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Direct Inspection and Phaneroscopic Analysis
- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2016
- pp. 1-20
- 10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.52.1.01
- Article
- Additional Information
Peirce limits the sorts of analyses involved in phaneroscopy (his preferred name for phenomenology) to logical analysis and to analysis by direct inspection. Although many excellent works have addressed the role of logical analysis in phaneroscopy, very little has been written on Peirce’s conception of analysis by direct inspection. Drawing on “The Basis of Pragmatism [in Phaneroscopy]” and a little noted passage in Peirce’s