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the cambridge companion to PEIRCE Eachvolumeinthisseriesofcompanionstomajorphiloso- phers contains specially commissioned essays by an inter- national team of scholars, together with a substantial bibli- ography,andwillserveasareferenceworkforstudentsand nonspecialists.Oneaimoftheseriesistodispeltheintimi- dationsuchreadersoftenfeelwhenfacedwiththeworkofa difficultandchallengingthinker. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is generally consid- eredthemostsignificantAmericanphilosopher.Hewasthe founder of pragmatism – the view, popularized by William JamesandJohnDewey,thatourphilosophicaltheoriesmust belinkedtoexperienceandpractice.Theessaysinthisvol- ume reveal how Peirce worked through this idea to make importantcontributionstomostbranchesofphilosphy.The topics covered include Peirce’s influence; the famous prag- maticmaximandtheviewoftruthandrealityarisingfrom it; the question as to whether mathematical, moral, and re- ligious hypotheses might aspire to truth; his theories of in- quiryandperception;andhiscontributiontosemiotics,sta- tisticalinference,anddeductivelogic. Newreaderswillfindthisthemostconvenientandacces- sibleguidetoPeircecurrentlyavailable.Advancedstudents andspecialistswillfindaconspectusofrecentdevelopments intheinterpretationofPeirce. CherylMisakisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityof Toronto. othervolumesintheseriesofcambridgecompanions: ABELARD Editedbyjeffreye.browerandkevinguilfoy ADORNO Editedbythomashuhn AQUINAS Editedbynormankretzmannandeleonore stump HANNAHARENDT Editedbydanavilla ARISTOTLE Editedbyjonathanbarnes AUGUSTINE Editedbyeleonorestumpandnorman kretzmann BACON Editedbymarkkupeltonen SIMONEDEBEAUVOIR Editedbyclaudiacard DARWIN Editedbyjonathanhodgeandgregoryradick DESCARTES Editedbyjohncottingham DUNSSCOTUS Editedbythomaswilliams EARLYGREEKPHILOSOPHY Editedbya.a.long FEMINISMINPHILOSOPHY Editedbymirandafrickerand jenniferhornsby FOUCAULT Editedbygarygutting FREUD Editedbyjeromeneu GADAMER Editedbyrobertj.dostal GALILEO Editedbypetermachamer GERMANIDEALISM Editedbykarlameriks GREEKANDROMANPHILOSOPHY Editedbydavidsedley HABERMAS Editedbystephenk.white HEGEL Editedbyfrederickbeiser HEIDEGGER Editedbycharlesguignon HOBBES Editedbytomsorell HUME Editedbydavidfatenorton HUSSERL Editedbybarrysmithanddavidwoodruffsmith WILLIAMJAMES Editedbyruthannaputnam KANT Editedbypaulguyer KIERKEGAARD Editedbyalastairhannayandgordon marino LEIBNIZ Editedbynicholasjolley LEVINAS Editedbysimoncritchleyandrobertbernasconi LOCKE Editedbyverechappell MALEBRANCHE Editedbystevennadler MARX Editedbyterrellcarver MEDIEVALPHILOSOPHY Editedbya.s.mcgrade MEDIEVALJEWISHPHILOSOPHY Editedbydanielh.frank andoliverleaman MILL Editedbyjohnskorupski NEWTON Editedbyi.bernardcohenandgeorgee.smith NIETZSCHE Editedbyberndmagnusandkathleenhiggins OCKHAM Editedbypaulvincentspade PASCAL Editedbynicholashammond PLATO Editedbyrichardkraut PLOTINUS Editedbylloydp.gerson QUINE Editedbyrogerf.gibson RAWLS Editedbysamuelfreeman THOMASREID Editedbyterencecuneoandrene´ vanwoudenberg ROUSSEAU Editedbypatrickriley BERTRANDRUSSELL Editedbynicholasgriffin SARTRE Editedbychristinahowells SCHOPENHAUER Editedbychristopherjanaway THESCOTTISHENLIGHTENMENT Editedbyalexander broadie SPINOZA Editedbydongarrett THESTOICS Editedbybradinwood WITTGENSTEIN Editedbyhansslugaanddavidstern The Cambridge Companion to PEIRCE Edited by Cheryl Misak UniversityofToronto publishedbythepresssyndicateoftheuniversityof cambridge ThePittBuilding,TrumpingtonStreet,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom cambridgeuniversitypress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UK 40West20thStreet,NewYork,ny10011-4211,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia RuizdeAlarco´n13,28014Madrid,Spain DockHouse,TheWaterfront,CapeTown8001,SouthAfrica http://www.cambridge.org (cid:1)c CambridgeUniversityPress2004 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtothe provisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionof anypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridge UniversityPress. Firstpublished2004 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica TypefaceTrumpMedieval10/13pt. SystemLATEX2ε [tb] AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData TheCambridgecompaniontoPeirce/editedbyCherylMisak p. cm.–(Cambridgecompanionstophilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn0-521-57006-9–isbn0-521-57910-4(pbk) 1.Peirce,CharlesS.(CharlesSanders),1839–1914. I.Misak,C.J. (CherylJ.) II.Series. b945.p44c36 2004 191–dc22 2003061744 isbn0521570069hardback isbn0521579104paperback contents List of Contributors pageix 1 Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) 1 cheryl misak 2 Peirce’s Place in the Pragmatist Tradition 27 sami pihlstro¨m 3 Peirce and Medieval Thought 58 john boler 4 Reflections on Inquiry and Truth Arising from Peirce’s Method for the Fixation of Belief 87 david wiggins 5 Truth, Reality, and Convergence 127 christopher hookway 6 C. S. Peirce on Vital Matters 150 cheryl misak 7 Peirce’s Common Sense Marriage of Religion and Science 175 douglas anderson 8 Peirce’s Pragmatic Account of Perception: Issues and Implications 193 sandra rosenthal 9 The Development of Peirce’s Theory of Signs 214 t. l. short vii viii Contents 10 Peirce’s Semeiotic Model of the Mind 241 peter skagested 11 Beware of Syllogism: Statistical Reasoning and Conjecturing According to Peirce 257 isaac levi 12 Peirce’s Deductive Logic: Its Development, Influence, and Philosophical Significance 287 randall dipert Note on References 325 Bibliography 327 Index 343 contributors DOUGLASANDERSONisanAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyat Penn State University. He is the author of Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce and coeditor of The Contemporary VitalityofPragmatism. JOHNBOLERisProfessorEmeritusofPhilosophyattheUniversity of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism, as well as numerous articles on Peirce and on medievalphilosophy. RANDALLDIPERTisC.S.PeirceProfessorofAmericanPhilosophy atSUNYBuffalo.Hehaswrittenextensivelyonthehistoryandphi- losophyoflogic,especiallyonPeirceandthenineteenthcentury.In aesthetics, he has published articles on music theory, performance practice, and authenticity and is the author Artifacts, Art Works, andAgency(TempleUniversityPress:1993). CHRISTOPHERHOOKWAYisProfessorofPhilosophyatSheffield University. His publications include Peirce (Routledge 1985) and Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism: Themes from Peirce (Oxford UniversityPress2000). ISAACLEVIiscurrentlyJohnDeweyProfessoratColumbiaUniver- sity.HeisauthorofCovenantofReason,FortheSakeoftheArgu- ment,FixationofBeliefandItsUndoing,HardChoices,Enterprise of Knowledge, Decisions and Revisions, and Gambling with Truth and is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy. He is a past president oftheCharlesPeirceSociety. ix x Contributors CHERYL MISAK is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth (the second edition of which is coming outfromOxfordUniversityPressin 2004)Verificationism:ItsHis- tory and Prospects (Routledge 1995), and Truth, Politics, Morality: PragmatismandDeliberation(Routledge2000). SAMIPIHLSTRO¨MreceivedhisPh.D.inphilosophyfromtheUni- versity of Helsinki in 1996. He is Docent and University Lecturer of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. His publi- cations include three books in English: Structuring the World: The IssueofRealismandtheNatureofOntologicalProblemsinClassi- calandContemporaryPragmatism(dissertation,1996);Pragmatism and Philosophical Anthropology: Understanding Our Human Life in a Human World (Peter Lang, New York, 1998); and Naturaliz- ing the Transcendental: A Pragmatic View (Prometheus/Humanity Books,Amherst,NY,2003). SANDRAB.ROSENTHAL,ProvostDistinguishedProfessorofPhi- losophyatLoyolaUniversityofNewOrleans,haspublished11books andapproximately200articlesonpragmatismanditsrelationtovar- iousissuesandmovements.Sheisontheeditorialboardsofseveral journals and book series and has served as president of various pro- fessional organizations, including the Charles S. Peirce Society, the SocietyfortheAdvancementofAmericanPhilosophy,andtheMeta- physicalSocietyofAmerica. T.L.SHORTisChairmanoftheBoardofAdvisorstothePeirceEdi- tionProjectandauthorofmanyarticlesonPeirce. PETERSKAGESTADhastaughtphilosophyatWilliamsCollegeand atTrinityCollege,HartfordandcurrentlyteachesattheUniversity of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of The Road of Inquiry: CharlesPeirce’sPragmaticRealism(1981),MakingSenseofHistory: ThePhilosophiesofPopperandCollingwood(1975),andnumerous articles on philosophy, communication, and technology. He is an AssociateEditorofTheJournalofSocialandEvolutionarySystems.
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