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NOTES ONI TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS Peirce's writings are to be found in a variety of sources, and I have drawn on many, though ofcourse not all, ofthem in putting together this book. The standard source for Peirce materials was for many years the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, edited by Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss, and Arthur Burks. These volumes remain valuable works, but readers should note that they are constructed topically. This means that single texts are often divided and that pieces from different times are sometimes set side by side. Readers must therefore pay close attention to the editors' remarks. Moreover, in some places in these volumes, the text includes cut versions of manuscripts in which the omissions are not noted by the editors. It is therefore advisable to check with original manuscripts when possible. Since 1982 a new collection of Peirce's writings has been under way: Writings ofCharles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition , ed. by Max H. Fisch, Christian Kloesel, Nathan Houser, and others. Presently five volumes are available. These volumes have very useful introductions and present the reader with complete texts ordered chronologically. Writings also includes Peirce's work in fields other than philosophy and thus gives the reader a fuller sense ofthe scope ofhis interests and abilities. As this edition develops , it will playa more and more central role in Peirce scholarship. Besides these two large collections, there are a number of smaller collections and single texts that provide access to Peirce's thought. Two of these are edited by Carolyn Eisele. The New Elements ofMathematics by Charles S. Peirce includes four volumes of Peirce's writings on mathematics and logic, and Historical Perspectives on Peirce's Logic ofScience contains many important papers that do not appear in any other place. Recently, Kenneth Ketner and Hilary Putnam have produced a single volume dealing with Peirce's I xi xii I TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS 1898 Cambridge lectures entitled Reasoning and the Logic of Things. It is useful because, unlike the Collected Papers, it presents the lectures in order and in their entirety; it is not, however, a critical edition. There are also a number of paperback collections available that are useful for the classroom. Among these are The Essential Peirce (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), edited by Kloesel and Houser; Peirce on Signs (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991), by James Hoopes; and Philosophical Writings ofPeirce (New York: Dover Publications, 1955), by Justus Buchler. Writings that Peirce published can also be found on microfiche in Ketner's Charles Sanders Peirce: Complete Published Works, including Selected Secondary Materials, presently available from the Philosophy Documentation Center. This collection is referenced inA Comprehensive Bibliography ofthe Published Works ofCharles Sanders Peirce, by Ketner, second revised edition (Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1986). Peirce wrote numerous book reviews over the CO\lrse ofhis career , and many ofthese can be found in Ketner and Cook's Charles Sanders Peirce: Contributions to The Nation. He also carried on extensive correspondences with William James, Francis Russell, Victoria Welby and others. Presently only the Welby correspondence is available and is found in Semiotic and Signifies: The Correspondence between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby. The rest ofthe correspondence is located in a variety o(manuscript collections ; at present the Peirce Edition Project is working to locate and collect Peirce's letters. Peirce's manuscripts are located in Houghton Library at Harvard University, and many of them can be obtained on microfilm . Copies ofthis collection are also available at the Peirce Edition Project in Indianapolis. These manuscripts have been catalogued by Richard S. Robin inAnnotated Catalogue ofthe Papers ofCharles S. Peirce (Amherst: University ofMassachusetts Press, 1967) and "The Peirce Papers: A Supplementary Catalogue;" in Transactions ofthe Charles S. Peirce Society 7 (1971): 37-57. Peirce often wrote numerous drafts oftexts, and the manuscripts therefore remain crucial for understanding his published work and for seeing the development ofhis ideas. The two essays that I use in the text are reprinted from their original published sources: "The Fixation of Belief," The Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1878): 1-15; and "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God," The Hibbert Journal 7 (October 1908): 90-112. In my text, I will refer to Peirce's other writings by way of the abbreviations listed below. [18.222.109.228] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 23:21 GMT) xiii I TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS CP Collected Papers ofCharles Sanders Peirce, edited by C. Hartshorne, P...