Charles Peirce and Modern Science - Couverture souple

Short, T. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009223526 ISBN 13 : 9781009223522

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

In this book, T. L. Short places the notorious difficulties of Peirce's important writings in a more productive light, arguing that he wrote philosophy as a scientist, by framing conjectures intended to be refined or superseded in the inquiries they initiate. He argues also that Peirce held that the methods and metaphysics of modern science are amended as inquiry progresses, making metaphysics a branch of empirical knowledge. Additionally, Short shows that Peirce's scientific work expanded empiricism on empirical grounds, grounding his phenomenology and subverting the fact/value dichotomy, and that he understood statistical explanations in nineteenth-century science as reintroducing the idea of final causation, now made empirical. Those innovations underlie Peirce's late ideas of a normative science and of philosophy as a branch of science. Short's rich and original study shows us how to read Peirce's writings and why they are worth reading.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Professor Thomas Short is President, Charles S. Peirce Society, 1990, Chairman, Board of Advisors to the Peirce Edition Project, 2001-2010 and President, Peirce Foundation, 2006-2014. His book, Peirce's Theory of Signs, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009223526
• ISBN 13: 9781009223522
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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