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Charles Peirce and Modern Science

Charles Peirce and Modern Science

Short, T. L.

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1009223542
ISBN13: 9781009223546
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 15 2022
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book, T. L. Short places the notorious difficulties of Peirce's important writings in a more productive light, arguing that he wrote philosophy as a scientist, by framing conjectures intended to be refined or superseded in the inquiries they initiate. He argues also that Peirce held that the methods and metaphysics of modern science are amended as inquiry progresses, making metaphysics a branch of empirical knowledge. Additionally, Short shows that Peirce's scientific work expanded empiricism on empirical grounds, grounding his phenomenology and subverting the fact/value dichotomy, and that he understood statistical explanations in nineteenth-century science as reintroducing the idea of final causation, now made empirical. Those innovations underlie Peirce's late ideas of a normative science and of philosophy as a branch of science. Short's rich and original study shows us how to read Peirce's writings and why they are worth reading.

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