The pragmatic maxim: essays on Peirce and pragmatism

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012)
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Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers.

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‘The Form of a Relation’: Peirce and Mathematical Structuralism

Mathematics raises a number of problems for pragmatist philosophers: how can pragmatists tolerate concepts such as numbers?; how can we apply the pragmatic maxim to clarify mathematical concepts?; of abstract objects and our knowledge of them?; and how can we obtain mathematical knowledge ... see more

Pragmatism and the Given: C. I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce

C. I. Lewis’s book, Mind and the World Order, introduced the distinction between ‘the given’, the immediate data which are presented to the mind and its interpretation through the use of concepts. This reflected the influence of Kant upon Lewis. Lewis’s conception of the given is commonly ... see more

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