Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry: Fallibilism and Indeterminacy

by Elizabeth F. Cooke

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 J rgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, Jacques Derrida, and Umberto Eco, have developed Peirce's semiotic logic as central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826488994
• ISBN13: 9780826488992
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"