Living Doubt

Essays concerning the epistemology of Charles Sanders Peirce
1994
ISBN: 978-0-7923-2898-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1410 g

Reihe: Synthese Library

(1839--1914) has often been referred to as one of the most important North American philosophers, but the real extent of his philosophical importance is only now beginning to emerge. Peirce's `pragmaticism' (his own term) may provide the key to an epistemological theory which avoids both the Scylla of foundationalism and the Charybdis of relativism. Peirce's `Logic', linked to a conception of knowledge and of science, is increasingly coming to be recognised as the only possible one.
In , 26 papers are presented by some of the world's leading philosophers, demonstrating the rich and cosmopolitan variety of approach to Peirce's epistemology. The contributions are grouped under three general headings: Knowledge, truth and the pragmatic principle; Peirce and the epistemological tradition; and Knowledge, language and semeiotic.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hulswit, M.

Debrock, G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Existenzphilosophie, Lebensphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Knowledge, Truth and the Pragmatic Principle.- The Products of Pragmatism.- Realism and Antifoundationalism.- Foundations, Circularity, and Transcendental Arguments.- Some Aspects of Peirce’S Theory of Knowledge.- Determinate Meaning and Analytic Truth.- Peirce’s Arguments for his Pragmatistic Maxim.- Evolutionary Epistemology and Pragmatism.- The Antinomy of the Liar and the Concept of ‘True Proposition’ in Peirce’s Semeiotic.- The Relevance of the Concept of Relation in Peirce.- Pragmatics and Semeiotic: The Peircean Version of Ontology and Epistemology.- Peirce’s Epistemology as a Generalized Theory of Language.- Peirce and the Epistemological Tradition.- Peircean vs. Aristotelian Conception of Truth.- Reason, Will and Belief: Insights from Duns Scotus and C.S. Peirce.- Peirce and Descartes.- Peirce and Bolzano.- Peirce and Wittgenstein’s on Certainty.- Some Polish Contributions to Fallibilism.- Peirce, Lakatos and Truth.- Logical Intention and Comparative Principles of Empirical Logic.- Peirce’s Puzzle and Putnam’s Progress: Why Should I be Reasonable?.- Peirce and Davidson: Man is his Language.- Knowledge, Language and Semeiotic.- Peirce’s Semeiotic Naturalism.- Perception, Conception and Linguistic Reproduction of Events and Time: The Category of Verbal Aspect in the Light of C.S. Peirce’s Theory of Signs.- A Survey of the use and Usefulness of Peirce in Linguistics, in France in Particular.- Color as Abstraction.