Project MUSE®: Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy - Latest Articles
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922338
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T. L. Short’s new book, Charles Peirce and Modern Science (2022), presents a penetrating account of Charles S. Peirce as a scientific philosopher. Short reminds the admirers of Peirce’s philosophy that during 1859–1891 Peirce was working in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Harvard Observatory, engaged with astronomical computation, celestial measurement, photometric research on the brightness of stars, and measurement of the earth’s force of gravity. Besides geodesy and astronomy, the young Charles was also occupied with chemistry, mathematics, logic, experimental psychology, and the history of science. Short argues convincingly that this scientific background had no accidental relation to Peirce’s
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/343/image/coversmallShort on Peirce as a Scientific Philosopher2024-03-14text/htmlen-USShort on Peirce as a Scientific Philosopher2024-03-142024TWOProject MUSE®401072024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-03-14An Empiricism with High Metaphysical Ambitions: On Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922339
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Appearing fifteen years after his Peirce’s Theory of Signs of 2007, T.L. Short’s new volume focuses on how Peirce’s philosophy relates to the sciences. The book does so in at least two senses: both in the sense that it investigates how Peirce’s philosophical thought developed out of his own scientific work and reflections, and in the sense that it charts how his thought took the understanding of the modern scientific project as one of its main aims and ambitions. It strove to be both a philosophy of science and a scientific philosophy. Short’s 2007 book on Peirce’s semiotics was not without controversy at the time, and despite important and much-discussed issues in that book, I think it is fair to say that it
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/343/image/coversmallAn Empiricism with High Metaphysical Ambitions: On Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science2024-03-14text/htmlen-USAn Empiricism with High Metaphysical Ambitions: On Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science2024-03-142024TWOProject MUSE®665142024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-03-14Validity and Induction: Some Comments on T.L. Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922340
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T.L. Short is undoubtedly one of the finest interpreters of Peirce’s thought working today. Whenever I read his essays or books, I do so with great profit. Charles Peirce and Modern Science is no exception. Over ten chapters, Short expands and deepens our understanding of Peirce’s rich philosophical and scientific works. These chapters are the fruits of many years of study, and they are fruits that will nourish the thought of any scholar with an interest in Peirce, pragmatism, American philosophy, or the philosophy of science.One central theme of Short’s new book is that we will do well to read Peirce as a philosophical experimentalist. As he notes in the preface, Peirce’s philosophical writings are rife with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/343/image/coversmallValidity and Induction: Some Comments on T.L. Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science2024-03-14text/htmlen-USValidity and Induction: Some Comments on T.L. Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science2024-03-142024TWOProject MUSE®393092024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-03-14On Short’s Anti-System Reading of Peirce
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922341
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In the preface of his 2022 book, Charles Peirce and Modern Science, T. L. Short says that its two main themes are, first, that Peirce “proposed that all of philosophy should become a branch of empirical inquiry: not a body of doctrine a priori” (x), and, second, that the “many contradictions and lacunae” in his work—which, for Short, explain “why philosophers ignore him altogether”—are a consequence of the fact that “Peirce wrote philosophy as a scientist, not as a philosopher in any of the usual senses” (ibid.).Its first main theme should be familiar to students of Peirce already. It was a main theme of my 2016 book, though my precise thesis was that Peirce shows how no area of inquiry, including philosophy and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/343/image/coversmallOn Short’s Anti-System Reading of Peirce2024-03-14text/htmlen-USOn Short’s Anti-System Reading of Peirce2024-03-142024TWOProject MUSE®635772024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-03-14Response to Critics
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I thank my critics for providing me this opportunity to clarify, explain, defend, and correct what I said in the book under discussion. I shall plead guilty on several counts as charged, or almost as charged, while other objections raise interesting questions, some of which we can begin to explore here.Before responding to particular critics and their criticisms it would be well to address two complaints that seem to be generally shared, one concerning my critique of the idea that Peirce aimed to construct a “system” and the other my neglect of many of Peirce’s contributions to logic.The dominant mode of Peirce scholarship is to seek coherence in the conclusions he drew, whereas I suggest that it would be more
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/343/image/coversmallResponse to Critics2024-03-14text/htmlen-USResponse to Critics2024-03-142024TWOProject MUSE®866212024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-03-14The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction by Scott R. Stroud (review)
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More scholarly attention needs to be paid to the mutual influences between Asian and American thought, especially with regards to the development, legacy, and future of pragmatism. Fortunately, there have been several notable attempts. Throughout his works, Richard Shusterman frequently incorporates the perspectives of various East Asian philosophies into his articulation of somaesthetics. Multiple scholars have explored John Dewey’s lectures in China and their political and educational impact, such as Jessica Ching-Sze Wang’s John Dewey in China or The Democracy of the Dead by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall. Still others have highlighted the influence of Indian thought on pragmatism’s forerunners, such as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/343/image/coversmallThe Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction by Scott R. Stroud (review)2024-03-14text/htmlen-USThe Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction by Scott R. Stroud (review)2024-03-142024TWOProject MUSE®225972024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-03-14The Works of George Santayana, volume IX, Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion ed. by Martin A. Coleman, David E. Spiech, and Faedra Lazar Weiss (review)
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It is not merely a re-edition of Santayana’s book that is at stake here. This ninth volume of The MIT Critical Edition of The Works of George Santayana is a next step in showing us his vast output with extensive range, depth, and, most importantly, significant stimulation for our generation of scholars and non-scholars. Just to illustrate the scope of Santayana’s work: volume V of the present MIT Critical Edition, published in the years 2001–2008, consists of eight thick books with Santayana’s correspondence throughout seventy years of intellectual activity (around 3000 letters to roughly 350 recipients, William James, Josiah Royce, Bertrand Russell, Sidney Hook, Horace Kallen, B.A.G. Fuller, Hugo Münsterberg
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/343/image/coversmallThe Works of George Santayana, volume IX, Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion ed. by Martin A. Coleman, David E. Spiech, and Faedra Lazar Weiss (review)2024-03-14text/htmlen-USThe Works of George Santayana, volume IX, Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion ed. by Martin A. Coleman, David E. Spiech, and Faedra Lazar Weiss (review)2024-03-142024TWOProject MUSE®112842024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-03-14