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VALUES IN A UNIVERSE OF CHANCE:
SELECTED WRITINGS OF CHARLES S. PEIRCE (1839-1914)
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip P. Wiener
America's most versatile, most profound, and most original philosopher is represented in every facet of his work in this balanced selection, brilliantly edited by Professor Wiener. The father of pragmatism, one of the most influential of all modern philosophers, Peirce did not himself summarize his thought in successive writings; the gist of his message is scattered throughout his voluminous papers. It is especially valuable to have an incisive' collection of this kind, therefore, to acquaint a large audience with Peirce's great work.
This volume reveals why it has been said that Peirce, occupying a pivotal place in modern philosophy, stood philosophy on its feet again, when it had been found upturned among the ruins of Cartesianism. "A great philosopher of the stature and encyclopedic sweep of a Leibniz," Peirce's virtually unmatched knowledge of the sciences gave his scientific philosophy a firm basis; his insights into the nature of scientific inquiry constitute perhaps his greatest contribution to thought. In addition, the present selection shows adequately a side of Peirce usually neglected-his historical, humanistic interests.
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Title Values in a Universe of Chance
Author Charles S. Peirce and Philip Wiener
Editor Philip Wiener
Publisher Stanford University Press 1958
ISBN 080473755X, 9780804737555
Contents
The Place of Our Age in the History of Civilization 3
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man 15
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities 39
Critical Review of Berkeleys Idealism 73
A Philosophy of Science 89
The Fixation of Belief 91
How to Make Our Ideas Clear 113
Notes on Positivism 137
The Architecture of Theories 142
The Doctrine of Necessity 160
What Pragmatism Is 180
Issues of Pragmaticism 203
Lessons of the History of Science 227
Lowell Lectures on the History of Science 233
Kepler 250
Conclusion of the History of Science Lectures 257
Notes 261
The Centurys Great Men in Science 265
Letters to Samuel P Langley and Hume on Miracles and Laws of Nature 275
Research and Teaching in Physics 325
Definition and Function of a University 331
Logic of Mathematics in Relation to Education 338
Science and Immortality 345
Letters to Lady Welby 380
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stanford press, pragmaticism, C. S. Peirce, Lady Welby, necessitarian, nominalistic, logic of relatives, metaphysical, semeiotic, Descartes, Pythagoras, Ockhamists, mechanical philosophy, Aristotle, Existential Graphs, syllogism, Pythagoreans, Monist, Leibniz, cognition, dyadic relations 
