Charles S. Peirce, 1839-1914 : an intellectual biography

124 Pages·1990·5.329 MB·English

by  Gérard Deledalle

CHARLES S. PEIRCE
AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY

CHARLES S. PEIRCE
AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY
GÉRARD DELEDALLE
Translated from French and introduced by
SUSAN PETRILLI
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA
1990
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Deledalle, Gérard.
[Charles S. Peirce, phénoménologue et sémioticien. English]
Charles S. Peirce, 1839-1914 : an intellectual biography / Gérard Deledalle : translated
from French and introduced by Susan Petrilli.
p. cm.
Translation of: Charles S. Peirce, phénoménologue et sémioticien.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914. I. Title.
B945.P44D42 1990
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[B] 89-35843
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By the same author
On American thought
"La psychologie expérimentale américaine" (American Experimental
Psychology) in La psychologie contemporaine, in collab. with Paul
Foulquié, P.U.F., 1954.
Histoire de la philosophie américaine (History of American
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d'Homme, 1983. Second edition revised and enlarged, Bruxelles, De
Boeck-Wesmael, 1987.
On Charles S. Peirce
Ecrits sur le signe (Writings on Signs), collected, translated and com
mented, Le Seuil, 1978.
Théorie et pratique du signe (Theory and Practice of Signs), Payot,
1979.
On John Dewey
La pédagogie de John Dewey (John Dewey's Pedagogy), Editions du
Scarabée, 1965.
Vidée d'expérience dans la philosophie de John Dewey (The idea of
experience in John Dewey's Philosophy), P.U.F., 1967.
Logique: La théorie de l'enquête (Logic: The Theory of Inquiry 1838),
by John Dewey, presentation, translation and notes, P.U.F., 1967.
John Dewey's Unpublished Items, P.U.F., 1967.
Démocratie et éducation (Democracy and Education 1916), by John
Dewey, presentation and translation, Colin, 1975, n. ed. Lausanne,
L'Age d'Homme, 1983.

To Max Fisch, to whom Peirce studies
owe so much. I wish to thank him here
for the generosity with which he has
always put at my disposal the unpub
lished results of his detailed research
on Peirce's work.
For Janice and Myriame

Table of Contents
On the Semiotics of Interpretation: xi
Introduction by Susan Petrilli
Foreword by Max H. Fisch xxix
Presentation xxxi
Introduction 1
Chapter one: Leaving the Cave (1851-1870) 5
1. From Nominalism to the Critique of Kantian Logic 5
2. A New List of Categories 7
3. Against the Spirit of Cartesianism: A New "Realist" Concep
tion of the Thought Process 11
4. Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: The Nature of
Reality and the Social Character of Logic 19
Chapter two: The Eclipse of the Sun (1870-1887) 23
1. Journeys and Professional Activities 23
2. Formation of the Logic of Relations and the New Conception
of Propositions 24
3. Theory of Research 26
4. Mathematics and Symbolic Logic 36
- Boolian Logic 38
- Logic of Relatives and of Terms 39
- Propositional Logic 40
Truth Values 41
The Philonian Function 41
The System of Axioms 42
5. Discovery of Greek Cosmology 43
Chapter three: The Sun Set Free (1887-1914) 45
1. Arisbe 45
2. The system 46