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Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives

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Vincent G. Potter
2019
Published by: Fordham University Press
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This collection focuses primarily on Peirce’s realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half Title Page

pp. i-ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv

Contents

pp. v

Abbreviations

pp. vii

Foreword

pp. ix-xxv

To the Reader

pp. xxvii-xxviii

1. Charles Sanders Peirce: An Overview

pp. 1-16

2. Peirce's British Connection

pp. 17-36

3. Peirce on Normative Science

pp. 37-64

4. Action Through Thought: The Ethics of Inquiry

pp. 65-77

5. Normative Science and the Pragmatic Maxim

pp. 78-90

6. Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim: Realist or Nominalist?

pp. 91-102

7. Peirce on "Substance" and "Foundations"

pp. 103-116

8. Peirce on Continuity

pp. 117-123

9. Objective Chance: Lonergan and Peirce on Scientific Generalization

pp. 124-139

10. C. S. Peirce and Religious Experience

pp. 140-154

11. "Vaguely Like a Man": The Theism of Charles S. Peirce

pp. 155-168

12. C. S. Peirce's Argument for God's Reality: A Pragmatist's View

pp. 169-194

Appendix: Response to Hartshorne's "Peirce and Religion"

pp. 195-204

Bibliography

pp. 205-209

About the Author

pp. 211-212
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