Volumes I-VI of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce are being reissued in response to a growing interest in Peirce's thought--a development that was prophesied by John Dewey when he reviewed the first volume of these papers on their appearance in 1931. Writing in The New Republic, Mr. Dewey said, "Nothing much will happen in philosophy as long as a main object among philosophers is defense of some formulated historical position. I do not know of any other thinker more calculated than Peirce to give emancipation from the intellectual fortifications of the past and to arouse a fresh imagination."

Charles Hartshorne is Ashbel Smith Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas.

Paul Weiss is Heffer Professor of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.

Read More by Charles Sanders Peirce:

• Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes I and II, Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logic
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes III and IV, Exact Logic (Published Papers) and The Simplest Mathematics
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes VII and VIII, Science and Philosophy and Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography

Read More by Charles Hartshorne:

• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes I and II, Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logic
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes III and IV, Exact Logic (Published Papers) and The Simplest Mathematics

Read More by Paul Weiss:

• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes I and II, Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logic
• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes III and IV, Exact Logic (Published Papers) and The Simplest Mathematics