Charles Peirce and Modern Science

ISBN-13: 9781009223546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

T. L. Short

Opis

Argues that Peirce wrote philosophy as a scientist, expanded empiricism, and conceived of science as responsible for its own philosophy.

Recenzje

'T. L. Short's book is an enormously important contribution to Peirce scholarship that masterfully weaves together many different strands from Peirce's writings to present a rich, detailed, and tightly argued account of his view of science, his work as a scientist, and how that view and that work informed, motivated, and nourished his philosophy. Even the most knowledgeable Peirce scholars will come away from Short's book with a deeper understanding of familiar ideas and doctrines–like Peirce's pragmatism, realism, phenomenology, view of the normative sciences, etc.–and how they relate to each other and to Peirce's life as a working scientist.' Robert Lane, University of West Georgia

Spis treści

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.