Late Peirce

The Life and Thought of Charles S. Peirce from 1900-1914

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Dinda L. Gorlée

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040688540
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Logic in Philosophy

This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a 15-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume devoted to this period of Peirce's philosophical work.

Peirce moved to the house he named Arisbe in Milford, Pennsylvania, in 1888. Here, he lived in relative isolation and continued to work on his scientific and semiotic philosophy. Peirce developed a modern logic that was influenced by changes he saw in the interdisciplinary study of science and technology, transforming his Pragmatism into his Pragmaticism. This action regarding Pragmaticism was a reaction against the downfall of deductive logic, and led Peirce to believe in the vagueness ("would-be") of logical realism in deduction and later abduction. In Peirce's later phase, he situated the "new" mathematics as a labyrinth of semiotic signs through which the quasi-mind of the logician could find a specialized sense to intuit the evolutionary semiosis of reality. The chapters in this volume examine all major dimensions of his thought during this period.

Late Peirce will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in Peirce, American philosophy, pragmatism, logic, and semiotics.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The Telos of Peirce’s Late Thought
• 2 A Mind on Fire: The Late Peirce
• 3 The Late Peirce’s Turn to the Normative Sciences
• 4 Peirce’s Semiotic Grounding of Pragmatism: A Look at 1907 Manuscript R318
• 5 Peirce’s Late Lexicography: Baldwin’s Dictionary (1900–1901)
• 6 Pragmaticism as a Doctrine of Applied Sciences
• 7 Toward Peirce’s Later Version of Symbolic Logic: Transforming Experimental Language into Algebraic Graphs
• 8 The Correspondence between Peirce and Welby, Two (In)actual Philosophers
• 9 The Semiotic Morphology of Problem-Solving: A Framework Based on Peirce’s Ten Classes of Signs
• 10 Understanding Peirce’s “A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God” of 1908
• 11 Musement as the Platform for Instinctual Abductions: Logical Interpretants as Progenitors of Phenomenological Thirdness
• 12 C. S. Peirce’s Answers to the Anthropocene
• Index