Peirce on realism and idealism

This book offers a new interpretation of the metaphysics of Charles Peirce (1839–1914), the founder of pragmatism and one of America's greatest philosophers. Robert Lane begins by examining Peirce's basic realism, his belief in a world that is independent of how anyone believes it to be. L...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lane, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The dual-aspect account of truth
  • The pragmatic clarification of the idea of reality
  • Basic idealism and objective idealism
  • The idealistic theory of reality: idealism in the cognition series
  • Generals: early scholastic realism
  • Generals and vagues: late scholastic realism
  • "A lacuna in the completeness of reality": deficit indeterminacy