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C.S. Peirce on Mathematical Practice: Objectivity and the Community of Inquirers
What understanding of mathematical objectivity is promoted by Peirce’s pragmatism? Can Peirce’s theory help us to further comprehend the role of...
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Peirce and Łukasiewicz on modal and multi-valued logics
Charles Peirce incorporates modality into his Existential Graphs (EG) by introducing the broken cut for possible falsity. Although it can be adapted...
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Emerson on Thinking via Peirce and Beauvoir
In this chapter I explain Emerson’s conception of what thinking is in terms supplied by Charles Sanders Peirce and Simone de Beauvoir. As a part of...
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From Turing to Peirce. A semiotic interpretation of computation
The thesis of the paper is that semiotic processes are intrinsic to computation and computational systems. An explanation of computation that does...
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The Meaning of Firstness in Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Peirce
Notwithstanding the concept of firstness has been conceived by C. S. Peirce (1839–1914), its roots were already present in the past history of...
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Rorty und der klassische Pragmatismus (Peirce, James, Dewey, Schiller)
Richard Rorty gilt als einer der wichtigsten Repräsentanten des Neo-Pragmatismus. Der Beitrag stellt zunächst Grundzüge des klassischen Pragmatismus...
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Peirce, Russell and Abductive Regression
Below are reflections on Peirce’s conception of abductive methods and Russell’s conception of regressive methods. Along the way, it will be necessary...
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Searching for Chad, He Found Himself: Peirce, Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, and the Case of Lambert Strether in Henry James’s The Ambassadors
There is philosophy of literature, and there is philosophy in literature. This chapter is a study of the latter. Henry James, as the historical...
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On a Rhetorical Ground of Human Togetherness: Plurality and Mediality in Arendt and Peirce
Both in Arendt’s political phenomenology and in Peirce’s pragmatist theory of inquiry, plurality is rooted in the capacity to see that which for...
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Towards a pragmatist epistemology for theory choice in logic
In this paper, I outline a pragmatist epistemology of logic inspired by later work of Charles S. Peirce that shares many features with an...
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System, Sign, Information, and Communication in Cybersemiotics, Systems Theory, and Peirce
The chapter outlines cybersemiotics in relation to the research fields of systems theory and semiotics in general. It introduces and defines the key...
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Reasoning with Semiotics
This chapter will examine the work of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce that focuses on solving problems or resolving doubt using three...
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Deduction, Abduction, and Creativity
In a discussion of Sherlock Holmes’ “science of deduction” and the related “method of exclusion,” I show that Holmes’ claim that his inferences are...
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Conceptual Structuralism
This paper defends a conceptualistic version of structuralism as the most convincing way of elaborating a philosophical understanding of...
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Religious Hinges: Some Historical Precursors
Recently, hinge epistemologists have applied Wittgenstein’s metaphor of hinges to religious belief. The most prominent proposal in this context is...
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Inquiring Value: The Pragmatist Turn in Business Ethics
30 years ago, R. Edward Freeman levied an influential challenge against the “separation thesis”, which maintains that ethical and business concerns...
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The problem of sentience
Sentience, as the capacity to feel pleasure and pain, is often understood as a property of an organism, and the main problem is to determine whether...