Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism
Paul Forster
Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains Peirce's challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and shows its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics. It will be essential reading both for Peirce scholars and for those new to his work.
년:
2011
출판사:
Cambridge University Press
언어:
english
페이지:
273
ISBN 10:
0521118999
ISBN 13:
9780521118996
파일:
PDF, 1.50 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011