Living Doubt: Essays concerning the epistemology of Charles Sanders Peirce (Synthese Library) (Volume 243)

__Charles Sanders Peirce__ (1839--1914) has often been referred to as one of the most important North American philosophers, but the real extent of his philosophical importance is only now beginning to emerge. Peirce's `pragmaticism' (his own term) may provide the key to an epistemological theory which avoids both the Scylla of foundationalism and the Charybdis of relativism. Peirce's `Logic', linked to a conception of knowledge and of science, is increasingly coming to be recognised as the only possible one. In __Living Doubt__, 26 papers are presented by some of the world's leading philosophers, demonstrating the rich and cosmopolitan variety of approach to Peirce's epistemology. The contributions are grouped under three general headings: Knowledge, truth and the pragmatic principle; Peirce and the epistemological tradition; and Knowledge, language and semeiotic. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 The Products of Pragmatism....Pages 13-24 Realism and Antifoundationalism....Pages 25-32 Foundations, Circularity, and Transcendental Arguments....Pages 33-41 Some Aspects of Peirce’S Theory of Knowledge....Pages 43-53 Determinate Meaning and Analytic Truth....Pages 55-65 Peirce’s Arguments for his Pragmatistic Maxim....Pages 67-77 Evolutionary Epistemology and Pragmatism....Pages 79-87 The Antinomy of the Liar and the Concept of ‘True Proposition’ in Peirce’s Semeiotic....Pages 89-93 The Relevance of the Concept of Relation in Peirce....Pages 95-102 Pragmatics and Semeiotic: The Peircean Version of Ontology and Epistemology....Pages 103-108 Peirce’s Epistemology as a Generalized Theory of Language....Pages 109-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-123 Peircean vs. Aristotelian Conception of Truth....Pages 125-135 Reason, Will and Belief: Insights from Duns Scotus and C.S. Peirce....Pages 137-150 Peirce and Descartes....Pages 151-156 Peirce and Bolzano....Pages 157-169 Peirce and Wittgenstein’s on Certainty ....Pages 171-186 Some Polish Contributions to Fallibilism....Pages 187-195 Peirce, Lakatos and Truth....Pages 197-208 Logical Intention and Comparative Principles of Empirical Logic....Pages 209-224 Front Matter....Pages 121-123 Peirce’s Puzzle and Putnam’s Progress: Why Should I be Reasonable?....Pages 225-235 Peirce and Davidson: Man is his Language....Pages 237-245 Front Matter....Pages 247-247 Peirce’s Semeiotic Naturalism....Pages 249-255 Perception, Conception and Linguistic Reproduction of Events and Time: The Category of Verbal Aspect in the Light of C.S. Peirce’s Theory of Signs....Pages 257-273 A Survey of the use and Usefulness of Peirce in Linguistics, in France in Particular....Pages 275-288 Color as Abstraction....Pages 289-302 Back Matter....Pages 303-324

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) has often been referred to as one of the most important North American philosophers, but the real extent of his philosophical importance is only now beginning to emerge. Peirce's 'pragmaticism' (his own term) may provide the key to an epistemological theory which avoids both the Scylla of foundationalism and the Charybdis of relativism. Peirce's 'Logic', linked to a conception of knowledge and of science, is increasingly coming to be recognised as the only possible one.
In Living Doubt, 26 papers are presented by some of the world's leading philosophers, demonstrating the rich and cosmopolitan variety of approach to Peirce's epistemology. The contributions are grouped under three general headings: Knowledge, truth and the pragmatic principle; Peirce and the epistemological tradition; and Knowledge, language and semeiotic.