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REPRESENTATIVE PRACTICES BLANK PAGE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY SERIES Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors BLANK PAGE REPRESENTATIVE PRACTICES Peirce, Pragmatism, and Feminist Epistemology KORY SPENCER SORRELL FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 2004 Copyright © 2004 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. American Philosophy Series No. 15 ISSN 1073-2764 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sorrell, Kory Spencer. Representative practices : Peirce, pragmatism, and feminist epistemology I Kory Sorrell.-1st ed. p. cm. -- (American philosophy series; no.15) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-2354-X I. Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914-Contributions in philosophy of representation. 2. Representation (Philosophy) 3. Feminist theory. I. Title. II. Series. B945.P 44S67 2004 121' .68-dc22 2004013166 Printed in the United States of America 08 07 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Contents Abbreviations ix Foreword xi Introduction 1 ONE Peirce's Categories: A First Glimpse at Representation 9 Phenomenology and the Larger Generalities 11 Categories of the Real 20 Peirce in Historical Context 29 TWO The Substance of Peirce's Categories: The World Phenomenologically Conceived 3 3 Categoreal Reconstruction 3 4 The Practical Uses of Substance 3 8 Constructive Criticism 43 THREE Mapping the Province: From the Mirror of Nature to ConstrnctivP RPnrP~PntMinn 76 TheT1 79 Peirce Fashic 99 Some 102 viii CONTENTS FOUR Communities of Inquiry: Authority, Constraint, and Inclusivity 117 Striated Communities and Situated Knowledge 123 Accounting for Authority 138 A Paradigmatic Example of Inclusion 15 o FIVE Mediation and Normative Science: Toward an Ethic of Representation 15 7 Representations of (and for) a Way of Life 15 9 Communal Criticism: A Pragmatic Criterion 17 4 Notes 183 Bibliography 189 Index 199 Abbreviations CP The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (1931) EP1 The Essential Peirce, Vol. I (1992) EP2 The Essential Peirce, Vol. 2 (1998) PS Pierce on Signs (1991) PW Philosophical Writings of Peirce (1955) SW Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings (1958) W1 Writings of Charles S. Peirce (1984) { ix }