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22Early Defenders of Pragmatism, Edited by John Shook (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 29 (90): 5-8. 2001.
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21Peirce: a guide for the perplexedBloomsbury Academic. 2013.Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, is a hugely important and influential thinker in the history of American philosophy. His philosophical interests were broad and he made significant contributions in several different areas of thought. Moreover, his contributions are intimately connected and his philosophy designed to form a coherent and systematic whole. Contents: 1: Life and Work; Chapter 2: Logic; Chapter 3: The Doctrine of the Categories; Chapter 4: Semiotics; Chapter 5: Phil…Read more
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21The Published Works of Charles Sanders Peirce, Edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner and Joseph M. Ransdell (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 27 (84): 11-13. 1999.
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19Peirce’s Pragmatism: The Design for Thinking (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (99): 40-42. 2004.
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18Susan Haack: a lady of distinctions: the philosopher responds to critics (edited book)Prometheus Books. 2007.Sixteen original essays from outstanding international contributors together with responses from Haack on the points raised. The contributors address most of Haack’s key publications, from her early writings on metaphysics to her most recent work in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of law. Topics include: the revisability of logic, the role of emotion in reasoning, scientific integrity, postmodernism and the law, the relation of science to religion, preferential hiring, multiple aspe…Read more
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18Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein by Cheryl Misak (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (3): 565-566. 2019.Cheryl Misak’s Cambridge Pragmatism is a key work for anyone who seeks to gain a deeper understanding of twentieth-century philosophy, especially during its first half. It is commonly assumed that pragmatism petered out in the early part of the century, only to resurface in the 1970s, most notably with the work of Richard Rorty. Much of what inspired this assumption was that most major figures were keen to distance themselves from a movement that named itself pragmatism. To many, it suggested th…Read more
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18On Dewey, by Robert B. Talisse (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 28 (87): 11-12. 2000.
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17Richard Rorty: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Literature, by Richard Rumana (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 31 (95): 57-59. 2003.
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16On PeirceWadsworth. 2001.This brief text assists students in understanding Peirce's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), On Peirce is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this co…Read more
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15Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings on Semiotics 1894–1912 ed. by Francesco Bellucci (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 58 (3): 265-269. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings on Semiotics 1894–1912 ed. by Francesco BellucciCornelis de WaalEdited by Francesco BellucciCharles S. Peirce: Selected Writings on Semiotics 1894–1912 Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020; no index.With Francesco Bellucci's Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings on Semiotics 1894–1912 and the Peirceana series, which Bellucci co-edits with Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, the center of gravity in Peirce stud…Read more
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12The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890–1913 ed. by Stetson J. Robinson (review) (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 59 (1): 109-113. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890–1913 ed. by Stetson J. RobinsonCornelis de WaalEdited by Stetson J. RobinsonThe Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890–1913 Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 666pp., incl. indexThe fifth volume in the Peirceana series brings us the extensive correspondence between Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Compan…Read more
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6On MeadWadsworth. 2002.This brief text assists students in understanding Mead's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON MEAD is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this concis…Read more
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4The Oxford handbook of Charles S. Peirce (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2024.The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce brings together 35 essays on the American philosopher and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) with the aim of showing how his work is still relevant today. The volume takes its cues from Peirce's work in phenomenology and normative philosophy-where the latter includes, besides aesthetics and ethics, also logic. Within the domain of logic, attention is given to his work in formal logic as well as his work in graphical or diagrammatic logic. Ample a…Read more
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Susan Haack a Complete BibliographyIn Cornelis De Waal (ed.), Susan Haack: A Lady of Distinctions: The Philosopher Responds to Critics, Prometheus Books. 2007.In this volume comprised of sixteen essays and rebuttals, author and professor of philosophy Susan Haack responds to her fellow philosophers and her critics on a wide range of topics that involve much more than the esoteric nature of contemporary philosophy. Instead, as is Haack's forte, she asserts her views on important current issues such as how scientists conduct their work, the ethics of affirmative action and the pitfalls of preferential hiring, and how the distorted reality the postmodern…Read more
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A Pragmatist World View: George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the ActIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.This article focuses on George Herbert Mead's life and his philosophy of the act. Mead divides the act into four stages: impulse, perception, manipulation, and consummation. The impulse sets the organism in motion, whereas consummation marks the satisfaction of the desire that initiated the act. Hence, consummation brings the act to a close. This should not be taken as a linear chain of responses to neatly self-contained problematic situations. Organisms often multitask, and problematic situatio…Read more
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The Quest for Reality: Charles S. Peirce and the EmpiricistsDissertation, University of Miami. 1997.Locke's, Berkeley's and Peirce's conceptions of reality are analyzed, using Peirce's distinction between nominalism and realism as a guideline. These three authors are chosen, first, because Peirce declares for realism in his 1871 review of Berkeley, and does so in opposition to both Berkeley and Locke, and, second, because Peirce's criticism of nominalism runs roughly parallel to Berkeley's criticism of Locke. It is shown that all three conceptions of reality are hypotheses, which provides the …Read more
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The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Edited by Armen T. Marsoobian and John Ryder (review)Metaphilosophy 37 (2): 284-289. 2006.
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Charles S. Peirce’s Centenary : Anti-nominalism, Judgment, and ReligionActa Philosophica 23 (2): 333-344. 2014.
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