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  1. Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism.Paul Forster - 2011 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains (...)
  2. Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism.Paul D. Forster - 1992 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28 (4):691.
     
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  3. Neither dogma nor common sense: Moore's confidence in his 'proof of an external world'.Paul Forster - 2008 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1):163 – 195.
    (2008). Neither Dogma nor Common sense: Moore's confidence in his ‘proof of an external world’1. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 163-195.
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  4. Kant, Boole and Peirce's early metaphysics.Paul Forster - 1997 - Synthese 113 (1):43-70.
    Charles Peirce is often credited for being among the first, perhaps even the first, to develop a scientific metaphysics of indeterminism. After rejecting the received view that Peirce developed his views from Darwin and Maxwell, I argue that Peirce's view results from his synthesis of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy and George Boole's contributions to formal logic. Specifically, I claim that Kant's conception of the laws of logic as the basis for his architectonic, when combined with Boole's view of probability, yields (...)
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    The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce.Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.) - 1997 - University of Toronto Press.
  6. What Is at Stake Between Putnam and Rorty?Paul D. Forster - 1992 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (3):585-603.
    This paper is a discussion of points of agreement and conflict between Rorty and Putnam.
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    Peirce on the Progress and Authority of Science.Paul D. Forster - 1989 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (4):421 - 452.
  8. (1 other version)The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.Jacqueline Brunning & Paul Forster - 1998 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (3):769-780.
     
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  9. The Logical Foundations of Peirce's Indeterminism.Paul Forster - 1997 - In Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce. University of Toronto Press. pp. 57-80.
     
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    The Logic of Pragmatism: A Neglected Argument for Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim.Paul Forster - 2003 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (4):525 - 554.
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    Natural Knowledge and Transcendental Criticism in Scepticism and Animal Faith.Paul Forster - 2024 - In Martin A. Coleman & Glenn Tiller (eds.), The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith. Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 125-147.
    Forster explains how Santayana squares his commitment to naturalism with his reliance on methods of transcendental criticism. Rather than view naturalism and transcendental criticism as antagonistic, Santayana reconciles them in an account of human knowledge that he considers more comprehensive than either is alone.
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  12. (3 other versions)Acknowledgments.Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning - 1997 - In Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce. University of Toronto Press.
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  13. Contributors.Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning - 1997 - In Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce. University of Toronto Press. pp. 313-316.
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    First philosophy naturalized: Peirce’s place in the Analytic tradition.Paul Forster - 2017 - Cognitio 18 (1):33.
    A epistemologia de Charles Sanders Peirce parece paradoxal quando comparada a de Rudolf Carnap e W.V. Quine. Como Carnap, mas diferentemente de Quine, Peirce considera que o conhecimento científico reside em princípios lógicos que devem se sustentar para que o discurso sobre o verdadeiro e o falso tenha sentido. Ele também compartilha a visão de Carnap de que esses princípios são anteriores à, e independentes das constatações nas ciências naturais, uma visão que Quine notoriamente rejeita. Todavia, como Quine, mas diferentemente (...)
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  15. Introduction.Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning - 1997 - In Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce. University of Toronto Press. pp. 1-12.
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    John R. Shook and Paul Kurtz, eds. , Dewey's Enduring Impact: Essays on America's Philosopher . Reviewed by.Paul Forster - 2013 - Philosophy in Review 33 (3):235–239.
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    Objectivity in Science and Objectivity in Ethics: Quine Versus Putnam and Rorty.Paul Forster - 2017 - Philosophical Forum 48 (3):241-271.
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    Problems with Rorty’s Pragmatist Defense of Liberalism.Paul D. Forster - 2000 - Journal of Philosophical Research 25:345-362.
    Richard Rorty’s attempts to defend liberalism by appeal to pragmatism fail primarily as a result of his conflation of epistemological and political concepts. It is this confusion that leads him to defend unpalatable political views. Once the question of pragmatism is properly distinguished from the question of liberalism, it becomes clear that criticisms of Rorty’s politics have no bearing on his views of philosophy and, similarly, that acceptance of Rorty’s critique of philosophy does not commit pragmatists to his political views.
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    Realism and the Critical Philosophy.Paul D. Forster - 1994 - Idealistic Studies 24 (1):21-41.
    Many commentators on Kant’s views on idealism, such as Kemp-Smith [1918], Strawson [1966] and, more recently, Guyer [1983 and 1987], begin by offering two choices. Either objects in space are nothing in themselves, or they exist independently of all knowers and all thought. After a fleeting, adolescent romance with idealism in the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason Kant is often said to emerge a mature realist in the second edition. It is said that for the later Kant (...)
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    Scientific Inquiry as a Self-correcting Process.Paul Forster - 2002 - The Commens Encyclopedia: The Digital Encyclopedia of Peirce Studies.
    Peirce claims that the methods of abduction, deduction and induction are jointly sufficient for the attainment of truth, regardless of the state of belief from which inquiry begins. This article summarizes Peirce’s defence of the thesis that the scientific method is self-corrective and addresses common mistakes in its interpretation.
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    The Disunity of Pragmatism.Paul Forster - 2018 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 7:143-157.
    Pragmatism is usually viewed as a unifed school, movement or tradition. Lists of its most important tenets typically include advocacy of open inquiry, pursued with an awareness of human fallibility, a view of justifcation that appeals to shared experience in all its manifestations – aesthetic, religious, moral, political and scientifc – and a conception of philosophy as a practice interwoven with problems of contemporary life. While disagreements among pragmatists are widely acknowledged, they are most often treated as easily resolved or (...)
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    The Limits of Pragmatic Realism.Paul D. Forster - 1994 - Philosophy Today 38 (3):243-258.
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    The unity of Peirce's theories of truth.Paul D. Forster - 1996 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (1):119 – 147.
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    What Grounds the Categories?Paul Forster - 2008 - Overheard in Seville 26 (26):8-18.
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  25. What is at Stake Between Putnam and.Paul D. Forster - 2002 - In Alan R. Malachowski (ed.), Richard Rorty. London ;: Routledge. pp. 1--3.
     
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    Pragmatism, Relativism, and the Critique of Philosophy.Paul D. Forster - 1998 - Metaphilosophy 29 (1&2):58-78.
    The relativist strain in Rorty’s work should be distinguished from the Davidsonian strain. The latter may be exploited in support of Rorty’s critique of philosophy but it is at odds with his use of “solidarity” and “ethnocentrism”as explanatory concepts. Once this is recognized, there remains in Rorty’s work a consistent challenge to the search for general philosophical theories of truth, objectivity, and rationality (of which relativism itself is an example). On this reading, however, Rorty’s pragmatism is not a theory that (...)
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Paul Forster - 1996 - Mind 105 (417):190-194.
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  28. Christian J.W. Kloesel and others , "Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition", Volume 5, 1884-1886. [REVIEW]Paul D. Forster - 1995 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (1):224.
     
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    Book Review:The Fortunes of Inquiry Nicholas Jardine. [REVIEW]Paul D. Forster - 1990 - Philosophy of Science 57 (4):727-.