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The thought of C. S. Peirce /cThomas A. Goudge by Goudge, Thomas A., 1910- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

When the 8-volume edition of 'The collected Papers' of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) began to appear in the 1930's, he was immediately recognized as a thinker of the first magnitude who anticipated themes that are in the foreground of current philosophcial discussion - the foundations of logic and mathematics, semantics, induction and probability, phenomenology, chance and determinism in nature, evolutionary metaphysics and other subjects. But Peirce's papers are often fragmentary, repetitious and rambling, and although the influence of his ideas has been enormous, a coherent analysis of his entire thought has been the despair of many a scholar. This study by a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto is indispensable to every student of Peirce because it presents and develops a hypothesis that, for the first time, manages to account for all of Peirce's divergent and often conflicting ideas. Written with ease and exceptional clarity, Professor Goudge's interpretation covers in detail every aspect of Peirce's philosophy - scientific inquiry in mathematics, phenomenology, logic (explicative inference, general semiotic and ampliative inference) and critical metaphysics;

Author

Goudge, Thomas A., 1910-

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486222165

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities