Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy

by Carl R. Hausman

Overview

Hausman has written a book whose purpose is to present Peirce's evolutionary realism as his systematic position. The book follows the thread of Peirce's Pragmaticism from its conception, through the theory of signs, the phenomenology and derivation of the categories to the concept of Synechism, which Hausman takes as the heart of Peirce's evolutionary realism. This is a well-organized discussion of Peirce's work, introducing a continuity to his theories. This book is recommended for upper-level undergraduate philosophy majors and graduate students, as well as professional philosophers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521597364
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/28/1997
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The origins of pragmaticism; 2. Pragmaticsism and semeiotic; 3. The categories and the semeiotic; 4. Synechism and Peirce's evolutionary realism; I. Epistemological realist and metaphysical idealist; II. Spontaneity, synechism, and evolution: the realism at the foundation of pragmaticism; Appendix.