Living
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Principles of philosophy. Edited by
Hartshorne Charles and Weiss Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1931. Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. I
Elements of logic. Edited by Hartshorne
Charles and Weiss Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1932.
Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. II
Exact logic (published papers). Edited by
Hartshorne Charles and Weiss Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1933. Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. III
The simplest mathematics. Edited by
Hartshorne Charles and Weiss Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1933. Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. IV
Pragmatism and pragmaticism. Edited by
Hartshorne Charles and Weiss Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1934. Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. V
Scientific metaphysics. Edited by
Hartshorne Charles and Weiss Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1935. Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. VI
Science and philosophy. Edited by Burks
Willliam A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1958. Collected papers
of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. VII
Reviews, correspondence and bibliography.
Edited by Burks Willliam A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1958.
Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - vol. VIII
Writings of Charles S. Peirce. A
chronological edition - Vol. I 1857-1866. Edited by Fisch Max.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1982.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce. A
chronological edition - Vol. II 1867-1871. Edited by Moore Edward C.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1984.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce. A
chronological edition - Vol. III 1872-1878. Edited by Kloesel Christian.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1986.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce. A
chronological edition - Vol. IV 1879-1884. Edited by Kloesel Christian.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1986.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce. A
chronological edition - Vol. V 1884-1886. Edited by Kloesel Christian.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1993.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce. A
chronological edition - Vol. VI 1886-1890. Edited by Houser Nathan.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1993.
The essential Peirce. Selected philosophical
writings. Vol. I 1867-1893. Edited by Houser Nathan and Kloesel
Christian. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1992.
The essential Peirce. Selected philosophical
writings. Vol. II 1893-1913. Edited by Peirce Edition Project.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1992.
Chance, love, and logic. Philosophical
essays. Edited by Cohen Morris R. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company
1923. Edited with an introduction by Morris R. Cohen; with a
supplementary essay on The pragmatism of Peirce, by John Dewey
The philosophy of Peirce. Selected writings.
Edited by Buchler Justus. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company 1940.
Reprinted as: Philosophical writings of Peirce. Selected and edited with
an introduction by Justus Buchler - New York, Dover Publications, 1955
Selected writings. New York: Dover
Publications 1958. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Philip P.
Wiener (Originally published under title: Values in a universe of chance)
Charles S. Peirce: the essential writings.
Edited by Moore Edward C. New York: Harper & Row 1972.
Arithmetic - New elements of mathematics -
Vol. I. Edited by Eisele Carolyn. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press
1976.
Algebra and geometry - New elements of
mathematics - Vol. II. Edited by Eisele Carolyn. Atlantic Highlands:
Humanities Press 1976.
Mathematical miscellanea - New elements of
mathematics - Vol. III. Edited by Eisele Carolyn. Atlantic Highlands:
Humanities Press 1976.
Mathematical philosophy - New elements of
mathematics - Vol. IV. Edited by Eisele Carolyn. Atlantic Highlands:
Humanities Press 1976.
Contributions to The Nation: Part One:
1869-1893. Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine and Cook James Edward.
Lubbock: Texas Tech Press 1975.
Contributions to The Nation: Part Two:
1894-1900. Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine and Cook James Edward.
Lubbock: Texas Tech Press 1975.
Contributions to The Nation: Part Three:
1901-1908. Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine and Cook James Edward.
Lubbock: Texas Tech Press 1979.
Contributions to The Nation: Part Four:
Index. Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine and Cook James Edward. Lubbock:
Texas Tech Press 1987.
Essays in the philosophy of science.
Edited by Tomas Vincent. New York: Liberal Arts Press 1957.
Peirce on signs. Writings on semiotic.
Edited by Hoopes James. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
1991.
Semiotic and significs. The correspondence
between Charles S. Peirce and Lady Victoria Welby. Edited by Hardwick
Charles S. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1977.
Studies in logic. By members of the Johns
Hopkins University. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983.
First edition 1883. With an introduction by Max H. Fisch and a preface
by Achim Eschbach
Reasoning and the logic of things. The
Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898. Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1992. With an introduction by Kenneth
Laine Ketner and Hilary Putnam
Pragmatism as a principle and method of right
thinking. The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism. Edited by Turrisi
Patricia Ann. New York: State University of New York Press 1997. Edited
and introduced with a commentary
EXCERPTS FROM HIS PUBLICATIONS (in preparation)
STUDIES ABOUT HIS WORK
Perspective on Peirce: critical essays on Charles Sanders Peirce.
Edited by Bernstein Richard J. New Haven: Yale University Press 1980.
Reprinted: Westport, Greenwood Press, 1980
Proceedings of the C. S. Peirce Bicentennial International Congress.
Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine et al. Lubbock: Texas Tech University 1981.
A comprehensive bibliography of the published works of Charles
Sanders Peirce with a bibliography of secondary studies. Bowling Green:
Philosophy Documentation Center 1986.
Second revised edition (First edition 1977).
Edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner with the assistance of Arthur Franklin
Stewart and Claude V. Bridges
Peirce and contemporary thought: philosophical inquiries. Edited
by Ketner Kenneth Laine. New York: Fordham University Press 1995.
Peirce's Doctrine of Signs. Theory, applications, and connections.
Edited by Colapietro Vincent M. and Olshewsky Thomas M. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter 1996.
The Cambridge companion to Peirce. Edited by Mysak Cheryl.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004.
The relevance of Charles Peirce. Edited by Freeman Eugene. La
Salle: The Hegeler Institute 2005.
Almeder Robert. The philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. A critical
introduction. Oxford : Blackwell 1980.
Apel Karl-Otto. Charles S. Peirce. From Pragmatism to Pragmaticism.
New Jersey: Humanities Press 1981.
Paperback edition 1995 with a new Introduction by the Author. Translated by
John Michael Krois.
Original German edition: Der Denkweg von Charles S. Peirce: Eine
Einführung in frn amerikanischen Pragmatismus - Frankfurt am Main,
Surkhamp Verlag, 1967.
Contents: Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Author's Preface to the
English Edition VII; Translator's Preface XIII; Introduction by Richard .
Bernstein XIX;
Part I. The philosophical background of the rise of Pragmatism in the
thought of Charles Sanders Peirce.
1. Peirce and the contemporary function of Pragmatism; 2. The problem of an
introduction to Peirce's work as a whole: the four periods of the
development of his thought 14; 3. The first period: Peirce and the
Tradition, or, from the critique of knowledge to the critique of meaning 19;
4. The second period: The genesis of meaning-critical Pragmatism (1871-78);
Part II. Peirce's development from Pragmatism to Pragmaticism.
6. The later Peirce: the last two periods in the development of his thought
80; 6. Peirce's late conception of his system 84; 7. The third period: From
Pragmatism to the metaphysics of Evolution (ca. 1885-98) 134; 8. The fourth
period: from Pragmatism to Pragmaticism (ca. 1898-1914) 158; 9. Conclusion:
Peirce and the future of the philosophy of science 191;
Notes 197; Bibliography 249; Index 251-253.
"We can derive a division of the development of Peirce's philosophy into
four periods from the above characterization of the development of his
thought. These four periods are also distinctly discernible in the history
of his publications: a series of essays in a particular journal is found in
the middle of each. In addition, the four periods correspond to the decisive
turns of events in Peirce's life.
The first period (from 1855 to 1871) embraces Peirce's early years, from the
beginning of his study of Kant, undertaken when he was sixteen years old, to
the temporary conclusion of his critical study of the philosophical
tradition. Besides a series of five essays on formal logic and the doctrine
of the categories in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 1867, publications falling into this period include three
essays on the theory of cognition in the Journal of Speculative
Philosophy in 1868-69 and the Berkeley review in the North American
Review in 1871, where the pragmatic maxim for making meanings
clear is anticipated. I have chosen to unite this first period under the
heading "From the Critique of Knowledge to the Critique of Meaning."
The second period (from 1871 to 1883) encompasses the time of Peirce's
public success, from the founding of the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge to
the tragic turn of his life, which is signified by his dismissal from his
teaching post at Johns Hopkins University." Numerous geodetic and astronomic
investigations, expeditions, and participation in congresses in the service
of the United States Coast Survey, and the Photometric Researches at the
Harvard Observatory, fall into this period, as well as the series of six
"Illustrations of the Logic of Science" in Popular Science Monthly in
1877-78. The first two articles in this series, "The Fixation of Belief" and
"How to Make Our Ideas Clear," are considered the birth certificates of
"Pragmatism." The fruits of Peirce's teaching at Johns Hopkins from '1879 to
1883 appeared in 1883 in the volume Studies in Logic, which contains works
by Peirce and his students of mathematical logic." This period may be termed
the classic epoch of the development of Pragmatism and "American
philosophy." The third period (from 1883 to 1893 or 1902) spans the time in
which Peirce -- particularly after moving to Milford, Pennsylvania -- worked
alone on studies in logic and metaphysics and, circa 1901-2, achieved the
final architectonic of his philosophical system. The central philosophical
publication of this period is the series of six essays on metaphysics in
The Monist between 1891 and 1893, in which the aspects of
evolutionary cosmology, "Tychism," "Synechism," and "Agapism," are
presented. During this period Peirce also made repeated attempts to put a
large philosophical work up for subscription, all of which failed (the last
attempt was his application to the Carnegie Foundation, which was
unsuccessful because his work dealt with "logic" and not with "natural
science")." As a result, Peirce was forced after his discharge from the
Coast Survey in 1891 to earn his income through miscellaneous work
for journals and dictionaries.
The fourth period (from 1898 or 1902 to 1914) embraces the time in which
Pragmatism was discussed internationally, following William James's
"California Address," which gave Peirce a last chance to win an audience for
his philosophy. This period ends in 1914 with the death of the philosopher,
who had been supported by a fund from his friends since 1906 and who had
suffered from cancer since 1909. At the center of this period stand, first,
the difficult but significant ("architectonic") Harvard lectures of 1903 on
Pragmatism, in which Peirce made the first attempt to connect all aspects of
his "system" of 1901-2 with the concept of Pragmatism, and second, the
series of three essays on Pragmatism in The Monist in 1905-6, as well
as numerous additions to this series that remained unpublished in his
lifetime. Here Peirce attained the completion of his conception of
Pragmatism." pp. 17-18 (Notes omitted).
Boler John. Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism. A study of
Peirce's relations to John Duns Scotus. Seattle: University of
Washington Press 1963.
Brent Joseph. Charles Sanders Peirce. A life. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press 1993.
Buchler Justus. Charles Peirce's empiricism. New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Co. 1939.
Reprinted: New York, Octagon Books, Inc. 1966
Calvet de Magalhaes Theresa. Signe ou symbole: introduction à la
théorie sémiotique de C. S. Peirce. Louvain-la-Neuve: Cabay 1981.
Chauviré Christiane. Peirce et la signification: introduction à la
logique du vague. Paris: Presses Univesitaires de France 1995.
Colapietro Vincent. Peirce's approach to the Self. A semiotic
perspective on human subjectivity. Albany: State University of New York
Press 1989.
Debrock Guy. Peirce's concept of truth within the context of his
conception of logic. In Studies on the history of logic. Proceedings of
the Third Symposium on the history of logic. Edited by Angelelli Ignacio
and Cerezo Maria. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1996. pp. 241-256
Deledalle Gérard. Théorie et pratique du signe: introduction á la
sémiotique de Charles S. Peirce. Paris: Payot 1979.
Deledalle Gérard. Charles Sanders Peirce. An intellectual biography.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1990.
Translation of: Gérard Deledalle - Charles S. Peirce, phénoménologue et
sémioticien - Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987
Deledalle Gérard, "Peirce's "Sign": its concept and its use,"
Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society 28: 289-301 (1992).
Deledalle Gérard. Charles S. Peirce's philosophy of Signs. Essays in
comparative semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2000.
Eisele Carolyn. Studies in the scientific and mathematical philosophy
of Charles S. Peirce. Essays by Carolyn Eisele. The Hague : Mouton & Co.
1979.
Eisele Carolyn. Historical perspectives on Peirce's logic of science:
a history of science. Berlin: Mouton Publishers 1985.
Two volumes
Esposito Joseph L. Evolutionary metaphysics. The development of
Peirce's theory of Categories. Athens : Ohio University Press 1980.
Fabbrichesi Leo Rossella. Il concetto di relazione in Peirce: dalla
genesi categoriale alla notazione logico-diagrammatica. Milano: Jaca
Book 1992.
Fabbrichesi Leo Rossella. Introduzione a Peirce. Bari: Laterza
1993.
Feibleman James K. An introduction to Peirce's philosophy.
Interpreted as a system. London: George Allen & Unwin 1969.
Fisch Max Harold. Peirce's general theory of Signs. In Sight, sound
and sense. Edited by Sebeok Thomas A. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press 1978. pp. 31-70
Reprinted in: Max H. Fisch - Peirce, Semeiotic, and Pragmatism: essays
- Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1986 pp. 321-355
Fisch Max Harold, Ketner Kenneth Laine, and Kloesel Christian J.W., "The
new tools of Peirce scholarship, with particular reference to semiotic,"
Peirce Studies 1: 1-19 (1979).
Fisch Max Harold. Peirce, Semeiotic, and Pragmatism. Essays by Max H.
Fisch. Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine and Kloesel Christian J.W.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1986.
Fisette Jean. Introduction à la sémiotique de C. S. Peirce.
Montreal: XYZ 1990.
Fitzgerald John J. Peirce's theory of signs as foundation for
pragmatism. The Hague: Mouton & Co. 1966.
Greenlee Douglas. Peirce's concept of Sign. The Hague : Mouton
1973.
Hausman Carl R., "Peirce's evolutionary Realism," Transactions of the
Charles S.Peirce Society 27: 475-500 (1991).
Hausman Carl R. Charles S. Peirce's evolutionary philosophy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993.
Hilpinen Risto, "On Peirce's philosophical logic: propositions and their
objects," Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society 28: 467-488
(2005).
Abstract: "According to C. S. Peirce, every proposition consists of two
signs, 1) a subject, an indexical sign which "indicates" some object or
objects (the objects of the proposition), and 2) a predicate, an iconic sign
whose function is to represent the object (or objects) indicated by the
subject. This paper analyzes the ways in which the subject of a proposition
indicates its object or objects in simple (atomic) propositions, their
truth-functional compounds, quantified propositions, and modal propositions,
and discusses Peirce's view of the objects of fictional discourse."
Hookway Christopher. Peirce. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1985.
Contents: Preface IX; Note on references XI; Introduction 1; Part One.
Peirce's project: the pursuit of truth; I. Logic, mind and reality: early
thoughts 13; II. Truth and the aims of inquiry 41; III. Categories 80; IV.
Assertion and interpretation: the theory of signs 118; Conclusion to Part
One 145; Part Two. Knowledge and reality 149; V. Perceptions and the outward
clash 151; VI: Mathematical reasoning and the a priori 181; VII. The
growth of knowledge: induction and abduction 208; VIII. Pragmatism 234; IX.
Evolutionary cosmology and objective idealism 262; Motes 289; References
292; Index 297-301.
Hookway Christopher. Truth, rationality, and pragmatism: themes from
Peirce. Oxford: Clarendon Press 2000.
Houser Nathan, "On Peirce's theory of propositions: a response to
Hilpinen," Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society 28: 489-504
(1992).
Ketner Kenneth Laine. Elements of logic: an introduction to Peirce's
existential graphs. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press 1990.
Kevelson Roberta. Peirce, science, signs. New York: Peter Lang
1996.
Kruse Felicia, "Genuineness and degeneracy in Peirce's categories,"
Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society 27: 267-298 (1991).
Liska James Jakób. A general introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles
Sanders Peirce. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1996.
Contents: Preface IX-XI; 1. The discipline of Semeiotic 1; 2. Semeiotic
grammar 18; 3. Critical logic 53; 4. Universal rhetoric 78; Notes 109;
References 140; Index 147-151.
Martin Richard Milton. Peirce's logic of relations and other studies.
Dordrecht: Foris Publications 1980.
Merrell Floyd. Peirce, signs, and meaning. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press 1997.
Meyers Robert G., "Peirce's new way of Signs," Transactions of the
Charles S.Peirce Society 28: 505-521 (1992).
Abstract: "The paper argues that Peirce's theory of signs was an attempt to
replace the medieval theory of language as perfected by Locke. Peirce
rejects the distinction between simple and complex ideas, and holds that
every (mental or linguistic) sign refers to its object by virtue of another
sign it implies, viz its interpretant. The paper explains how the resulting
theory implies a rejection of analyticity and the doctrine of the
determinacy of thought. It is suggested that the theory assumes the
intentionality of signs and, contrary to Peirce's intentions, does not
explain intentionality."
Misak Cheryl J. Truth and the end of inquiry: a Peircean account of
truth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1991.
Paperback expanded edition 2004
Murphey Murray G. The development of Peirce's philosophy.
Harvard: Harvard University Press 1961.
Reprinted by Hackett, 1993 with a new preface and a new appendix with
footnotes keyed to the manuscript classifications by Max Fisch.
Oehler Klaus. Peirce contra Aristotle. Two forms of the theory of
categories. In Proceedings of the C. S. Peirce Bicentennial international
Congress. Edited by Ketner Kenneth Laine. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press
1976. pp. 335-342
Oehler Klaus. Charles Sanders Peirce. München: Beck 1993.
Pape Helmut. Erfahrung und Wirklichkeit als Zeichenprozess: Charles
S. Peirces Entwurf einer Spekulativen Grammatik des Seins. Frankfurt am
Main: Suhrkamp 1989.
Pape Helmut, "Not every object of a sign has Being," Transactions of
the Charles S.Peirce Society 27: 141-177 (1991).
Abstract: "Peirce has a theory of proper names which likens proper names to
common nouns and assigns to them the function of picking out the internal
objects of our thought. The univocity of reference is not explained by the
semantical role of organising thought contents but is achieved by their
"use". Peirce's view of proper names is compared with H. N. Castaneda's
restricted variable/retrieval theory of proper names. A Sameness Principle
for objects of thought and signs is introduced.
The Meinongian thesis that there are objects which have neither existence
nor being is a mere consequence of the functional meaning of all expressions
which are purely referential."
Parker Kelly, "Peirce's semeiotic and ontology," Transactions of the
Charles S.Peirce Society 30: 51-75 (1994).
Parker Kelly. The continuity of Peirce's thought. Nashville:
Vanderbilt University Press 1998.
Perreiah Alan Richard, "Peirce's semeiotic and Scholastic logic,"
Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society 25: 41-49 (1989).
"This paper examines sources for Peirce's ideas on medieval logic. Several
stages in the development of semeiotic are reviewed and related to the
medieval trivium. Semeiotic is understood as the theory of signs including
formal grammar (study of the significations of signs), logic (study of the
interpretants of signs). Medieval concepts of signification
("significatio"), supposition ("suppositio"), and inference ("consequentia")
are introduced and related to Peirce's work."
Pharies David. Charles S. Peirce and the linguistic sign.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1985.
Proni Giampaolo. Introduzione a Peirce. Milano: Bompiani 1990.
Roberts Don David. The existential graphs of Charles S. Peirce.
The Hague: Mouton 1973.
Robin Richard. Annotated catalogue of the papers of Charles Sanders
Peirce. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 1967.
Rosensohn William L. The Phenomenology of Charles S. Peirce. From the
doctrine of Categories to Phaneroscopy. Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner 1974.
Contents: Part. I. The elements of Phenomenology. Foreword VII; I. The
beginnings of Phenomenology - Introductory 1; II. The birth of Phenomenology
(1867-1868) 19; III. The same subject concluded 53; Part II. IV:
Phenomenology and Nature (1867-1904) 59; V. Phaneroscopy: the description of
the phaneron 77; Appendix 103; Bibliography 105, Index 107-109.
From the Foreword: "To trace the development of Peirce's phenomenology from
a doctrine of Categories to the ground on which philosophy and science rest
is the purpose of this book. Although parallels with Husserl's thought are
inevitable, it has seemed proper to this writer to emphasize the growth of
Peirce's own ideas and the scientific-philosophical background out of which
they emerged. Thus Peirce's most original contributions, viz., a set of
universal categories appearing in thought, nature and experience, the method
of their discovery, and Phaneroscopy, the science that describes the
phaneron, or the collective total of all that is in any way or in any
sense present to the mind, are shown in the context of a single, evolving
body of thought - a comprehensive philosophy shaped by Peirce's lifelong
interest in logic, the sciences, ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics."
Savan David. An introduction to C. S. Peirce full system of
Semeiotic. Toronto: Toronto Semiotic Circle 1988.
Shin Sun-Joo. The iconic logic of Peirce's graphs. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press 2002.
Short Thomas L. Peirce's theory of signs. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press 2007.
Skagestad Peter. The road of inquiry. Charles Peirce's Pragmatic
Realism. New York: Columbia University Press 1981.
Thibaud Pierre. La logique de Charles Sanders Peirce: de l'algèbre
aux graphes. Aix-en-Provence: Éditions de l'Université de Provence 1975.
Thibaud Pierre, "La thèse peircienne de l'identité de la pensée et du
signe," Archives de Philosophie 55: 437-460 (1992).
Abstract: "Resisting any sort of hierarchy between thought and expression,
which usually leads to supremacy of thought, sometimes of expression, as
will be shown, Peirce proposes a theory that strongly asserts absolute
identity of thought and signs and seems to be the very clue towards the
determination of the meaning of his own view of pragmatism."
Thibaud Pierre. Peirce's concept of proposition. In Studies on the
history of logic. Proceedings of the Third Symposium on the history of
logic. Edited by Angelelli Ignacio and Cerezo Maria. Berlin: Walter de
Gruyter 1996. pp. 257-280
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