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- Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines.
This anthology, the first one-volume work devoted to Peirce's writings on semiotic, provides a much-needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce's semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce's theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.
This anthology, the first one-volume work devoted to Peirce's writings on semiotic, provides a much-needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce's semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce's theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-13
- 2. [A Treatise on Metaphysics]
- pp. 16-22
- 3. On a New List of Categories
- pp. 23-33
- 7. [Eraser's The Works of George Berkeley]
- pp. 116-140
- 8. On the Nature of Signs
- pp. 141-143
- 9. The Fixation of Belief
- pp. 144-159
- 10. How to Make Our Ideas Clear
- pp. 160-179
- 12. A Guess at the Riddle
- pp. 186-202
- 13. James's Psychology
- pp. 203-211
- 14. Man's Glassy Essence
- pp. 212-230
- 15. Minute Logic
- pp. 231-238
- 17. Lectures on Pragmatism
- pp. 241-245
- 18. ["Pragmatism" Defined]
- pp. 246-248
- 20. The Basis of Pragmaticism
- pp. 253-259
- Bibliography
- pp. 279-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469616827
Related ISBN(s)
9780807819920, 9780807843420, 9781469616810
MARC Record
OCLC
864900063
Pages
294
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No