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Peirce and the threat of nominalism /
"Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehens...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
Ã2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nominalism as demonic doctrine
- Logic, philosophy and the special sciences
- Continuity and the problem of universals
- Continuity and meaning: Peirce's pragmatic maxim
- Logical foundations of Peirce's pragmatic maxim
- Experience and its role in inquiry
- Inquiry as self-corrective
- Theories of truth: Peirce versus the nominalists
- Order out of chaos: Peirce's evolutionary cosmology
- A universe of chance: foundations of Peirce's indeterminism
- From inquiry to ethics: the pursuit of truth as moral ideal.