Critical Edition of the Writings of Charles S. Peirce

FAIN: RQ-50161-05

Trustees of Indiana University, Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN 46202-3288)
Nathan Houser (Project Director: November 2004 to July 2008)
Andre De Tienne (Project Director: July 2008 to October 2008)
Andre De Tienne (Project Director: March 2009 to July 2009)

Publication of volumes 9 and 11 of the writings of Charles S. Peirce, and continued editorial work on volumes 10 and 12. (36 months)

The mission of the Peirce Edition Project is to produce a chronologically arranged critical edition of a substantial part of the writings of American philosopher and scientist Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914). The writings are edited for print and electronic media by a multidisciplinary staff with the assistance of an international team of advisors and contributors. The funds now being requested are for work on five volumes, three of which (W7, W9, W11) will be brought to publication. These volumes include a large selection of Peirce’s entries for the Century Dictionary, his lectures on the history of science, and his unpublished book “Grand Logic.” They represent a significant contribution to American intellectual history and philosophy.

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Writings of Charles S. Peirce, A Chronological Edition, Volume 8, 1890-1892 (Book)
Title: Writings of Charles S. Peirce, A Chronological Edition, Volume 8, 1890-1892
Author: Charles S. Peirce
Editor: André De Tienne
Editor: Nathan Houser
Editor: Jonathan Eller
Abstract: Volume 8 includes the writings Peirce composed between May 1890 and July 1892. The principal philosophical achievement in this period is Peirce’s celebrated Monist metaphysical project, consisting of five classic articles that lay out the chief operative principles of an evolutionary cosmology resting on the reality of absolute chance, continuity, and love, relieved against a three-category realism that ushers in Peirce’s objective idealism. Those five papers are published afresh along with four additional unpublished texts that enhance their understanding. The volume includes also eighteen Nation reviews in which Peirce critiques such authors as Carus, James, Comte, Lombroso, and Pearson, or takes part in controversy, notably the dispute between Abbot and Royce. Other documents appear here for the first time: philosophical essays, studies in non-Euclidean geometry, number theory, Boolean algebra, algebra of the copula, great men, classification of the sciences, and moral issues.
Year: 2010
Primary URL: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=207993
Primary URL Description: Link to the IUP webpage for this volume.
Access Model: Volume sold by Indiana University Press. Found in university libraries across the nation.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780253372086

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