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Author Rosenthal, Sandra B

Title Charles Peirce's pragmatic pluralism / Sandra B. Rosenthal
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages)
Series SUNY series in philosophy
SUNY series in philosophy.
Contents Introduction -- 1. World, Truth, and Science -- 2. Meaning as Habit. a) Habit and the Dynamical Object -- b) Habit and "The Given" -- 3. Habit, Temporality, and Peirce's Proofs of Realism -- 4. Pragmatic Experimentalism and the Derivation of the Categories -- 5. Peirce's Pragmatic Metaphysics: The Foundation for Pluralism
Summary This work runs counter to the traditional interpretations of Peirce's philosophy by eliciting an inherent strand of pragmatic pluralism that is embedded in the very core of his thought and that weaves his various doctrines into a systematic pattern of pluralism. Rosenthal gives a new design to the seeming bedrock of Peirce's position: convergence toward the final ultimate opinion of the community of interpreters in the idealized long run. Focusing frequently on passages from Peirce's writings which have been virtually ignored in the more traditional interpretations of his work, this book shows the way in which Peirce's position, far from lying in opposition to the Kuhnian interpretation of science, provides strong and much needed metaphysical and epistemic underpinnings for it in a way which avoids the pitfalls of false alternatives offered by the philosophical tradition. The book examines in depth the various features of Peirce's position that enter into these underpinnings. Among the topics explored are meaning, truth, perception, world, sign relations, realism, categorical inquiry, phenomenology, temporality, and speculative metaphysics. -- Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index
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Subject Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
SUBJECT Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 fast
Peirce, Charles S. swd
Subject Pragmatism -- History -- 19th century
Pluralism -- History -- 19th century
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Pluralism
Pragmatism
Pragmatismus
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 93046977
ISBN 058505567X
9780585055671
1438417829
9781438417820