Volume 8 of this landmark edition follows Peirce from May 1890 through July 1892—a period of turmoil as his career unraveled at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The loss of his principal source of income meant the beginning of permanent penury and a lifelong struggle to find gainful employment. His key achievement during these years is his celebrated Monist metaphysical project, which consists of five classic articles on evolutionary cosmology. Also included are reviews and essays from The Nation in which Peirce critiques Paul Carus, William James, Auguste Comte, Cesare Lombroso, and Karl Pearson, and takes part in a famous dispute between Francis E. Abbot and Josiah Royce. Peirce's short philosophical essays, studies in non-Euclidean geometry and number theory, and his only known experiment in prose fiction complete his production during these years.
Author(s): Charles S. Peirce
Edition: 1
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 824
City: Bloomington
Contents......Page 9
Illustrations......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Chronology......Page 20
Bibliographical Abbreviations in Editorial Matter......Page 24
Introduction......Page 26
1. Familiar Letters about the Art of Reasoning......Page 102
2. Ribot’s Psychology of Attention......Page 114
3. Six Lectures of Hints toward a Theory of the Universe......Page 118
4. Sketch of a New Philosophy......Page 120
5. [On Framing Philosophical Theories]......Page 124
7. Review of Jevons’s Pure Logic......Page 131
8. Review of Carus’s Fundamental Problems......Page 134
9. Review of Muir’s The Theory of Determinants......Page 137
10. Review of Fraser’s Locke......Page 139
11. [Notes on the First Issue of the Monist]......Page 143
12. My Life......Page 145
13. Note on Pythagorean Triangles......Page 148
14. Hints toward the Invention of a Scale-Table......Page 149
15. Logical Studies of the Theory of Numbers......Page 156
16. Promptuarium of Analytical Geometry......Page 158
17. Boolian Algebra......Page 164
18. Boolian Algebra. First Lection......Page 170
19. Notes on the Question on the Existence of anExternal World......Page 179
20. [Note on Kant’s Refutation of Idealism]......Page 181
21. [Notes on Consciousness]......Page 182
THE MONIST METAPHYSICAL PROJECT......Page 184
22. The Architecture of Theories [Initial Version]......Page 185
23. The Architecture of Theories......Page 199
24. The Doctrine of Necessity Examined......Page 212
25. The Law of Mind [Early Try]......Page 227
26. The Law of Mind [Excursus on the Idea of Time]......Page 231
27. The Law of Mind......Page 236
28. [Notes for “Man’s Glassy Essence”]......Page 259
29. Man’s Glassy Essence......Page 266
30. Evolutionary Love......Page 285
STUDIES ON THE ALGEBRA OF THE COPULA......Page 308
31. [Deductions from a Definition of the Copula]......Page 309
32. Algebra of the Copula [Version 1]......Page 311
33. Algebra of the Copula [Version 2]......Page 313
34. Examination of the Copula of Inclusion......Page 318
35. On the Number of Dichotomous Divisions: A Problemin Permutations......Page 323
36. Methods of Investigating the Constant of Space......Page 330
37. James’s Psychology......Page 332
38. [Morality and Church Creed]......Page 341
39. Review of Spencer’s Essays......Page 343
40. Abbot against Royce......Page 346
41. Review of Chambers’s Pictorial Astronomy......Page 349
42. [Lesson in Necessary Reasoning......Page 352
43. The Great Men of History......Page 359
44. The Comtist Calendar......Page 368
45. The Non-Euclidean Geometry......Page 372
46. The Sciences in Their Order of Generality......Page 376
47. The Man of Genius......Page 378
48. The Periodic Law......Page 385
49. Keppler......Page 387
50. [Plan for a Scientific Dictionary]......Page 393
51. Embroidered Thessaly......Page 397
52. [Why Do We Punish Criminals?]......Page 442
53. Review of Buckley’s Moral Teachings of Science......Page 446
54. Review of Ridgeway’s The Origin of Metallic Currency......Page 450
55. Review of Pearson’s The Grammar of Science......Page 453
56. Review of Curry’s The Province of Expression......Page 456
Editorial Symbols......Page 460
Annotations......Page 463
Bibliography of Peirce’s References......Page 571
Chronological Catalog, May 1890–July 1892......Page 581
Supplementary Catalog Entries......Page 612
Essay on Editorial Theory and Method......Page 616
Textual Apparatus......Page 633
Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text......Page 780
Index......Page 782
