Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes VII and VIII, Science and Philosophy and Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography

Charles Sanders Peirce

Edited by Arthur W. Burks

    BOOK I. EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE

    1. MEASUREMENT OF THE FORCE OF GRAVITY

    A Source of Error in Pendulum Measurements
    Six Reasons for the Prosecution of Pendulum Experiments

    Chapter 2. SMALL DIFFERENCES OF SENSATION

    Original Paper
    Later Reflections

    BOOK II. SCIENTIFIC METHOD

    1. SCIENTIFIC METHOD

    Science
    Logic and Scientific Method
    Scientific Method
    Simplicity
    Kinds of Reasoning
    Kinds of Induction
    Uniformity of Nature

    2. ECONOMY OF RESEARCH

    Original Paper
    Later Reflections

    3. THE LOGIC OF DRAWING HISTORY FROM ANCIENT DOCUMENTS

    Abstract
    The Theory of Balancing Likelihoods
    Criticism of the Theory of Balancing Likelihoods
    The Logic of Science
    Regularity and Explanation
    Abduction, Induction, and Deduction
    Three Kinds of Induction
    Abduction
    The Logic of History
    Application of the Method

    4. NOTES ON SCIENCE

    The Study of Great Men
    The History of Science
    Measurement

    5. THE LOGIC OF 1873

    Investigation
    Logic
    Observation and Reasoning
    Reality
    Time and Thought
    Belief
    Pragmatism

    Book III. PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

    Chapter 1. PSYCHOGNOSY

    Introduction
    Consciousness and Purpose
    Mind and Body
    Nomological Psychognosy
    Psychology
    Classificatory Psychognosy

    2. ASSOCIATION

    General Characteristics of Mental Action
    Contiguity and Resemblance
    Defence of Author's Opinions Stated in [Sec. 2]
    Psychological Truths Needed in Logic
    Theoretical Interest
    Experience and Inference
    Uncontrolled Inference
    Association and Inference
    Association and the Law of Mind

    3. HABIT

    Laws of Physics
    Non-Conservative Actions
    Relative and Absolute Motion
    Psychical Action
    Association
    Law of Action of Ideas
    Physics and Psychics
    Evolution of the Laws of Nature
    Chance and Law

    4. CONSCIOUSNESS

    Categories of Experience
    Forms of Consciousness
    Consciousness and Reasoning
    What is the Use of Consciousness?
    Synechism and Immortality
    Consciousness and Language

    5. TELEPATHY AND PERCEPTION

    Telepathy
    The Scientific Attitude
    Perception
    A Programme
    The Percipuum
    Conclusion

    Index of Proper Names

    Index of Subjects

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Arthur W. Burks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.