Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

Charles Sanders Peirce

Edited by Charles Hartshorne

Edited by Paul Weiss

    Introduction

    Editorial Note

    Preface

    1. A Definition of Pragmatic and Pragmatism
    2. The Architectonic Construction of Pragmatism
    3. Historical Affinities and Genesis

    BOOK I: Lectures on Pragmatism

    Lecture I: Pragmatism: The Normative Sciences
    1. Two Statements of the Pragmatic Maxim
    2. The Meaning of Probability
    3. The Meaning of "Practical" Consequences
    4. The Relations of the Normative Sciences

    Lecture II: The Universal Catefories
    1. Presentness
    2. Struggle
    3. Laws: Nominalism

    Lecture III: The Categories Continued
    1. Degenerate Thirdness
    2. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics
    3. The Irreducibility of the Categories

    Lecture IV: The Reality of Thirdness
    1. Scholastic Realism
    2. Thirdness and Generality
    3. Normative judgments
    4. Perceptual judgments

    Lecture V: Three Kinds of Goodness
    1. The Divisions of Philosophy
    2. Ethical and Esthetical Goodness
    3. Logical Goodness

    Lecture VI: Three Types of Reasoning
    1. Perceptual Judgments and Generality
    2. The Plan and Steps of Reasoning
    3. Inductive Reasoning
    4. Instinct and Abduction
    5. The Meaning of an Argument

    Lecture VII: Pragmatism and Abduction
    1. The Three Cotary Propositions
    2. Abduction and Perceptual judgments
    3. Pragmatism - the Logic of Abduction
    4. The Two Functions of Pragmatism

    BOOK II: Published Papers

    I: Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man

    1. Whether by the simple contemplation of a cognition, independently of any previous knowledge and without reasoning from signs, we are enabled rightly to judge whether that cognition has been determined by a previous cognition or whether it refers immediately to its object

    2. Whether we have an intuitive self-Consciousness

    3. Whether we have an intuitive power of distinguishing between the subjective elements of different kinds of cognitions

    4. Whether we have any power of introspection, or whether our whole knowledge of the internal world is derived from the observation of external facts

    5. Whether we can think without signs

    6. Whether a sign can have any meaning, if by its definition it is the sign of something absolutely incognizable

    7. Whether there is any cognition not determined by a previous cognition

    II: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
    1. The Spirit of Cartesianism
    2. Mental Action
    3. Thought-Signs
    4. Man, a Sign

    III: Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic:
    Further Consequences of Four Incapacities
    1. Objections to the Syllogism
    2. The Three Kinds of Sophisms
    3. The Social Theory of Logic

    IV: The Fixation of Belief
    1. Science and Logic
    2. Guiding Principles
    3. Doubt and Belief
    4. The End of Inquiry
    5. Methods of Fixing Belief

    V: How to Make Our Ideas Clear
    1. Clearness and Distinctness
    2. The Pragmatic Maxim
    3. Some Applications of the Pragmatic Maxim
    4. Reality

    VI: What Pragmatism Is
    1. The Experimentalists' View of Assertion
    2. Philosophical Nomenclature
    3. Pragmaticism
    4. Pragmaticism and Hegelian Absolute Idealism

    VII: Issues of Pragmaticism
    1. Six Characters of Critical Common-Sensism
    2. Subjective and Objective Modality

    BOOK III: Unpublished Papers

    Chapter 1: A Survey of Pragmaticism
    1. The Kernel of Pragmatism
    2. The Valency of Concepts
    3. Logical Interpretants
    4. Other Views of Pragmatism

    Chapter 2: Pragmaticism and Critical Common-Sensism

    Chapter 3: Consequences of Critical Common-Seneism
    1. Individualism
    2. Critical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Common-Sense
    3. The Generality of the Possible
    4. Valuation

    Chapter 4: Belief and Judgment
    1. Practical and Theoretical Beliefs
    2. Judgment and Assertion

    Chapter 5: Truth
    1. Truth as Correspondence
    2. Truth and Satisfaction
    3. Definitions of Truth

    Chapter 6: Methods for Attaining Truth
    1. The First Rule of Logic
    2. On Selecting Hypotheses

    Appendix
    1. Knowledge
    2. Representationism
    3. Ultimate
    4. Mr. Peterson's Proposed Discussion

    Index of Proper Names

    Index of Subjects

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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.