Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture

ISBN-13: 9780521570411 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 372 str.

Peter Ochs

Opis

This is the first study of Charles Peirce's philosophy as a form of writing and the first study of his pragmatic writings as a critique of the modern attempt to change society by writing philosophy. Ochs argues that, as corrected by the pragmatists, the task of modern philosophy is, through writing, to diagram the otherwise hidden rules through which modern sociey repairs itself. Peirce labelled this elemental writing "enscribing," or "scripture." Redescribing Peirce's pragmatism as "the logic of scripture," Peter Ochs suggests that Christians and Jews may in fact re-read pragmatism as a logic of Scripture: that is, as a modern philosopher's way of diagramming the Bible's rules for repairing broken lives and healing societal suffering.

Recenzje

"This book is an intellectual jaw-breaker...an immensely rewarding study." Pro Ecclesia

Spis treści

Part I. Pierce's Pragmatic Writing: 1. Introduction: reading Peirce's pragmatism; 2. Pragmatic methods of reading and interpretation; 3. Problems in Peirce's early critique of cartesianism; 4. Problems in Peirce's early theory of pragmatism; 5. Problems in Peirce's normative theory of pragmatism, 1878–1903; 6. A pragmatic reading of Peirce's lectures on pragmatism; Part II. Pierce's Pragmatic Writing: 17. Irremediable vagueness in Peirce's pragmaticist writings: a plain sense reading; 8. Pragmaticism re-read: from common-sense to the logic of scripture.