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Peirce’s Scientific Metaphysics is the first book devoted to understanding Charles Sanders Peirce’s (1839–1914) metaphysics from the perspective of the scientific questions that motivated his thinking. Deftly situating Peirce’s often original and pathbreaking ideas within their appropriate historical and scientific contexts, Reynolds traces his reliance upon the law of large numbers, which illustrated for Peirce the emergence of a stable order and regularity from a multitude of chance events, throughout his writings on late nineteenth-century physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and cosmology. Along the way, Peirce’s vision of an indeterministic and evolutionary cosmology is contrasted with the thought of other important late nineteenth-century scientists and philosophers, such as James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Ernst Haeckel. While offering a detailed account of the scientific ideas and theories essential for understanding Peirce’s metaphysical system (e.g., the irreversibility of time and the reversibility of physical laws, the statistical law of large numbers), this book is written in a manne

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Author

Andrew Reynolds, 1966-

Publisher

Vanderbilt University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585407739

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Physics

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24