What can I learn from Charles Sanders Peirce?

Gregory July 19, 2020 at 02:12 3450 views 9 comments

Hi,

Several writers have suggested to me that I read some of Peirce's writings. The question that is On my mind today is how objects interact. There is force and energy. I.am not sure which is greater or how they are the same. If I get in a fender bender, I feel force. Descartes would tell me I felt only the atoms of the car. If force is a way ofg speaking about an object, where does that leave energy?

Where can I get works by him on the philosophy of nature is what I am basically asking. Thank you

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Banno July 19, 2020 at 03:11 #435724 0 likes

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ssu July 19, 2020 at 15:27 #435827 0 likes

Gregory, I would also love to know more about Charles Sanders Peirce and pragmatism and the few quotes that the professor at the history of philosophy lecture at the university gave decades ago left me wanting to know more about Peirce and pragmatism. There isn't much about him in the local library.

As an "amateur" philosopher, if any have good articles, talks, lectures etc. that can be linked about Peirce, I would also love them. I have heard the problem is that he didn't publish much.

Besides, Peirce is one of those philosophers that the USA has contributed to the World.

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Gregory July 20, 2020 at 05:26 #435973 0 likes

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I'm not sure he published anything, but I'm under the impression his private writings have been out together in many volumes. I'm a book person and not adapt at surfing the internet

creativesoul July 20, 2020 at 05:41 #435977 0 likes

Reply to Gregory

Call the Green Apple bookstore in San Francisco, California. If you're lucky, they'll have something in their rare books collection. A few years back they had several volumes of some extremely rare set or other.

apokrisis July 20, 2020 at 09:56 #436007 0 likes

Reply to Gregory Cheryl Misak has been doing very readable accounts of what Peirce is about and his legacy - Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)

She sums it up in this youtube lecture - https://youtu.be/nQuNWNjYcVY

Possibility July 20, 2020 at 11:30 #436022 0 likes

Reply to Gregory Kindle has ‘The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) for AUS $9
ISBN: 0253207215 if you want to go hard copy. This volume includes The Monist essays.

His later writings - on signs and Pragmatism in particular - are in Volume 2 (ISBN: B005DI95GO)

Ciceronianus July 20, 2020 at 21:35 #436129 0 likes

Some of his works are available to be read here:
http://www.peirce.org/writings.html

More are available here:
https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/library/bycsp/bycsp.HTM

A unique thinker who had his differences with other classical pragmatists, James in particular. Dewey he came to respect, eventually, in some respects at least.

aletheist July 21, 2020 at 16:42 #436323 0 likes

Reply to Gregory
If you want to read Peirce's own writings, I would definitely start with the two volumes of The Essential Peirce. The tables of contents and introductions to both volumes, along with the headnotes for all the selections in Volume 2, are online at https://peirce.iupui.edu/edition.html. Besides the two websites that Reply to Ciceronianus the White mentioned, another worth checking out is http://www.commens.org/.

As for the secondary literature, my favorite overview is The Continuity of Peirce's Thought by Kelly A. Parker. Another decent option is Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed by Cornelis de Waal. A shorter treatment that focuses mainly on metaphysics is Charles Peirce's Guess at the Riddle by John K. Sheriff.

ssu July 21, 2020 at 18:00 #436336 0 likes

Reply to apokrisis Reply to Possibility Reply to Ciceronianus the White Reply to aletheist
Thanks for the names of the books and the given links!