Synthese 192 (4):877-879 (
2015)
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This special issue of Synthese on Peirce’s Logic and Philosophy of Language collects papers by Rocco Gangle & Gianluca Caterina, Chuangshen He, Risto Hilpinen, Matthew Moore, Charles S. Peirce, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Frederik Stjernfelt.Charles Sanders Peirce was a scientist, philosopher, mathematician and semiotician, as well as one of the undisputed giants in the founding of modern logic. He advanced virtually endless areas in exact sciences. He worked throughout his long career as a scientist, logician, philosopher, mathematician, and meaning analyst. As an advocate of developing and applying new methods and theories to improve logical analysis, his innovations included algebraic methods, quantification theory, semantics and pragmatics of communication, ethics and philosophy of notation, as well as comprehensive systems of diagrammatic logics which he termed existential graphs. Peirce held an exceptionally wide conception of logic, conceived as semeiotic, which he to ..