Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 8

1890–1892

Charles S. Peirce, Peirce Edition Project

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9780253056702
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Volume 8 of this landmark edition follows Peirce from May 1890 through July 1892—a period of turmoil as his career unraveled at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The loss of his principal source of income meant the beginning of permanent penury and a lifelong struggle to find gainful employment. His key achievement during these years is his celebrated Monist metaphysical project, which consists of five classic articles on evolutionary cosmology. Also included are reviews and essays from The Nation in which Peirce critiques Paul Carus, William James, Auguste Comte, Cesare Lombroso, and Karl Pearson, and takes part in a famous dispute between Francis E. Abbot and Josiah Royce. Peirce's short philosophical essays, studies in non-Euclidean geometry and number theory, and his only known experiment in prose fiction complete his production during these years.

Peirce's 1883-1909 contributions to the Century Dictionary form the content of volume 7 which is forthcoming.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Chronology
• Bibliographical Abbreviations in Editorial Matter
• Introduction
• 1. Familiar Letters about the Art of Reasoning
• 2. Ribot’s Psychology of Attention
• 3. Six Lectures of Hints toward a Theory of the Universe
• 4. Sketch of a New Philosophy
• 5. [On Framing Philosophical Theories]
• 6. The Non-Euclidean Geometry Made Easy
• 7. Review of Jevons’s Pure Logic
• 8. Review of Carus’s Fundamental Problems
• 9. Review of Muir’s The Theory of Determinants
• 10. Review of Fraser’s Locke
• 11. [Notes on the First Issue of the Monist]
• 12. My Life
• 13. Note on Pythagorean Triangles
• 14. Hints toward the Invention of a Scale-Table
• 15. Logical Studies of the Theory of Numbers
• 16. Promptuarium of Analytical Geometry
• 17. Boolian Algebra
• 18. Boolian Algebra. First Lection
• 19. Notes on the Question on the Existence of an External World
• 20. [Note on Kant’s Refutation of Idealism]
• 21. [Notes on Consciousness]
• The Monist Metaphysical Project
• Studies on the Algebra of the Copula
• Editorial Symbols
• Annotations
• Bibliography of Peirce’s References
• Chronological Catalog, May 1890–July 1892
• Supplementary Catalog Entries
• Essay on Editorial Theory and Method
• Textual Apparatus
• Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text
• Index