Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry: Fallibilism and Indeterminacy Contributor(s): Cooke, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826488994 ISBN-13: 9780826488992 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $227.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 191 |
LCCN: 2007296018 |
Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.99 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is very important at every stage of the history of modern American thought. It informs William James's evolutionary metaphysics, John Dewey's theory of logic, W.V.O. Quine's naturalism, and Richard Rorty's notion of the Linguistic Turn. Similarly, many Continental philosophers, like Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, Jacques Derrida, and Umberto Eco, have developed Peirce's semiotic logic as central to their own philosophical views. Yet until now there has been a yawning gap in the literature on what is arguably the most essential idea in the entire Peircean corpus, namely his fallibilism. The basic idea of fallibilism is that all knowledge claims, including those metaphysical, methodological, introspective, and even mathematical claims - all of these remain uncertain, provisional, merely fallible conjectures. |