Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 6: 1886-1890

Volume 6 of this landmark edition contains 66 writings mainly from the unsettled period in Peirce's life just after he moved from New York to Milford, Pennsylvania, followed shortly afterward by the death of his mother. The writings in this volume reveal Peirce's powerful mind probing into diverse issues, looking for an underlying unity, but, perhaps, also looking for direction. Selections from "The Art of Reasoning" - a correspondence course in logic (1887) on science and immortality (1887) pendulum observations - report on Greely Expedition (1887) logical machines (1887) the Peirce-Gurney dispute over "Phantasms of the Living" a guess at the riddle trichotomic (1888) reflections on the logic of science report on gravity at the Smithsonian, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Cornell (1889) logic of number c. 1889) the formal classification of relations (c. 1889) sketch of a new philosophy (1890) Herbert Spencer's philosophy - is it unscientific and unsound? (1890) outside wants more light (1890) logic and spiritualism (1890) six lectures of hints toward a theory of the universe (1890) notes on the question of the existence of an external world (c. 1890). This series contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief historical and biographical introduction, extensive editorial and textual notes, and a full chronological list of all of Peirce's writings, published and unpublished, during the period covered There is a very convenient system of signs by which very intricate problems of reasoning can be solved.