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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2016
Print publication year:
2016
Online ISBN:
9781316676240
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316676240
Subjects:
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Philosophy
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is regarded as the founding father of pragmatism and a key figure in the development of American philosophy, yet his practical philosophy remains under-acknowledged and misinterpreted. In this book, Richard Atkins argues that Peirce did in fact have developed and systematic views on ethics, on religion, and on how to live, and that these views are both plausible and relevant. Drawing on a controversial lecture that Peirce delivered in 1898 and related works, he examines Peirce's theories of sentiment and instinct, his defence of the rational acceptability of religious belief, his analysis of self-controlled action, and his pragmatic account of practical ethics, showing how he developed his views and how they interact with those of his great contemporary William James. This study will be essential for scholars of Peirce and for those interested in American philosophy, pragmatism, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of action, and ethics.

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Abbreviated References

CP:

Peirce, Charles. 1931–58. Collected Papers. 8 vols. Ed. Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss, and Arthur Burks. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

CWJ:

James, William. 2000. The Correspondence of William James. Vol. 8. 1895–June 1899. Ed. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

EP:

Peirce, Charles. 1992 and 1998. The Essential Peirce. 2 vols. Ed. Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel and The Peirce Edition Project. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

HP:

Peirce, Charles. 1985. Historical Perspectives on Peirce’s Logic of Science. Ed. Carolyn Eisele. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton

NEM:

Peirce, Charles. 1979. New Elements of Mathematics. 4 vols. Ed. Carolyn Eisele. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.

PPM:

Peirce, Charles. 1997. Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking. Ed. Patricia Ann Turrisi. Albany: State University of New York Press.

R:

Peirce, Charles. The Charles S. Peirce Manuscripts. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library at Harvard University. Citations are by manuscript number (as assigned in Robin 1967 and 1971) and, where available, page number.

RLT:

Peirce, Charles. 1992. Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

SS:

Peirce, Charles and Lady Victoria Welby. 1977. Semiotic and Significs. Ed. Charles S. Hardwick. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

W:

Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1982–Present. The Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition. Ed. The Peirce Edition Project. 8 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

WWJ:

James, William. 1975–1998. The Works of William James. Ed. Frederick H. Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, and Ignas K. Skrupskelis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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