Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition A Life

Name: Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition A Life
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ISBN: 9780253211613

ISBN-10: 0253211611

ISBN-13: 9780253211613

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: Joseph Brent

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Charles Sanders Peirce was born in September 1839 and died five months before the guns of August 1914. He is perhaps the most important mind the United States has ever produced. He made significant contributions throughout his life as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, a historian of science, a lifelong student of medicine, and, above all, a philosopher, whose special fields were logic and semiotics. He is widely credited with being the founder of pragmatism. In terms of his importance as a philosopher and a scientist, he has been compared to Plato and Aristotle. He himself intended to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle. In this edition Brent…

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List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/22/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Facets of the Puzzle



Father, Son, and Melusina: 1839-1871



"Our Hour of Triumph is What Brings the Void": 1871-1882



Expulsion from the Academy and the Search for a New Eden: 1883-1891



Paradise Lost: 1890-1900



Endgame: 1900-1914



The Wasp in the Bottle


Notes


Bibliography


Index