Peirce, Charles

Peirce, Charles Sanders. The Fixation of Belief. In Selected Writings, Ed. by Julius Buehler. New York Dover, 1955. 5-22. 

Peirce, Charles S. Values in a Universe of Chance. Stanford University Press, Stanford. 1958. 

Peirce, Charles S. Chance, Love, and Logic. Barnes Noble, Inc., New York. 

Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1931 1958. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Edited by Charles Hartshome and Paul Weiss. 8 vols. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. Perrin, Carleton E. 1973. Lavoisier s Table of the Elements A Reappraisal. Amfcix 20(1) 95-... 

See Francis Dagognet on Peirce, in Ecriture et iconographie (Paris Vrin, 1973) 43. Charles Peirce, The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Vols. I-VI, eds. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 19311935) Vols. VII-VIII, ed. Arthur Burks (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1958), 11 249. 

C. Hartshorn and P. Weis (eds.). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Vol. 5, Sect. 5.505. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1935. 

This physical conception of substance was questioned by scientific philosophers like F.W. Schelling, Charles Sanders Peirce, Emile Meyerson, and Alfred North Whitehead.10 With Bachelard, one might say that their critical questions introduce a chemical conception of substance into philosophy. For the chemist, the term substance designates first and foremost the particular elementary or compound stuff that stands at the beginning and at the end of a chemical process (cf. Bachelard 1968, 45,49, 60,70). As such, chemical substance is no hypothetical substrate but presents itself in chemical practice. Questions regarding its reality concern not its existence but how it makes itself known. Since chemical substance presents itself at different levels of laboratory experience, Bachelard posits a laminated reality for chemical substance— substance does not have, at all levels, the same coherence (Bachelard 1968, 46) ... 

See Latour (1999,142-144) on the relation between articulation and realization (a relation emphasized already by Charles Sanders Peirce). A metachemical stance has also been suggested in the later work of Feyerabend (1991, 507-521). 

Even though Charles S. Peirce was both a chemist and a significant philosopher, only a few papers in philosophy of chemistry refer to his work. Charles Siebert (2001) pointed out that Peirce s juvenile adventures in a home chemistry laboratory profoundly influenced his future development. Jaap van Brakel (1994) considered Peirce s Tychism —the doctrine that absolute chance is a factor in the universe (CP 6.201)—and concluded that Peirce s belief in chance was limited since he held that Everyone knows that chance has laws and statistical results follow therefrom (CP 6.606). On this basis, Peirce s Tychism anticipated recent interest in the practical importance of highly-improbable events (Taleb 2010). Also, van Brakel (1998) discussed Peirce s concept of natural kinds, and decided that Pierce s views are consistent with a form of pluralism in which the difference between natural and non-natural classes disappears (38-39) and that the ultimate end of inquiry must be pluralistic (41). He also included incidental references to Peirce in his book on philosophy of chemistry (van Brakel 2000). 

Moore EC, Robin RS (eds) (1994) From time and chance to consciousness studies in the metaphysics of Charles Peirce. Berg, Providence Nagel T (2012) Mind and cosmos while the materialist Neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false. Oxford University Press, New York Pasnau R (2004) Form, substance and mechanism. Philos Rev 13 31-88... 

Charles Sanders Peirce, The Icon, Index, and Symbol, in Collected Papers, ed. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University... 

Chiara Ambrosio is a lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. Her research focuses on the relations between art and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, American pragmatism and the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. She ties these research interests to broader themes in history and philosophy of science, particularly to debates around scientific representations and the visual culture(s) of science. 

Peirce CS (1931-1935) The collected papers of Charles S. Peirce, 8 vol. Harvard University Press, Cambridge... 

Causality is an issue that always has interested philosophers - from Aristotle and onwards. The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is known for his analysis of causation and for pointing out that while cause and effect are observable (physical), causation is not observable (hence metaphysical). On this, a later philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), offered the following advice ... 

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