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Название: Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 8

Автор: Charles S. Peirce

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Философия

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СКАЧАТЬ “On the Logic of Research into Ancient History” to National Academy of Sciences, 12–14 Nov. 1901–02 Completed the first four chapters of “Minute Logic” 1902 Applied to Carnegie Institution for grant to fund “Proposed Memoirs on Minute Logic” (rejected) 1903 Delivered Harvard lectures on “Pragmatism,” 26 Mar.–17 May Delivered Lowell lectures on “Some Topics of Logic,” 23 Nov.–17 Dec. Began correspondence with Victoria Lady Welby 1905–06 Published three Monist papers on pragmatism (series incomplete) 1906 Presented paper on existential graphs to National Academy of Sciences, Apr. Presented paper on phaneroscopy to National Academy of Sciences, Nov. 1907 Delivered three Harvard Philosophy Club lectures on “Logical Methodeutic,” 8–13 Apr. Wrote lengthy “letter to the editor” on pragmatism; rejected by both the Nation and Atlantic Monthly. 1908 Published “A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God,” Hibbert Journal, Oct. 1908–09 Published Monist series on “Amazing Mazes” 1909 Originated a matrix method for three-valued logic; recorded in his Logic Notebook (R 339), 23 Feb. 1911 Wrote “A Sketch of Logical Critics” for volume to honor Lady Welby (not completed) Last public presentation: “The Reasons of Reasoning, or Grounds of Inferring” at meeting of National Academy of Sciences, 21–22 Nov. 1914 Died of cancer at Arisbe, 19 Apr.

      Bibliographical Abbreviations in Editorial Matter

      CD [page #] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 10 vols., ed. William D. Whitney (New York: The Century Company, 1889–). The pagination is that of Peirce’s personal interleaved copy, which was the dictionary’s first printing. Unless specified otherwise all quotations are considered Peirce’s and were marked by him in his personal copy.

      CLL [page #] Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays, by the Late Charles S. Peirce, ed. Morris R. Cohen (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1923).

      CN [volume #:page #] Contributions to The Nation, 4 parts, ed. Kenneth L. Ketner and James E. Cook (Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1975–88). A searchable CD-ROM edition is published by InteLex Corporation (1999) as part of Charles Sanders Peirce: Published Philosophy (I).

      CP [volume #.para #] Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, volumes 1– 6, ed. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss; volumes 7–8 ed. Arthur Burks (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931–35, 1958).

      EP [volume #:page #] The Essential Peirce, volume 1 ed. Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel; volume 2 ed. Peirce Edition Project (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992, 1998).

      Haskell [volume #:page #] The Nation: Indexes of Titles and Contributors (volumes 1–105: 1865–1917), 2 vols., comp. Daniel C. Haskell (New York: New York Public Library, 1951, 1953). Volume 1, Index of Titles, is arranged chronologically, by volume and page number, and includes attribution. Signed publications are not included in this volume. Volume 2, Index of Contributors, is arranged alphabetically by author, and includes both signed and unsigned publications. In volume 2, Peirce’s contributions are listed on pages 392 to 395. Neither volume includes unattributed publications.

      HPPLS [volume #:page #] Historical Perspectives on Peirce’s Logic of Science, 2 vols., ed. Carolyn Eisele (New York: Mouton, 1985).

      ISP # A combined number consisting of the Robin catalogue number and a sequential sheet number. The numbers were Bates-stamped in 1974 on each sheet of an electroprint copy made from The Charles S. Peirce Papers (Cambridge: Harvard University Library, 1966, microfilm, 33 reels including supplement) and kept at the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. The ISP numbers give each page a unique identifier and with some exceptions the numbering follows closely the order of the pages on the microfilm. Harvard documents that were not microfilmed, such as those in R 1600 and RL 100, do not have ISP numbers, neither do documents held elsewhere.

      NARG [accession #] National Archives Record Group.

      NEM [volume #:page #] New Elements of Mathematics, 4 vols. in 5, ed. Carolyn Eisele (The Hague: Mouton, 1976).

      O [catalog #] A publication by someone other than Peirce listed in A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles Sanders Peirce, 2nd edition rev., ed. Kenneth L. Ketner (Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1986).

      P [catalog #] A Peirce publication listed in A Comprehensive Bibliography.

      PWP [page #] Philosophical Writings of Peirce, ed. Justus Buchler (New York: Dover, 1955), previously published as The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1940).

      R [ISP #] A Harvard manuscript listed in Richard Robin’s Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1967). Numbers preceded by RL refer to letters that are listed in the correspondence section of Robin’s catalogue. Numbers preceded by RS are listed in Robin’s “The Peirce Papers: A Supplementary Catalogue” (Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 7 [1971]: 37–57).

      RLT [page #] Reasoning and the Logic of Things, ed. K. L. Ketner (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).

      VUC [page #] Values in a Universe of Chance, ed. Philip P. Wiener (Garden City: Doubleday, 1958). Later published as Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings (New York: Dover, 1966).

      W [volume #:page #] Writings of Charles S. Peirce (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982–).

      WMS [list #] A Peirce manuscript listed in the Chronological List published in W1–W5.

      Introduction

      The period from the spring of 1890 into the summer of 1892 was a time of emotional turmoil for Peirce, a time of rash ventures and dashed hopes that would culminate in a transforming experience and a new sense of purpose.1 In the previous decade, Peirce had suffered the loss of his teaching appointment at Johns Hopkins University and the stripping away of his leadership in gravity determinations for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He and Juliette had left New York for Milford, Pennsylvania, in 1887, hoping to find acceptance in Milford’s thriving French community. By the time he turned fifty, Peirce had been pushed from center stage and his native sense of entitlement had been crushed. When in the spring of 1890 he helped organize a debate in the pages of the New York Times on the soundness of Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary philosophy, he signed his contributions with the pseudonym “Outsider,” reflecting his increasing estrangement from mainstream society.

      Diagnosed with tuberculosis, Juliette went abroad in November 1889 to escape the cold northeastern Pennsylvania winter. During most of the winter and spring of 1890, while she convalesced in Cairo and in various СКАЧАТЬ