Charles Peirce's Guess at the Riddle: Grounds for Human Significance

by John K. Sheriff

Book Overview

"Sheriff's text moves the "guess" to a new level of understanding, while integrating much of Peirce's philosophy, and provokes many questions." --Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newletter

"The purpose of Sheriff's work is to expound Peirce's unified theory of the universe--from cosmology to semiotic--and to discuss its ramifications for how we should live. He concludes that Peirce has given us a theory we can live with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253352045
• ISBN13: 9780253352040
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher