Peirce S Theory Of Inquiry And Beyond

Author : Thora Margareta Bertilsson,Margareta Bertilsson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
ISBN : 363158878X

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Peirce's Theory of Inquiry and Beyond by Thora Margareta Bertilsson,Margareta Bertilsson Pdf

About a decade ago, an antagonistic debate on the 'science war' arose on both sides of the Atlantic. At issue was how far the social sciences could intervene in disentangling the practice of science. The debate has now calmed down, but has by no means been solved. As a continuation of the antagonism that once haunted the advocates of Karl Popper against those of Thomas Kuhn, versions of this animated debate are likely to arise again. In this light, the theory of inquiry once launched by Charles S. Peirce may prove valuable. Despite early efforts by, amongst others, Karl-Otto Apel and Juergen Habermas, Peirce's theory of inquiry remains largely unknown in the social sciences. It is the aim of this publication - the bulk of which was written long ago as a doctoral thesis - to place Peirce's theory of inquiry in the centre of social science theory.

Author : Elizabeth Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826488994

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Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry by Elizabeth Cooke Pdf

A ground-breaking study of one of America's greatest philosophers

Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812205503

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Beyond Objectivism and Relativism by Richard J. Bernstein Pdf

Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.

Author : Cheryl J. Misak
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199270590

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Truth and the End of Inquiry by Cheryl J. Misak Pdf

Cheryl Misak presents a pragmatic account of truth. C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In the course of the past century pragmatism has remained one of the most significant movements in American philosophy. Misak's book is one of the landmark publications in recent pragmatist thought. She pays attention both to Peirce's texts and to the requirements for asuitable account of truth. This new paperback edition includes a brand-new additional chapter, along with a new preface and revis.

Author : Roberta Kevelson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027232892

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Charles S. Peirce's Method of Methods by Roberta Kevelson Pdf

In all disciplines there are specifiable basic concepts, our universes of discourse, which define special areas of inquiry. Semiotics is that 'science of sciences' which inquires into all processes of inquiry, and which seeks to discover methods of inquiry. Peirce held that semiotics was to be the method of methods. An account of semiotic method should distinguish between the way the term 'sign' is used in semiotics and the various ways this term was meant in nearly all the traditional disciplines. In this monograph Roberta Kevelson minutely explores Charles S. Peirce's method of methods.

Author : David L. Hildebrand
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826502575

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Beyond Realism and Antirealism by David L. Hildebrand Pdf

Perhaps the most significant development in American philosophy in recent times has been the extraordinary renaissance of Pragmatism, marked most notably by the reformulations of the so-called "Neopragmatists" Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. With Pragmatism offering the allure of potentially resolving the impasse between epistemological realists and antirealists, analytic and continental philosophers, as well as thinkers across the disciplines, have been energized and engaged by this movement. In Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists, David L. Hildebrand asks two important questions: first, how faithful are the Neopragmatists' reformulations of Classical Pragmatism (particularly Deweyan Pragmatism)? Second, and more significantly, can their Neopragmatisms work? In assessing Neopragmatism, Hildebrand advances a number of historical and critical points: • Current debates between realists and antirealists (as well as objectivists and relativists) are similar to early twentieth-century debates between realists and idealists that Pragmatism addressed extensively. • Despite their debts to Dewey, the Neopragmatists are reenacting realist and idealist stands in their debate over realism, thus giving life to something shown fruitless by earlier Pragmatists. • What is absent from the Neopragmatist's position is precisely what makes Pragmatism enduring: namely, its metaphysical conception of experience and a practical starting point for philosophical inquiry that such experience dictates. • Pragmatism cannot take the "linguistic turn" insofar as that turn mandates a theoretical starting point. • While Pragmatism's view of truth is perspectival, it is nevertheless not a relativism. • Pace Rorty, Pragmatism need not be hostile to metaphysics; indeed, it demonstrates how pragmatic instrumentalism and metaphysics are complementary. In examining these and other difficulties in Neopragmatism, Hildebrand is able to propose some distinct directions for Pragmatism. Beyond Realism and Antirealism will provoke specialists and non-specialists alike to rethink not only the definition of Pragmatism, but its very purpose.

Author : T. L. Short
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139461917

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Peirce's Theory of Signs by T. L. Short Pdf

In this book, T. L. Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce's theory of signs and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic philosophy of language, mind and science. Peirce's theory of mind, naturalistic but nonreductive, bears on debates of Fodor and Millikan, among others. His theory of inquiry avoids foundationalism and subjectivism, while his account of reference anticipated views of Kripke and Putnam. Peirce's realism falls between 'internal' and 'metaphysical' realism and is more satisfactory than either. His pragmatism is not verificationism; rather, it identifies meaning with potential growth of knowledge. Short distinguishes Peirce's mature theory of signs from his better-known but paradoxical early theory. He develops the mature theory systematically on the basis of Peirce's phenomenological categories and concept of final causation. The latter is distinguished from recent and similar views, such as Brandon's, and is shown to be grounded in forms of explanation adopted in modern science.

Author : Brandon Daniel-Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319941936

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Pragmatic Inquiry and Religious Communities by Brandon Daniel-Hughes Pdf

This book examines the ways in which religious communities experimentally engage the world and function as fallible inquisitive agents, despite frequent protests to the contrary. Using the philosophy of inquiry and semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, it develops unique naturalist conceptions of religious meaning and ultimate orientation while also arguing for a reappraisal of the ways in which the world’s venerable religious traditions enable novel forms of communal inquiry into what Peirce termed “vital matters.” Pragmatic inquiry, it argues, is a ubiquitous and continuous phenomenon. Thus, religious participation, though cautiously conservative in many ways, is best understood as a variety of inhabited experimentation. Religious communities embody historically mediated hypotheses about how best to engage the world and curate networks of semiotic resources for rendering those engagements meaningful. Religions best fulfill their inquisitive function when they both deploy and reform their sign systems as they learn better to engage reality.

Author : Peter Skagestad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231050046

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The Road of Inquiry, Charles Peirce's Pragmatic Realism by Peter Skagestad Pdf

Scientist, mathematician, thinker, the father of pragmatism, the inspiration for William James and John Dewey, Charles Peirce has remained until recently a philosopher's philosopher. Peirce trod a fine line between the extremes of nominalism and realism, tough-minded pragmatism and metaphysical speculation. As Peter Skagestad makes clear, Peirce's system of thought was fragmented, incomplete, and sometimes inconsistent. But one overriding concern gives unity to the whole: the road of inquiry must never be blocked.

Author : Vincent M. Colapietro,Thomas M. Olshewsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110873450

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Peirce's Doctrine of Signs by Vincent M. Colapietro,Thomas M. Olshewsky Pdf

Author : Geoffrey C. Bowker,Stefan Timmermans,Adele E. Clarke,Ellen Balka
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262331029

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Boundary Objects and Beyond by Geoffrey C. Bowker,Stefan Timmermans,Adele E. Clarke,Ellen Balka Pdf

The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues. Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker revealed the social and ethical histories that are deeply embedded in classification systems. Star's most celebrated concept was the notion of boundary objects: representational forms—things or theories—that can be shared between different communities, with each holding its own understanding of the representation. Unfortunately, Leigh was unable to complete a work on the poetics of infrastructure that further developed the full range of her work. This volume collects articles by Star that set out some of her thinking on boundary objects, marginality, and infrastructure, together with essays by friends and colleagues from a range of disciplines—from philosophy of science to organization science—that testify to the wide-ranging influence of Star's work. Contributors Ellen Balka, Eevi E. Beck, Dick Boland, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Janet Ceja Alcalá, Adele E. Clarke, Les Gasser, James R. Griesemer, Gail Hornstein, John Leslie King, Cheris Kramarae, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Karen Ruhleder, Kjeld Schmidt, Brian Cantwell Smith, Susan Leigh Star, Anselm L. Strauss, Jane Summerton, Stefan Timmermans, Helen Verran, Nina Wakeford, Jutta Weber

Author : Margareta Bertilsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Pragmatismus
ISBN : UCAL:B2705839

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Towards a Social Reconstruction of Science Theory by Margareta Bertilsson Pdf

Author : Elias Khalil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135996680

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Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology by Elias Khalil Pdf

The first book that looks at Dewey and Economic Methodology, this intriguing new book contains contributions from economists and philosophers from a wide range of perspectives.

Author : James JakÃ3b Liszka
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism & Collections
ISBN : 0253116112

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A General Introduction to the Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce by James JakÃ3b Liszka Pdf

"This definitive text is the single best work on Peirce's semeiotic (as Peirce would have spelled it) allowing scholars to extrapolate beyond Peirce or to apply him to new areas..." -- Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter "... indispensable introduction to Peirce's semiotics." -- Teaching Philosophy "Both for students new to Peirce and for the advanced student, this is an excellent and unique reference book. It should be available in libraries at all... colleges and universities." -- Choice "The best and most balanced full account of Peirce's semiotic which contributes not only to semiotics but to philosophy. Liszka's book is the sourcebook for scholars in general." -- Nathan Houser Although 19th-century philosopher and scientist Charles Sanders Peirce was a prolific writer, he never published his work on signs in any organized fashion, making it difficult to grasp the scope of his thought. In this book, Liszka presents a systematic and comprehensive acount of Peirce's theory, including the role of semiotic in the system of sciences, with a detailed analysis of its three main branches -- grammar, critical logic, and universal rhetoric.

Author : Douglas Greenlee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886443

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Peirce’s Concept of Sign by Douglas Greenlee Pdf

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