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Charles Peirce and Modern Science

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book interprets Peirce's writings as informed by the spirit of modern science - systematic inquiry, not system-building - thus mitigating their notorious difficulties. It shows that Peirce's experimental work expanded empiricism, subverting the fact/value dichotomy. And it describes Peirce's ironic opposition of modern science to modernity.

List of contents










1. Peirce's life in science: 1859-91; 2. Peirce's concept of science; 3. Modern science contra classical philosophy; 4. The meaning of pragmatism; 5. Misleading appearances of system; 6. Devolution of the cosmogonic program; 7. Experiments expanding empiricism; 8. Phaneroscopy and realism; 9. Normative science; 10. Modern science contra modernity.

About the author

Professor Thomas Short is President, Charles S. Peirce Society, 1990, Chairman, Board of Advisors to the Peirce Edition Project, 2001–2010 and President, Peirce Foundation, 2006–2014. His book, Peirce's Theory of Signs, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.

Summary

This book interprets Peirce's writings as informed by the spirit of modern science – systematic inquiry, not system-building – thus mitigating their notorious difficulties. It shows that Peirce's experimental work expanded empiricism, subverting the fact/value dichotomy. And it describes Peirce's ironic opposition of modern science to modernity.

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