Paul Forster

Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought and analyses his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780521118996
• ISBN-10: 0521118999
• Artikelnr.: 32869507

Autorenporträt

Paul Forster is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He has published numerous papers and essays and is the co-editor of The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations
Preface
1. Nominalism as demonic doctrine
2. Logic, philosophy and the special sciences
3. Continuity and the problem of universals
4. Continuity and meaning: Peirce's pragmatic maxim
5. Logical foundations of Peirce's pragmatic maxim
6. Experience and its role in inquiry
7. Scientific method as self-corrective - Peirce's view of the problem of knowledge
8. The unity of Peirce's theories of truth
9. Order from chaos: Peirce's evolutionary cosmology
10. A universe of chance: foundations of Peirce's indeterminism
11. From inquiry to ethics: the pursuit of truth as moral ideal.