polish Contributions to Fallibilism
  • Peirce, Lakatos and Truth
  • Logical Intention and Comparative Principles of Empirical Logic
  • Peirce’s Puzzle and Putnam’s Progress: Why Should I be Reasonable?
  • Peirce and Davidson: Man is his Language
  • Knowledge, Language and Semeiotic
  • Peirce’s Semeiotic Naturalism
  • Perception, Conception and Linguistic Reproduction of Events and Time: The Category of Verbal Aspect in the Light of C.S. Peirce’s Theory of Signs
  • A Survey of the use and Usefulness of Peirce in Linguistics, in France in Particular
  • Color as Abstraction