This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a fifteen-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume devoted to this period of Peirce’s philosophical work.
This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a fifteen-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume devoted to this period of Peirce’s philosophical work.
Peirce moved to the house he named Arisbe in Milford, Pennsylvania in 1888. Here he lived in relative isolation and continued to work on his scientific and semiotic philosophy. Peirce developed a modern logic that was influenced by changes he saw in the interdisciplinary study of science and technology, transforming his Pragmatism into his Pragmaticism. This action regarding Pragmaticism was a reaction against the downfall of deductive logic, and led Peirce to believe in the vagueness (“would-be”) of logical realism in deduction and later abduction. In Peirce’s later phase, he situated the “new” mathematics as a labyrinth of semiotic signs through which the quasi-mind of the logician could find a specialized sense to intuit the evolutionary semiosis of reality. The chapters in this volume examine all major dimensions of his thought during this period.
Late Peirce will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in Peirce, American philosophy, pragmatism, logic, and semiotics.
Introduction Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Dinda L. Gorlée 1.The Telos of
Peirces Late Thought Nathan Houser
2. A Mind on Fire: The Late Peirce
Vincent M. Colapietro
3. The Late Peirces Turn to the Normative Sciences
James Jakób Liszka
4. Peirces Semiotic Grounding of Pragmatism: A Look at
the 1907 Manuscript R318 Cornelis de Waal
5. Peirces Late Lexicography:
Baldwins Dictionary (1900-1901) Jeffrey R. Di Leo
6. Pragmaticism as a
Doctrine of Applied Sciences Elize Bisanz
7. Toward Peirces Later Version of
Symbolic Logic: Transforming Experimental Language into Algebraic Graphs
Dinda L. Gorlée
8. The Correspondence between Peirce and Welby, Two
(In)actual Philosophers Susan Petrilli
9. The Semiotic Morphology of Problem
Solving: A Framework based on Peirces Ten Classes of Signs Joao Queiroz and
Pedro Atã
10. Understanding Peirces A Neglected Argument for the Reality of
God of 1908 Jaime Nubiola
11. Musement as the Platform for Instinctual
Abductions: Logical Interpretants as Progenitors of Phenomenological
Thirdness Donna E. West
12. C. S. Peirces Answers to the Anthropocene Lucia
Santaella.
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symplok, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.
Dinda L. Gorlée is a semiotician of applied linguistics (Peirce, Jakobson, Wittgenstein) and translation theoretician with interests in philosophical, musical, and interarts studies. She works in Wittgenstein Archives (University of Bergen, Norway), but is member of the Collegium to lead the International Association of Semiotics (IASS) to the future
