Peirce on Realism and Idealism

Re-evaluates Peirce's metaphysics, exploring his views on pragmatism, reality, truth, and the mind's relation to the external world.

List of contents

Introduction: basic realism; 1. The dual-aspect account of truth; 2. The pragmatic clarification of the idea of reality; 3. Basic idealism and objective idealism; 4. The idealistic theory of reality: idealism in the cognition series; 5. Generals: early scholastic realism; 6. Generals and vagues: late scholastic realism; 7. 'A lacuna in the completeness of reality': deficit indeterminacy.

About the author

Robert Lane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He is editor of Peirce submissions for the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and has published numerous essays on Peirce.

Summary

This book presents an original interpretation of the American philosopher Charles Peirce's views on reality, truth, and the relationship between the mind and the external world. It explores topics including pragmatism, scholastic realism, and generality, and will be important for students and scholars of American philosophy and metaphysics.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Lane, Robert (University of West Georgia) Lane, LANE ROBERT
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781108415224
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41522-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought