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8The 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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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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21Charles 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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23Introducing Pragmatism: A Tool for Rethinking PhilosophyRoutledge. 2021.This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism. It follows pragmatism's focus on the process of inquiry rather than on abstract justifications meant to appease the skeptic. According to pragmatists, getting to know the world is a creative human enterprise, wherein we fashion our concepts in terms of how they affect us practically, including …Read more
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65Illustrations of the Logic of Science (edited book)Open Court. 2014.Charles Peirce’s Illustrations of the Logic of Science is an early work in the philosophy of science and the official birthplace of pragmatism. It contains Peirce’s two most influential papers: “The Fixation of Belief” and “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” as well as discussions on the theory of probability, the ground of induction, the relation between science and religion, and the logic of abduction. Unsatisfied with the result and driven by a constant, almost feverish urge to improve his work, P…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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27The Economics of Truth: Equilibrium Theory and the Final OpinionTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 54 (2): 162. 2018.Peirce's conception of truth in terms of the final opinion reached in the long run by a community of inquirers marks a significant departure from traditional conceptions of truth, not only because it introduces a temporal dimension, but also because it explicitly connects it to groups of people and to what those people do. If we compare this with Aristotle's classic definition—"to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not"2—we see that there is no temporal dimension there and …Read more
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Charles S. Peirce’s Centenary : Anti-nominalism, Judgment, and ReligionActa Philosophica 23 (2): 333-344. 2014.
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763Teaching Peirce to UndergraduatesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2): 189-235. 2008.Fourteen philosophers share their experience teaching Peirce to undergraduates in a variety of settings and a variety of courses. The latter include introductory philosophy courses as well as upper-level courses in American philosophy, philosophy of religion, logic, philosophy of science, medieval philosophy, semiotics, metaphysics, etc., and even an upper-level course devoted entirely to Peirce. The project originates in a session devoted to teaching Peirce held at the 2007 annual meeting of th…Read more
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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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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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830Who's Afraid of Charles Sanders Peirce? Knocking Some Critical Common Sense into Moral PhilosophyIn Cornelis De Waal & Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (eds.), The normative thought of Charles S. Peirce, Fordham University Press. pp. 83-100. 2012.In this essay I explore the potential contribution of Peirce's theory of scientific inquiry to moral philosophy. After a brief introduction, I outline Peirce's theory of inquiry. Next, I address why Peirce believed that this theory of inquiry is inapplicable to what he called "matters of vital importance," the latter including genuine moral problems. This leaves us in the end with two options: We can try to develop an alternative way of addressing moral problems or we can seek to reconcile moral…Read more
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517The Marriage of Religion and Science Reconsidered: Taking Cues from PeirceConference to Commemorate the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions, February 21-22. Events. 2014.Taking an 1893 exchange between Charles S. Peirce and Open Court editor Paul Carus as its point of departure, the paper explores the relation between religion and science while making the case that the attitude that scientists have to their subject is akin to a religious devotion. In this way it is argued that a reconciliation between science and religion cannot be confined to religion blindly accepting the results from science, but that such a reconciliation is possible only when both (re)conne…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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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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229Peirce-Arrow, by Susan Howe (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (1): 170-173. 2000.
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499Against Preposterous Philosophies of MindIn Torkild Thellefsen & Bent Sorensen (eds.), Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words, De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 297-303. 2014.
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1506The History of Philosophy Conceived as a Struggle Between Nominalism and RealismSemiotica 2010 (179): 295-313. 2010.In this article I trace some of the main tenets of the struggle between nominalism and realism as identified by John Deely in his Four ages of understanding. The aim is to assess Deely’s claim that the Age of Modernity was nominalist and that the coming age, the Age of Postmodernism — which he portrays as a renaissance of the late middle ages and as starting with Peirce — is realist. After a general overview of how Peirce interpreted the nominalist-realist controversy, Deely gives special attent…Read more
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645Locke's Criterion for the Reality of Ideas: Unambiguous but UntenableThe Locke Newsletter 28 29-50. 1997.The paper argues against the claim held, e.g., by Leibniz, that Locke employs a double standard for determining whether an object before the mind (i.e., an idea) is real. Using Locke's ectype-archetype distinction it is shown that this charge is the result of confusing Locke's criterion of reality with its application. Depending on whether it applies to a simple, substance or mode idea, the criterion works out differently. Next it is argued that although Locke maintains only a single criterion, …Read more
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334Evidentialism and the Will to Believe by Scott F. Aikin (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 51 (2): 266-271. 2015.Scott Aikin’s Evidentialism and the Will to Believe is the first book-length discussion of W.K. Clifford’s 1877 “The Ethics of Belief ” and William James’s 1896 “The Will to Believe.” Except for twenty pages, the book splits evenly between a detailed discussion of the two essays. A good book demands some good criticism, and I am hoping that the comments I make are read in that light. Evidentialism and the Will to Believe appears in the Bloomsbury Research in Analytic Philosophy series. Presumabl…Read more
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1482The Real Issue between Nominalism and Realism, Peirce and Berkeley ReconsideredTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (3): 425-442. 1996.
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633Peirce's Nominalist-Realist Distinction, an Untenable DualismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (1): 183-202. 1998.
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867Eleven Challenges to the Pragmatic Theory of TruthTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 35 (4): 748-766. 1999.
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682Why Metaphysics Needs Logic and Mathematics Doesn't: Mathematics, Logic, and Metaphysics in Peirce's Classification of the SciencesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (2): 283-297. 2005.
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715Science Beyond the Self: Remarks on Charles S. Peirce's Social EpistemologyCognitio 7 (1): 149-163. 2006.
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625Having an Idea of Matter: A Peircean Refutation of Berkeleyan ImmaterialismJournal of the History of Ideas 67 (2): 291-313. 2006.This paper explores Berkeley's denial of matter in the light of criticisms voiced by Charles S. Peirce, who wrote two extensive review essays, one in 1871 and one in 1901, on the Fraser editions of Berkeley's Works. Elaborating upon Peirce's criticisms and utilizing Peirce's semiotics and pragmatism (two doctrines for which Peirce gives partial credit to Berkeley), it is shown that Berkeley's argument against matter is inconclusive, that the hypothesis of matter can be made to fit within Berkele…Read more
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49Peirce’s System of Science: Life as a Laboratory (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 35 (106): 30-32. 2007.
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334Searching for Some Real DoubtTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2): 201-204. 2008.This project originates in a session devoted to teaching Peirce held at the 2007 annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. The session, organized by James Campbell and Richard Hart, was co-sponsored by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers.
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790The Queen of Cups—A Novel, by Mina Samuels (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (1). 2008.In part Samuels's aim with The Queen of Cups is to get a better understanding of Juliette Peirce by writing a fictionalized account of her life. This is a laudable goal that should appeal also to Peirce scholars who seek to better understand Peirce.
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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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