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

ISBN-13: 9780253211613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str.

Joseph Brent

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" Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable." --The New York Review of Books..". a fine biography."--The New York Times Book Review..". an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of science." --Publishers WeeklyIn this expanded paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography of a true American original, the philosopher-polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Brent refines his interpretation of Peirce's thought and character based on new research, and has added a glossary and a detailed chronology.